Title of Document: PATTERNS OF SONG AND PREFERENCE VARIATION IN LAUPALA CERASINA AND THEIR EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS Jaime Leigh Grace, Ph.D., 2010 Directed By: Professor Kerry L. Shaw, Department of Biology Closely related species often differ conspicuously in secondary sexual characters, many of which may be shaped by sexual selection. Changes in these characters may directly influence specia...

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To promote video games, game manufacturers create official Web sites for their games that are designed to attract consumers' attention and push them to purchase. This paper examines the messages that these Web sites send to the public regarding violence, sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and racial and gender representations. Results show that male characters outnumber female characters, th...

This study aims to analyze the types of female characters in A Passage India by E.M. Forster and reveal how nature can emerge from females' self-consciousness novel. With an analytic-descriptive method, this article reveals characters’ women link each other their self-consciousness. There are three They stubborn arrogant ladies represented British officers' wives, a warm-hearted kind lady Mrs. ...

Species within Gennadas differ from each other largely only in male (petasma) and female (thelycum) copulatory characters, which were restudied in scanning electron microscopy and used as a basis for phylogenetic analyses. Twenty-six petasma characters and 49 thelycum characters were identified. All 16 recognized species of Gennadas and Aristaeomorpha foliacea (outgroup) were included as termin...

Abstract Sunset Oasis (2007), the winner of inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2008, remains one most important and intricate works by Egyptian writer Bahaa Taher. Based on true historical events, novel introduces female characters from varied nations social classes. In spite their differences, we find these women confined “margins” patriarchal societies portrayed novel....

In this essay, it examines the film The Birds and analyzes scenes necessary to advance men’s desires in film's presentation as a result of director screenwriter's unfair scripting arrangement female characters. These unequal arrangements were thought satisfy 1860s male moviegoer's desire for both power beauty, have negative impacted feminism that was gradually manifesting itself Hollywood films...

The authors investigated the relationship between cinema and psychopathy to describe and analyze the portrayal of fictional psychopathic characters in popular films and over cinematic history. From 400 films (1915-2010), 126 fictional psychopathic characters (21 female and 105 male) were selected based on the realism and clinical accuracy of their profiles. Movies were then analyzed by senior f...