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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...
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives....
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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...
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A generalization element is a model element—an element that is an abstraction of the system being modeled--that can take part in a generalization relationship. A generalization relationship is one where the child element that has bee...
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A class declaration is a blueprint for what a class will look like, the data members it will contain, and the functions it will have. In C++ a class declaration is typically made in a "header file" or "include file." A class declaration is...
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An object-oriented language is a computer programming language that revolves around the concept of an object. Object-oriented languages were developed to make it easier to develop, debug, reuse, and maintain software than is possible with ...
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. Life is made up, not of great sac...
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SOURCE: "Oblomov and Oblomovism," and "The Ravine," in Goncharov, Yale University Press, 1954, pp. 27-37, 37-47. In the following excerpt, Lavrin studies style, theme, plot, and character in Oblomov and The Ravine, and provides a critical s...
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Charlotte Grace O'Brien was an energetic and strong-willed Irish political reformer and writer who recorded many of her experiences, both political and personal, in her poetry. O'Brien's poems span the middle ground between traditional, se...
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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was born June 2, 1840, in the village of Upper Bockhampton, in Dorset. He was the eldest of four children of Thomas Hardy, a builder and master mason, and Jemima Hand. Both parents were from lon...
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God. Li...
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The poem "Fame", by Vladimir Nabokov, seems to begin with the description or rather a search for the description of a character to be placed in one form of literary sat, whether poem or prose. The character's physical description is alread...
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Both John James Audubon and Annie Dillard describe flocks of birds in two excerpts from their books, Ornithological Biographies and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, respectively. However, their portrayals are dissimilar both in how they choose to d...
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Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science. You can observe a lot just by watching. The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by for...
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Anthology Foreword The fabrics, systems and of society are, to many, an immoral and corrupt world, filled with biased, selfish, superficial, static, contradictive and careless ideologies. This invited reading of social criticism is the t...
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The most sensitive, sophisticated, and flexible instrument of observation available today is the human being. All the recent advances in technology have not changed this central fact; we can monitor communications, transcribe conversations...
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Work orders, phone calls, memorandums, facsimile, nettlesome computer issues, arid meetings filled with desultory talk, and the constant income of office network E-mails; have I stirred something? I think it's safe to say most people don't ...
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Psychological theories have traditionally emphasized learning from direct experience. If knowledge and skills could be acquired only by trial and error, human development would be greatly retarded, not to mention exceedingly tedious and ha...
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Astronomers study the universe by measuring electromagnetic radiation—gamma rays, X rays, optical and infrared radiation, and radio waves—emitted by planets, stars, galaxies, and other distant objects. Because Earth's ...
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. It...
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Brian De Palma's "Obsession" is an hommage to Hitchcock's "Vertigo."… But it is intellectually muddleheaded in a way that Hitchcock's films never are. It is not up to the Master's insteps. There is a point at which hommage has an enfeebli...
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Perfection may be dreamed of, hoped for, and sought after. It can be imagined, imitated, pretended, poorly masqueraded, and foolishly impersonated. Yet as Vince Lombardi said, "perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we...
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"Obsession is a commitment; you have to believe in it, because it soon takes you over." A chilling statement made by Pilar Vilades in a New York Times Magazine article regarding how time consuming an obsession can be. This is exceptionall...
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Obsidian is volcanic glass with a chemical composition similar to that of rhyolite or granite. It is most commonly black, although greenish to reddish and banded varieties also occur. In addition to its dark color and glassy luster, obsidi...
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Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obst...
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Obstetrics, the medical specialty of caring for women and their babies during childbirth, arose in the mid-eighteenth century. Ordinarily, women in childbirth were attended by other women—mostly relatives, friends, or neighbors who...
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Quotes about obstinacy : Unsourced "Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong." Madame Necker "People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are." Blair "An ...
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. Never assume the obvious is true. No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better...
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