117 research outputs found
Fifty Shades of Transformation
No full textDanielle Meeks explores the recent trend of publishing fan fiction, brought to the forefront by the popularity of the Fifty Shades trilogy. Creating a work within another author\u27s copyrighted fictional universe for profit is analyzed under the fair use doctrine and by comparing substantial similarities between Fifty Shades and the Twilight series to determine if the trilogy is transformative enough to survive a potential lawsuit
Critical interventions in Caribbean politics and theory
No full text"These essays by Brian Meeks, a noted public intellectual in the Caribbean, reflect on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies in the postcolonial era. But his essays also explain the peculiarities of the contemporary neo-liberal period while searching for pathways beyond the current plight. In the first chapters, titled 'Theoretical Forays,' Meeks makes a conscious attempt to engage with contemporary Caribbean political thought at a moment of flux and search for a relevant theoretical language and style to both explicate the Caribbean's recent past and confront the difficult conditions of the early twenty-first century. The next part, 'Caribbean Questions,' both retrospective and biographical, retraces the author's own engagement with the University of the West Indies (UWI), the short-lived but influential Caribbean Black Power movement, the work of seminal Trinidadian thinker and activist Lloyd Best, Cuba's relationship with Jamaica, and the crisis and collapse of the Grenadian Revolution. As evident in its title, 'Jamaican Journeys,' the concluding section excerpts and extracts from a longer, more sustained engagement with Jamaican politics and society. Much of Meeks' argument builds around the notion that Jamaica faces a crucial moment, as the author seeks to chart and explain its convoluted political path and dismal economic performance over the past three decades. Meeks remains surprisingly optimistic as he suggests that despite the emptying of sovereignty in the increasingly globalized world, windows to enhanced human development might open through policies of greater democracy and popular inclusion"-
Review Of The Origins Of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries W. A. Meeks
No full textAn absorbing and groundbreaking study of early Christian moral discourse. Meeks (Yale, and author of The First Urban Christians, CH, Jun\u2793) not only places the ancient texts in their specific cultural and religious settings but also calls on contemporary philosophical discussion to illuminate features of the emerging Christian moral vision. Since early Christians did not produce a systematic discussion of their ethical perspective, its contours must be discerned in its legacies--letters, testaments, moral stories, rituals--and in its charitable institutions and its attitudes toward celibacy, sex, and female roles. Meeks frames his discussion with two additional considerations. Conversion to Christianity meant radically separating from one\u27s past life and taking seriously the prospect of the end of the world. These viewpoints heightened Christians\u27 sense of being members of an alien nation. In addition, Meeks assesses the contributions from Jewish and Greco-Roman sources, as well as their similarities and contrasts to Christian ideas. This fine, comprehensive study should be a standard for many years. Upper-level undergraduate and above
I once was lost, but now I\u27m found Amazing Grace: Lost Again in the 21st Century
No full textMentor: Catherine Meeks
From the Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest: WUURD, Volume 4, Issue 1, Fall 2008. Published by the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Henry Biggs, Director of Undergraduate Research and Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences; Joy Zalis Kiefer, Undergraduate Research Coordinator, Co-editor, and Assistant Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences; Kristin Sobotka, Editor
Should Auditors of Nonpublic Companies be allowed to provide Tax Services to their Audit Clients?
No full textThis study examines the question of whether auditors should be allowed to perform tax services for clients that they also provide the audit. The question was examined by looking at bankers' perceptions of auditor independence, objectivity and reliability of the report on the financial statements when the auditor also performs tax compliance services for (1) the audit client and (2) company executives. We randomly selected bank loan officers from a commercial prepared list and mailed a questionnaire to each participant. Questionnaire results, based on 181 participants, indicate that bank loan officers believe attest auditors should be allowed to provide tax compliances services to the client even though they may be auditing some of their own work. Results also indicate that bank loan officers think that independence and objectivity would be impaired and reliability of the auditor's report would not be enhanced if the auditor provides tax compliance services to the client and the client's executives they also audit
Birmingham News sleeve BN0007869
No full textBessemer News / Fairfield Highlands Civitan youth center (six people in picture) / Locke Jones, and gun collection / Player of the week, Mike Meeks / All blank unshot film / Clement Taylor, author, seated reading book in front yard under tree. / Midfield All Star team which won district four action at Siluria this season. / [Work orders included
Accurate predictions of chemical phenomena in chemically reacting flows
No full textIn the past decade, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) community has put increasing attention on incorporating complex chemistry and physics into CFD simulations. However, for many practicing engineers today there is still much lacking in the effectiveness of reacting-flow simulation. Particularly in the area of combustion, the results can often be either too time consuming, or still too inaccurate to provide practical solutions for applications where chemistry details are critical. There are important alternatives to forcing such detailed phenomena directly into CFD. Such alternatives leverage CFD advances but also provide more effective and more accurate chemistry capabilities. These approaches build on reduced-geometry models that provide higher fidelity chemistry predictions, while establishing indirect coupling to the transport environment that is well predicted by CFD. The solvers employed in reduced-order models easily handle large chemistry reaction mechanisms and accurately resolve both trace and major species over disparate time scales. Links to CFD can be established through determination of zonal mapping to equivalent reactor networks or through table look-up methods. Central to these hybrid approaches is the continued advancement of the chemistry accuracy provided by reduced-order models. One area of particular importance is the combustion of large hydrocarbon fuel molecules that results in soot-particle formation. Presented here is a new capability for tracking the formation and destruction of particles dispersed in a gas flow. This capability has been incorporated into models for batch, perfectly stirred, plug-flow, and shear-layer flow reactors. A key advance is the incorporation of general, detailed surface kinetics in the description of particle growth and oxidation processes, together with poly-aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) condensation and particle coagulation. This capability allows kineticists flexibility in hypothesizing and testing competing reaction pathways to more accurately capture the particle-formation process. The implementation in reduced-order models further allows discrimination of important reaction and transport processes and, through comparisons with well controlled experiments, allows testing and verification of competing pathways in a more systematic way than previously possible
Learning to look critically: teaching and learning visual literacy in art and design librarianship
No full textTeaching and learning visual literacy within art and design librarianship presents several unique challenges. Librarians are better equipped than ever to meet these challenges with the help of ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, which provides an exciting opportunity to situate visual literacy within the contextual definition of information literacy for art and design students. In mapping these two documents together the author found several ways to address the more critical components of information and visual literacy in more nuanced and meaningful ways. While art librarians have often addressed visual literacy needs to varying degrees and in creative and practical ways, a more systematic approach is needed as we move forward.</jats:p
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