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From Landscape to Body : The White Body in Contemporary American Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
"Whiteness," as both a field of study and an even an identity, has very often been viewed through its connections to postmodernity, most particularly with the assumption that whiteness equals a body situated within a ...
Evaluation of a novel bone-tendon allograft technique for rotator cuff repair [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Background: The rotator cuff consists of a group of four muscles that collectively are vital for shoulder joint stability. A rotator cuff tear is a condition common in humans, occurring as a result of impingement of the ...
Intervention/interruption [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
How does the body exist in time and in place? How is it that we recognize ourselves through memory or experience? And in defining ourselves as a presence in that space, how do we know where we are? ... For the project/pr ...
Smashed Brains in German Literature [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Depictions of dissevered heads and smashed brains are abundant in German Literature: starting from descriptions of violence in the medieval literature, to the splattered brains of Dr. Faustus in early modern times to the ...
Binding the body, binding the mind : the limitations of empathy in John Gabriel Stedman's “Narrative of a five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam” [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) is laced with discussions of cruelty -- to slaves, to soldiers, even to monkeys. Throughout, Stedman prides himself ...
E-community support for weight loss [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This is an exploratory study with a qualitative content analysis of the e-community forums to examine how these forums promote healthy eating, exercise, and social networking to encourage weight-loss. Two websites have ...
Dynamics of Gas Exchange through the Fractal Architecture of the Human Lung, Modeled as an Exactly Solvable Hierarchical Tree [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The acinar airways lie at the periphery of the human lung and are responsible for the transfer of oxygen from air to the blood during respiration. This transfer occurs by the diffusion-reaction of oxygen over the irregular ...
The Posthuman Body in the Works of Andy Warhol, David Cronenberg and Matthew Barney [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Today, it has been assumed that in the mixed reality of virtual and physical realms, the body is not perceived as a whole. The instances of how the unity and homogeneity of the body is challenged by technology come in a ...
The body and photography : examinations on the being [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
As a visual artist my choice of mediums in my research are the body through photography. My photographs show an elusive, immaterial reality that attempt to reach an understanding of the metaphysical world. ... My images ...
A Wealth of Absence: Visualising the Body in Winckelmann, Lessing and Blake [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (published 1755), Johann Joachim Winckelmann sets a precedent, through a series of metaphysical exclusions and affirmations centred on the nature of ...
Music and the body: modern pedagogical techniques for teaching Afro-Cuban rhythms [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Music is a ubiquitous part of our lives, inescapable and unforgettable. Its power moves our body, invokes peaks and valleys of emotion, and can cause vivid recollection of events long past. And why is it that an anatomist ...
Mere Shadows of Human Forms: Intersections of Body Theory and Literary Adaptation in Jane Eyre [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I have recently developed an interest in cinematic body theory and the ways women are presented in mass media. Although current scholars recognize the limitations of psychoanalytic ideologies of spectatorship, their works ...
We are not our faces [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
One of the themes prevalent in my work is that the notion of "self" as separate from "other" is a mental construct. According to our senses we are separate and on those levels, we are. However, if we examine ourselves on ...
Écriture Féminine : thinking the female body through writing [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Traditional feminist readings of Helene Cixous's theory of ecriture feminine have centered on the essentialist debate, overlooking the important contribution to gender studies her theoretical work constitutes. In this paper ...
Why Does The Birds Attack?: Teaching the Body in Hitchcock [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The body is a central feature in Hitchcock both in the way he shoots and cuts it and shoots and cuts it. True, his bodies are shot and stabbed; they fall off Mt. Rushmore, get chopped up and carried away in suitcases on ...
The Identity and Objectification of Personal Trainers [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The purpose of this study is to examine how personal trainers perceive their body. My research questions are the following: How does the structure or the focus of the organization affect the trainer's perception of their ...
Here and Now/Hear and (k)Now [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Funny, frank, informative and touching, "Here and Now/Hear and (k)Now" is a one-woman show examining female sexuality within the context of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) epidemic. It is presented through the eyes of a ...
What You Looking At Me For? : The Black Comedian as Fetish Object [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Through numerous descriptions of Africans and indigenous peoples, travel writing and other historical documents reveal that Europeans continually fetishized the bodies of the people they encountered. By thrusting the ...
Spying on Lazarus in the Cave: Keats and the Still Body in The Fall of Hyperion [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
If accepted for the conference, my presentation will be a critical exploration of John Keats' craft in The Fall of Hyperion, particularly his description of bodies. I contend that in his choice to describe still bodies, ...
Scratching the Surface : Female Scarification in the Nuba of Sudan [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This proposed paper presentation is based on research I conducted at the University of Florida for my M.A in Art History. My secondary area of interest was African art, and this will paper explore the treatment of the ...