The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man

Brueghel the Elder, Jan and Peter Paul Rubens; 2 ft. 5 1/4 in.x 3 ft. 9 5/32 in.; oil on panel

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man: Adam and Eve

Brueghel the Elder, Jan and Peter Paul Rubens; oil on panel

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man: Garden of Eden

Brueghel the Elder, Jan and Peter Paul Rubens; oil on panel

From the garden of Eden to the crossing of the Jordan,

"Given originally as lectures before the Egyptian institute and the Sultanish geographical society of Cairo in 1913 and 1917."

The garden of Eden and the flood.

Attempts to locate the garden of Eden in North America, on the strength of the fossil discoveries in the "Ashley beds" of South Carolina.

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, interior, left panel, Garden of Eden

Hieronymus Bosch; 7 ft. 2 5/8 in. x 3 ft. 2 1/8 in.; grisaille, oil on wood

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, interior, left panel, Garden of Eden: Fountain of Life

Hieronymus Bosch; grisaille, oil on wood

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, interior, left panel, Garden of Eden: Fountain of Life

Hieronymus Bosch; 7 ft. 2 5/8 in. x 3 ft. 2 1/8 in.; grisaille, oil on wood

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, interior, left panel, Garden of Eden

Hieronymus Bosch; grisaille, oil on wood

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, interior, left panel, Garden of Eden, lower portion: Adam and Eve, God the Father and birds

Hieronymus Bosch; grisaille, oil on wood

The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych, interior, left panel, Garden of Eden, center portion: Paradise with elephant, giraffe and tower

Hieronymus Bosch; grisaille, oil on wood

Androgyny versus Patriarchy: A Historicist‐Psychoanalytic Reading of Hemingway's The Garden of Eden and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White

This paper will examine how male and female character interactions in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White expose the internalization, normalization, and perpetuation of current modes of patriarchy in terms of gender roles through their presentations of androgyny. This paper highlights the parallels of gender construction and the interaction within the social relations depicted in these two novels, which have not been compared previously. The premise, based on the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan and cultural materialism of Raymond Williams, is that fiction reflects historical and contemporary social relations. Lacanian and feminist interpretations have both been conducted on literature written by Collins and Hemingway; however, neither look at these particular novels as two examples for the same contemporary phenomenon of 21st century patriarchal interpellation. This paper most similarly follows the work of Slavoj Žižek who analyzes contemporary social relations through film (including classics such as Casablanca and works by Alfred Hitchcock) and other aspects of popular culture. This project’s contribution and uniqueness lie with the way it applies theory to these particular literary works, specifically concerning gender relations and the prevalence of androgyny in widely read works by well-known authors in two very different literary and historical eras. My interpretation of these two novels provides an evaluation of historical and contemporary patriarchal norms and a radical potentiality for subverting the idea of static gender roles that has remained prevalent throughout the three centuries of these texts’ existence.

Sanitary conditions of a colony of urban feral cats (Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758) in a zoological garden of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The colony of urban stray cats living in the Rio de Janeiro zoological garden was studied in order to develop a population and health control program. As many cats as possible were captured during two months (47 animals) and were classified according to gender, age, weight and coat markings. They were submitted to a general health evaluation, examined for the presence of ectoparasites and sent to a surgical neutering program. All animals had a blood sample drawn for CBC, platelet count, heartworm and retroviruses detection. Capillary blood smears were made for hemoparasites detection. Coat marking and colors were tabby (59.7%), followed by solid black (17%); torbie (10.6%); bicolor (10.6%) and harlequin (2.1%). The only ectoparasites found were fleas, which infested 28% of the animals. The hemoparasites found were Haemobartonella felis (38%) and piroplasmas that could not be differentiated between Cytauxzoon spp. and Babesia spp. (47%). No cat was found infected by Dirofilaria immitis or FeLV (Feline Leukemia Virus), although FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) antibodies could be detected (21%). There was no correlation between hemoparasites and FIV infections. The estimated total cat population (mark-recapture method) was 59; 68% female and 32% male, suggesting that a neutering program is in fact needed.