This study was conducted to provide Grenada, Mississippi an assessment of the current groundwater resources available for use from the Meridian-upper Wilcox Aquifer (MUWX), which is the primary source of groundwater for the city, by creating an accurate groundwater model. Public, private, industrial, and agricultural wells; springs; streams; and surface water bodies all exist within the study area. Groundwater data were collected from local, state, and federal agencies. Well locations, groundwater levels, and well pumping rates were all used in determining the aquifer's characteristics, such as, hydraulic conductivity, discharge, and recharge. Location of the recharge area in relation to a large reservoir was essential in determining the capabilities of recharge to the aquifer, which in turn allowed for a more accurate prediction of groundwater infiltration. Location of wells down-dip of the recharge area was essential in determining the discharge capabilities of the aquifer. This study proved that there is a direct relationship between the current use of the MUWX aquifer in the study area and the ability of the aquifer to recharge sufficiently in order to support its current use. In addition this study also proved that the aquifer would support a large industrial development in the study area and a substantial amount of new public development.

Many critics have conceded that Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is an ambiguous novel; however, the very same critics have often argued also that the novel’s contradictions are eventually resolved. It will be argued in this essay that the multiplicity of McCarthy’s text primarily regards a problematic of agency—a question as to whether or not humanity is a force to be reckoned with in the world. It will also be argued that this question takes the form of a dialectic that the novel leaves unresolved, and that this, in its turn, is an important feature of the text—a feature originating from contemporary ideology, from late capitalism’s contradictory-ridden relation to the ”Real”. Blood Meridian portrays atrocities resulting from the 19th century Westward expansion of the United States unsparingly; the reader gets to witness a violent subsumption of the indigenous population, and is informed about a nascent extinction of the buffalo. The text also implicitly discusses the difficulties of representing violence and suffering aesthetically; however, Blood Meridian offers no final conclusion regarding whether or not humanity—and especially the Western World—is ultimately to blame for these phenomena. Via an unresolved dialectic of agency, then, McCarthy’s text renders history both alterable and reified, mankind both agent and powerless instrument. The following essay traces this feature to late capitalism’s exhaustion of the Earth’s resources and animal life, its Western-centric subjugation of other cultures, and its tendency to interpellate Western “man” as the centered subject of the Earth, while simultaneously liberating this subject from the responsibilities that come with such a position. It will eventually be proposed here that Blood Meridian’s contradictions is the result of a text that seeks redemption, both by an evasive attempt to write humanity back into harmony with nature, and by expressing a declaration of Western guilt.

With the rapid changes in society, improvement of living standards, and better and better living conditions, people are gradually more and more attention to the concept of self-health and preventive medicine are deeply rooted tendency, so the concept of ¡yregular health checks¡z in the general population gradually has formed at heart. Health management is aimed at preventive measures, and let us understand the physical health status of ourselves. Before clinical symptoms of the disease has occurred, people can find the earlier detection of diseases to avoid environmental factors or to take the intervention of treatment in order to maintain the health status of individuals or control the disease continues to progress. But most people still do not understand their own physical condition. Knowledge of self-care is still so inadequate that we always wait until the sick before going to see doctors. Health management not only updates the concept, but also finds the right approach, especially in science and accurate health information. To understand what their needs is effectively continuing carrying out health management. This study investigated the innovative business model which combined cloud services and Theoretical meridian (meridian treatment apparatus has been commercialized). There are four elements linked with each other on a map of Application innovation. 1. The proposition of customer value. 2. Profit formula. 3. The key resources (assets). 4. Key processes, frameworks, and the practical implementation of the program. So that people can be measured at home (endpoint) at any time by simply operating through the Internet after uploading meridian instrument, and soon there will be a preliminary report for his physical energy to do health management. People will no longer be limited to wait for few days to receive health reports to learn about their physical and mental conditions after going to hospitals to have medical examinations which cost a lot of money. The health management platform not only brings convenience to people with the technology industry for traditional Chinese medicine to bring innovative business opportunities, but more importantly continues to let people develop good habits of self-health management and preventive health care concepts for long-term waste of medical resources. It also brings opportunity to human-beings to improve the concepts of the right medication. The advent of digital home applications is expected to be a pioneer. It can be self-health management platform and also a trading platform (the health care food, beauty products, health equipment, etc...). This will not only be opportunities but also reduce the social costs of innovation.

Thesis advisor: George O'Har / As an untrained and self-taught painter, Scottish-born and London-bred artist Jack Vettriano draws on his own experiences to create provoking paintings that are both successful and controversial. His works, described as “pulp fiction novel covers” and “railway posters” of the 1950s, encompass scenes of ordinary people doing everyday things. His most famous work, The Singing Butler, now outsells van Gogh’s Sunflowers and Monet’s Water Lilies in Europe and the United Kingdom. In this 2005-2006 senior thesis entitled "Prime Meridian: A Collection of Short Stories," I have attempted to put a narrative to select Vettriano paintings. Based on the belief that every painting tells its own unique story, I worked to discover what this story was for me, and what the images and characters in Vettriano’s paintings incited. A series of six short pieces, set in late 20th century England, describe the realities and defining moments of life. I have attempted to make these as close as possible to actual British life through research, interviews, and my own experiences in London’s East End. This collection begins with "Tube Tension," which tracks a man in his spontaneous engagement plans and through a turbulent London Tube ride. "Brick Lane" focuses not on the woman in Vettriano’s painting, but the scene behind her. It is a story about how we remember the past, and if these memories are enough to sustain us through present. "Street Noise," a story in which a young woman has flashbacks to an event that changes her perception of the media and the world forever. In "The Pier," a son has to convince his mother why he must leave her, his hometown, and everything he knows. "Know Guardrails" follows a woman who has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. "The Zoo" is a day in the life of a London pub worker. He is forced to the Coroner’s Office when someone who he has seen at a nightclub is found dead. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. "March 2003" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-118).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. "March 2003" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-118).

In this educational study, the student population at one of the state’s 15 community colleges was the target over a 5-year period (FY 2004-FY2009). Four variables (gender, race, socioeconomic status, and enrollment status were studied to predict if they had any affect on a student’s transfer grade point average. In 4 out of the 5 years in the study, this institution had the highest transfer grade point average as compared to native students at the state’s 8 universities. The purpose of this study was to examine the student population and look at four student variables to see if any were related to transfer grade point average. Over a 5-year period for this study, the number of women who have attended this community college has been 2 to 1. The number of students who receive a Pell Grant through financial aid is high. The ethnicity of the student population has also changed within the 5 years of this study.The first research question examined whether gender or race could predict a student’s transfer grade point average. The second research question explored whether socioeconomic status could predict a student’s transfer grade point average. The third research question asked whether a student’s enrollment status could predict the transfer grade point average. The fourth question examined which of the set of four variables had the most impact, and which one had the least impact. Race and sex were shown to have stronger relationships to transfer GPA. These variables only explain about 9% of grade variance; therefore, there are other factors that explain differences in the transfer GPA. The research concluded with a summary of the findings along with limitations of the study. Recommendations for practitioners and policy makers along with recommendations for future research were to study more variables, use other institutions, and perhaps to do a survey of the student population at community colleges.

The North Meridian Street Historic District, in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an area which still reflects the tastes and lifestyles of earlier decades in a contemporary urban setting. Listed in 1986 on the National Register of Historic Places, the district has been regulated by the Meridian Street Preservation Commission since 1971. The Commission, created through state legislation, was conducting design review in the district through nationally established guidelines, the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. In order to more effectively protect and preserve the district, the Commission wished to establish a set of design guidelines specifically tailored to the North Meridian Street Historic District and its particular built and natural- characteristics. This project involved developing a set of design guidelines that would fulfill the needs and desires of the North Meridian Street Historic District, its preservation commission, and its property owners. Each district has its distinct resources and needs. A district's unique built and natural features are guidelines in themselves, but unless the principles and relationships that they represent are translated into words and pictures, many people will not recognize them as such. After researching and analyzing the architectural and environmental qualities of the district a draft set of design guidelines was developed and presented to the Meridian Street Preservation Commission for review. In response to comments and expressed concerns made at a series of public hearings held from March 1992 to August 1993, several rounds of revisions followed the initial presentation of the guidelines. The August 1993 version of the guidelines was adopted by the Commission in September 1993 and is currently in effect. / Department of Architecture

In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the character of the kid and the novel's narrator and the ironies represented in the language and characterization of Judge Holden reveal McCarthy's critique by pointing toward the violence inherent in the language of myth. Along with this discussion of myth and ideology, I also analyze how the figuring of violence as sublime in the novel gets coupled with moments where characters exhibit either an unconscious desire for language or a marked absence of language. The significance of these moments, I contend, extends McCarthy's critique of the American mythos by undermining the Western genre's trope of the stoic hero while also exposing the ways in which the novel draws together the nature of language and the nature of violence. Blood Meridian thus serves not as a libratory revisionist critique that seeks to re-write the American mythos but as a much darker meditation on the ubiquity of violence—a violence that manifests itself all too often in textual form. / Graduation date: 2012

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