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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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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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OCCASIONALISM. [This entry deals specifically with Islamic occasionalism.] The adjective occasional, as applied to causes or events, is used by medieval European theologians such as Thomas Aquinas to mean an "indirect cause which de...
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Occidentalism In Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit's book, Occidentalism: The West in the eyes of the East, they set out to solve the fueling force that drives the "enemies" of America and the Western world. This hatred spans back to the ti...
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Marita Bonner is perhaps the most unorthodox playwright of the early part of the century to turn her attention toward the concerns of the African American community. Yet, despite an unusual, nonrealistic approach to her subject, Bonner won...
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WORKS CITED Bubeck, Mark. The Satanic Revival. CA: Here's Life Publishers, 1991. Cruz, Nicky. Satan on the Loose. NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1973. Klein, Aaron. Science and the Supernatural. NY: Doubleday and Co., Inc, 1979. Kohn, Be...
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Few noticeable changes have occurred in the occupational situations of African-Americans since the 1990s. In 2002 African-Americans accounted for 10.9 percent of the civilian labor force age sixteen and over. Of the entire employed popula...
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Germany 1889 During May 1889 nearly 100,000 German miners went on strike in the Ruhr Valley. They demanded wage increases and an eight-hour workday and raised other grievances. Faced with employer intransigence, some miners petitioned Kai...
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The only Americans, other than American Indians, who ever experienced extended, large-scale enemy occupation were the people of the Confederate South. The "enemy" was the U.S. army, which set forth in 1861 to conquer the Conf...
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Occupational and career mobility in adulthood is often referred to as intragenerational social mobility. It involves change in an individual's position in the labor market over the adult life course. Change is studied with respect t...
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There are various occupational lung diseases. Among them are: Asbestosis, a chronic, progressive inflammation of the lung; it is a consequence of prolonged exposure to large quantities of asbestos, a material once widely used in constructi...
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Individuals have repeatedly demonstrated an ability to rank occupations according to their prestige, a relative social standing in a society. Occupational prestige is one of the most empirically studied aspects of stratification structure ...
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A relatively new concern that dates roughly to the post-Industrial Revolution era, occupation health and safety is a field that involves measures to prevent or minimize dangers to people in their places of work, i.e., the office, farm, bui...
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The market is not always right. Unless the marketplace is policed, criminals reap the rewards, not society. Before the Savings and Loan crisis began, Rep Henry Gonzalez pleaded over and over for Congress to appropriate funds for bank exam...
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The American Occupational Therapy Association defines occupational therapy as "the therapeutic use of self-care, work/productive activities, and play/leisure activities to increase independent function, enhance development, and prevent dis...
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