Recent behavioral research suggests that empathic behaviors may not be limited to humans and higher-order primates. In mice, pain directed behavior appears to be modulated based on the presence and pain status of a ...
The prevalence of the internet has supported a vast expanse of online medical
information covering a variety of ailments, treatments, and prognosis. The extent of this
knowledge seems to promise a shared increase in ...
This thesis is about chronic pain. Mysteries and intimacies of pain elude analysis. Through ethnographic fieldwork and public health initiatives at the Coordinated Homeless Outreach Center (CHOC) in Norristown, Pennsylvania, ...
Control over sexuality is a way to maintain a social, political and economic power structure. While progress has been made, artists who are self-identified as gay, lesbian or queer continue to face hurdles in the art world ...
From conquest, New Spain was stratified along the lines of conqueror and conquered placing Spaniards at the top of society above those of Indian and African descent. A product of centuries of racial mixing, New Spain ...
Picasso spent the years of the German Occupation in his apartment and studio in Paris painting still lifes and portraits. Bracketed by such distinctly political works as Guernica of 1937 and The Charnel House of 1945, the ...
I examine the intersection of childhood and death in four works of modern French literature and film: La Maison de Claudine (Colette), W… (Perec), Les Mots ( Sartre), and Jeux interdits (Clément). Drawing on the French ...
In this thesis, I argue that a post-9/11 Hollywood blockbuster--John Favreau's Iron Man (2008)--and a series of 1988 television spots advocating the reelection of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet engage in parallel ...
Patterns in nature, light, and mathematics have always captivated and inspired me. Color is a vital part of any pattern, and varying its colors can vividly change the feelings induced in the viewer. I started playing the ...
This paper explores the complex desegregation process of movie theatres in the
southern United States. Building off of historiography that investigates regulations of postwar
teenage sexuality and recent scholarly work ...