Books by "John (Jack) Flynn"
9 books found
The Texas Criminal Reports
by Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals, Alexander M. Jackson, Alexander M. Jackson (Jr.), Sam Andrew Willson, John Preston White, Rudolph Kleberg, W. W. Nelms, W. C. Wear
1897
Hollywood movies are famous for promoting negative stereotypes of all kinds, especially against minorities, women, Southerners, and Christians. To what extent are biographical films selected for production according to certain biases, conscious or unconscious, among the Hollywood elite? An expert on the U.S. film industry gives readers brief synopses of Hollywood biopics produced and/ or released from 1912 through 1994. This survey provides the basis for discussion and analysis. Tracking these one-sided depictions over a longer period of time, the patterns of bias - and the source of the problem - become more clear. The problem appears to be that most of the people who have green-light authority in the U.S. film industry - for either the production and/or distribution of a motion picture - share a common ethnic/religious/cultural background. Thus, the stories of their own cohort and those of all other ethnic, religious and/or cultural groups (whose members seldom achieve positions of power in Hollywood) are being filtered through the cultural sensibilities of a single group. John Cones suggests that the solution could lie in increasing diversity at the highest levels in the U.S. film industry.
Wallace's Year-book of Trotting and Pacing in ...
by United States Trotting Association, John Hankins Wallace
1886
Follow the life of Jack Jeffery from his birth under a Kurrajong tree in country Victoria, to the hell of fighting the Japanese on the deadly Kokoda Track. On his life journey Jack finds love, becomes a shearer and a promising tent boxer. Through the ups and downs of life Jack learns quickly there is nothing more important than sticking up for a mate when he is in a jam. In the hell that was the Kokoda Track in WW 2, all his life’s lessons will be tested when he is faced by wave after wave of battle-hardened Japanese soldiers.
The ^AMechanisms of Reactions Influencing Atmospheric Ozone
by Jack G. Calvert, John J. Orlando, William R. Stockwell, Timothy J. Wallington
2015 · Oxford University Press
An overview of the chemical processes associated with the formation and loss of ozone in the atmosphere.
In the fall of 1950, I was a college student at Boston University. The Korean War had just begun, and while I had a college deferment, I felt it was unjust that other young people were fighting in Korea while I was in the classroom. Thus, in January 1951, I joined the army paratroopers with the hope of doing my part as a member of an elite fighting force. During a regimental parachute training jump, I was severely injured and later reclassified as a logistical support person. I was sent to the Korean War as a member of the Eighth Army. In this memoir, I provide readers with insights into my life as a soldier from basic training and jump school to my experiences in the Korean War. For the first time, documents from the National Army Records Archives and the US Army Transportation Museum are used in recounting the Korean War activities of my unit, the 513th Transportation Truck Company. These records are integrated with vignettes of my military life during the Korean War.
Most of these stories are from my life as an expat (expatriate—i.e., someone who works outside the US). I worked for General Electric (GE), and part of that time, I worked overseas. I have been on every continent (except Antarctica). I have had some part of my body in every ocean in the world and have been from above the Arctic Circle to just short of the Antarctic Circle. I have flown around the world several times and worked in over twenty-five countries. Whew! So much for that intro. I originally had these stories in a random order. (Whatever memories came to mind, I wrote them down.) But since then, I have tried to put these stories in the best chronological order that I can remember. There are some holes in the memories, some names can’t be pulled up, but I have done the best I can. Please enjoy. John
Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation
by John Brazier
2007 · Oxford University Press
With limited resources and funding, it is impossible to invest in all potentially beneficial health care interventions. Choices have to be made, and this practical guide allows the reader to measure and value the benefits of interventions, a key component of economic evaluation, which then permits comparisons between interventions.