Writing 20 (Spring 2007): Embodying Social Meaning Professor Marcia Rego This paper started out as the final research project for my Writing 20 class, “Embodying Social Meaning” taught by Dr. Marcia Rego. This four-month long course exposed me to the diverse and fascinating ways in which the human body has been used by different cultures to express their unique beliefs and traditions. Our readi...

During the Cold War, simplicity of Air Intercept Missile (AIM)-9 Sidewinder, as well its potential for growth, allowed it to continually adapt changing times. Whether destroying Communist aircraft facilitate U.S. national security interests, deterring Eastern Bloc aggression in Europe, or allowing allies seize air superiority during combat operations, Sidewinder represents a ubiquitous element ...

nation state to see this issue from the perspective of Japanese Kampo medicine. Japanese reformers in the early twentieth century shared the similar antiquarian fascination with the Treatise on Cold Damage and were even more immersed in the world of biomedicine than their Chinese contemporaries. They considered their attempts to revitalise Japanese Kampo medicine through their meticulous readin...

Neurophysiological recording of brain activity has been critically important to the field of neuroscience, but has contributed little to the field of developmental psychobiology. The reasons for this can be traced largely to methodological difficulties associated with recording neural activity in behaving newborn rats and mice. Over the last decade, however, the evolution of methods for recordi...