{"title":"Dixon","authors":"B. Johnston, C. Brickley","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt20p59dp.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20p59dp.14","url":null,"abstract":"franchise outside Harlingen for four years. He knew he’d be fired, maybe arrested, too, but he also knew better than to give himself time to reconsider. He loaded the cases into his truck between customers. When the afternoon crew arrived, he went to the filling station to top off the tank. He checked his tire pressure and brake lights. Then he drove home and had supper with his wife, hamburger meat fried with peppers and onions. Afterward, they ate Blizzards he’d brought for dessert and he told her not to wait up. Dixon pressed his swollen knuckles to the cold paper cup and felt a soothing. Trish saw it, looked away. She said, “You’re doing all this for someone named Cornbread?” “I’m doing it for the money. Three grand A star-smeared night, the usual briny and humid haze of the brush country in August, and Dixon was hauling twenty cases of stolen toys up from the Rio Grande valley. They were in the bed of his truck under a blue tarp. He took care to drive the speed limit and flash his blinker. If the border patrol at the Sarita checkpoint asked, he’d claim a delivery mix-up. If the guards were white, he’d blame it on Mexicans. The toys had been slated for Dairy Queen kids’ meals, a promotion for a book series called Pegaterrestrials in which the characters were half alien and half winged horse, but that morning the office phone rang and a collectibles dealer had offered three grand for the lot. Dixon was forty-two and he’d managed the F I C T I O N","PeriodicalId":42372,"journal":{"name":"VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"467 1","pages":"150 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2016-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80826315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Statistics","authors":"Chelsea Rathburn","doi":"10.1142/9789813209077_0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813209077_0007","url":null,"abstract":"University and Departmental Mission: Seattle Pacific University seeks to be a premier Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community. The mathematics department at Seattle Pacific University seeks to provide excellent instruction to enable our students to be competent in the mathematics required for their chosen fields, and to share our expertise with the community through service and leadership. Hence, common goals for students in mathematics courses include 1) becoming competent in the topics covered in the course, 2) demonstrating skills and attitudes which contribute to professional, ethical behavior, 3) the ability to communicate mathematically, in both written and verbal form, and 4) learning to appreciate the beauty and utility of mathematics.","PeriodicalId":42372,"journal":{"name":"VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"7 1","pages":"53 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2016-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85230787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Worldly Goods","authors":"Taylor Antrim","doi":"10.4324/9781315259895-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315259895-13","url":null,"abstract":"embroidered on his work shirt, glanced at Sophie, who was staring at the rack of new waterskis inside the shop as if trying to divine their purpose. “Their left leg to buy it off you.” “Is that right?” “I could get you a tidy little bidding war.” “It’s all set?” “Like to have a day or two warning, but yeah. We got it ready.” Henry nodded. He’d called the marina from the road only hours before. They’d been at a gas station in New Hampshire. “Fifty-fives in good condition are extremely rare, Mr. Garfield.” Henry liked that—the Mr. Garfield bit. He recalled this man addressing his father that way, with the same intonation, the same headdip of deference. I t was a beautiful little motorboat; Henry didn’t need anyone to tell him that. There it was, rocking gently in its marina slip, a 1955 Penn Yan wood-and-canvas Trailboat, fourteen feet, brass fittings, a short-planked deck, three gunwale-to-gunwale benches. Seeing it for the first time in nearly five years, Henry had a crisp vision of his dad sitting in the stern on a flotation cushion, his hand on the little two-stroke Mercury outboard—ordering him to the bow to get it to plane. As a boy Henry had liked to crawl onto a bed of life preservers beneath the deck and let the hard smack of the waves lull him to sleep. “She’s a beautiful little boat,” the marina man said again—the third time. “Yep,” Henry said. “In fact, I know some guys’d give their left, uh—” The plump, fiftyish man, the name “Ben” Worldly Goods","PeriodicalId":42372,"journal":{"name":"VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"2 1","pages":"158 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81375116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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