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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
In confronting the influence of the railroad on literature and film, John Dos Passos’ 'U.S.A.' trilogy [...] is worth scrutiny. Written across the 1930s, 'U.S.A.' spans the first three decades of the new century and navigates ...
In 1998, women comprised 46 percent of the labor force and 49 percent of managerial and professional positions. However, in 1998 women made up only 11.1 percent of directors of Fortune 500 companies. In 2005 this number ...
This thesis examines the gender wage disparity in the fields of science and engineering, and the extent to which the burden of family responsibility affects salaries differently for men than for women. Previous research ...
I will argue that the notion of a partnership between the United States and Latin America is largely political naiveté because of existing power asymmetries.