Scholars have treated the Captivi as a special case within Plautus’ corpus, even as the play proves itself as funny as any of his others; we shall not do differently here. The norm for Plautine farce is well-developed ...

The historic Obama campaign in 2008 hinged on whether prejudice and racism would prevent Obama from being able to successfully win the democratic nomination and the presidency. Because of Obama’s outsider status through ...

Abortion attitudes were studies within a framework of feminist object relations theory. 80 subjects from a small coeducational college participated. Attitudes were assessed by a questionnaire containing: background ...

The Egyptian cholera epidemic of 1883-4 re-invigorated debates within the British and international medical communities over the cause and transmission of the disease. Despite four major outbreaks of epidemic cholera in ...

Grizzly Man (2004), the latest documentary feature from Werner Herzog, re-energizes an old argument surrounding the influence of German Romanticist painting on the filmmaker's aesthetic vision. In the 1970s, Herzog garnered ...

Tuberculosis has afflicted human populations for thousands of years, but it was not until the nineteenth century that it came to be perceived as an epidemic that posed a serious public health problem. The dramatic rise in ...

It has become an increasingly prevalent strategy for U.S. firms to locate production offshore in order to minimize production costs and maximize profits. Although this may benefit the firm, it is unclear how offshoring ...