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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 ...
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 ...
The Suburban Body in American Modern Poetry [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Critics seem only recently to have taken note of the prevalence of the suburbs as content in American poetry. Robert Van Hallberg ends his American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 with a brief discussion of the poetry that ...
Look into My Eyes: Subalternity and Physicallity in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" She maintains that no the subaltern cannot speak. This is because the subaltern's identity has been constructed and shaped by western ideologies, and there is no space outside ...
Mighty Maidenhood: Medieval Women and the Attempt to Break Free from the Curse of Eve [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Throughout the middle ages, women were seen -- and condemned -- as daughters of Eve, representing the flesh and sexual desire. However, women were not left with Eve as their sole role model, since Eve has an exact opposite ...
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 ...
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 Rhetoric of Guilt and the Body [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Guilt is an emotion common to most individuals. It is also a less common rhetorical device used to persuade an audience toward making one decision or another. Yet, when we look at the history of rhetoric, Aristotle in ...
Rendering the Body: Creative Expressions and Body Projects [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This panel will consist of five graduate students from the Department of English: three poets (John A. Nieves, Liz Fletcher, Marc McKee), a fiction writer (Joanna Luloff) and a creative non-fiction writer (Robert Foreman). ...
The Logic of Recovery [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
"Body," as vague of a term as it is, can encompass any number of possibilities. My creative nonfiction essay The Logic of Recovery discusses the intersection of "body" as a physical, mental and emotional form existing ...
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 ...
The Discipline of Silence : Childrens' Bodies as Public Space [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I am a mother to two children, one eleven-year old boy in sixth grade and one nine-year old girl in the fourth grade. Their adventures through public school have been inspirational in this research, and have taken me to ...
The Death of Maternity : Decaying Female Bodies in Mary Shelley's Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In this paper, I examine the trope of the dying woman in Mary Shelley's early works, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and her short fiction. Critics are in general agreement that two of Frankenstein's essential subjects ...
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, ...
Producing the Body : Habeas Corpus and Closure in Burney's Court Diaries [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper is part of a larger project which investigates the ways in which eighteenth-century novelist Frances Burney's body of work (novels, plays, and life-writing) create a sense (or no-sense) of an ending. In this ...
What we can freeze from the body and why : a historical, physical, and mathematical introduction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The public often links cryobiology, the study of biological materials at low temperatures, with the science fiction of whole body and head freezing, but in reality successful cryopreservation of biological materials is ...
The Outer Space : Representations of White Bodies in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart uses white bodies to connote abnormalcy in African culture at the start of colonialism. Written as a counter-hegemonic strategical novel in response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, ...