Is it men or women who work the most in slaughterhouses? Is it men or women who are most involved in domestic battering? Is it men or women who commit the most rapes? Is it men or women who vote for the most executions? Is it men or women ...

"o Captain! My Captain!" - Walt Whitman - 1865 Introduction The poem "O Captain! My Captain!," a meditation on the death of President Abraham Lincoln, was written by Walt Whitman in 1865, and included in his cont...

The first time [that one sees O Dreamland], it is like a blow in the face; the second, one approaches it with a kind of eager dread. For ten minutes it assaults eye and ear with a rough-edged but sharp-centred impression of this South Coast...

Shakespeare's strengths and genius come from his ability to understand and explore universal truths and emotions. This is one thing that makes his plays timely and unforgettable. The emotion of jealousy is one which is prominent in many ...

When William Sydney Porter had his first book, Cabbages and Kings (1904), published he had only six more years to live. But, with his identity hidden beneath the legendary pen name O. Henry, the fame of his short stories was already firmly...

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser. The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to th...

SOURCE: "The Wages of Virtue," in Chicago Tribune Books, November 21, 1993, pp. 6-7. In the following review, Polk discusses Amado's War of the Saints and states that "Amado has also found that his surest weapon against the related evils of...

A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long; Here's health and renown to his broad green crown, And his fifty arms so strong. There's fear in his frown when the Sun goes down, And the fire in the West fades o...

Along with towns such as Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the area around the Savannah River in Georgia, Oak Ridge is central to the history of the development of nuclear weapons in the United States. It has also come to represent many of the e...

The Oakland Raiders, a professional football franchise based in California, operates under the motto "Commitment to Excellence." Yet turmoil has been as much a hallmark of the team's history as high-quality play. Estab...

VOWS AND OATHS. With the vow to accomplish something, a person dedicates himself to the task wholly. Whoever takes an oath to accomplish something is required to answer for it, for he has named himself or some one of his belongings as a pl...

O.B. Hardison Jr. ( 1927-10-24 - 1990-09-02 ) was a poet, humanist, author, Professor of English at UNC-CH, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Professor of English at Georgetown University. Unsourced Logic is a carpet laid ove...

Obadiah Walker published many books on academic and religious subjects; his most popular work, Of Education, Especially of Young Gentlemen (1673), went through eight editions by 1699. He also wrote on optics, grammar, logic, geography (a d...

Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins (born October 28 , 1984 ) is a Nigerian soccer player who plays as a striker for the Nigerian national team, and for the English club Newcastle United . Sourced Things have taken time to get used to, the weather's...

REVIEW: "Obasan" by Joy Kogawa is a novel about the moving story of a Japanese Canadian family. It is based on historical events, and Joy Kogawa's own experiences. Furthermore, it is highly recommended for its artistry consideration of soc...

The word freedom is often associated with the idea of an unfettered liberty to select from a range of alternatives coupled with a sense that our actions will not affect our natural state. Catholic doctrine teaches that our choice is one o...

Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer was among the many students who passed through John Bach McMaster's classes at the University of Pennsylvania during the late 1880s. Under his mentor's influence, he turned in time--as editor, biographer, and histo...

An instance is an individual object of a certain class. A class is a template for and object and an object is an instance of a class. A few examples:Dog are a class of animals. Dogs represent the template and animals represent the object. ...

Book Review on "America in Vietnam, a Documentary History" By: William Appleman Williams, Thomas McCormick, Lloyd Gardner, and Walter Lafaber Word Count: 1,095 In "America in Vietnam" the authors' purpose is to help the reader reach th...

The sociology of knowledge as a subdiscipline in sociology deals with the social and group origins of ideas. In its brief history as a field of study, it has included the entire ideational realm (knowledge, ideas, theories, and mentalities...