Black Death‚ one of the deadliest plagues in world history‚ engraved a wide swath of cataclysmic damage and inflicted a large loss of life. Discriminating against no one‚ it claimed the lives of the lower class and the gentry‚ the young and the old. Albert Camus’s novel‚ The Plague‚ illustrates the effects of and the responses to a plague that strikes the Algerian city of Oran. The allegorical representations and actions of five central characters in the novel‚ Dr. Bernard Rieux‚ Jean Tarrou‚ Raymond
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the universal law. This is also called destiny or fate and it means that people believe their role in this world is given and they cannot change it. However‚ people’s life is not destined by a universal law or by God. With the new discoveries in science‚ it has been claimed that 18th century scientists were wrong in their view on universal law. The chaotic scientists of the 20th century claimed that the chaotic system is random and not related with destiny because any change in the initial condition
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Manifest Destiny In the1840s‚ the term Manifest Destiny was used to justify the United States’ westward expansion. This expansion took place in areas like Texas and Oregon. There was a belief that Americans had a mission which was divinely inspired to spread their democracy to the less fortunate. The less fortunate consisted of Native Americans and other non-Europeans. The phrase "manifest destiny" first came in the 1840’s‚ which was primarily used by Jackson democrats‚ with annexations to
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The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1946. The novel begins with Meursault receiving a telegram informing him of his mother’s death. Over the next two weeks after the funeral‚ Meursault carries on like nothing tragic happened. He gets a girlfriend‚ befriends a pimp‚ and goes on a beach vacation with both. During the vacation‚ he and Raymond‚ the pimp‚ get into a fight with the Arabs and Meursault kills one without an explanation for the crime. At the murder trial‚ the court said he was cold-hearted
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Introduction - Daja Was the US right for declaring war on Mexico? What would America be like if we hadn’t? The United States was right to acquire the South Western territories since they were undeveloped‚ had a dictatorship instead of a democracy‚ and these lands were in peril of being conquered by larger foreign enemy countries. If we didn’t step in and declare war on Mexico‚ then the United States wouldn’t have the freedoms and riches it has today‚ and we wouldn’t have been able to support other
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The story The Guest‚ by Albert Camus‚ read on page 381 of Perrine’s Literature textbook‚ contains many symbols. Perrine describes symbols as “Something that means more than what it suggests on the surface.”(Perrine 300). This could be any person‚ place‚ thing‚ action‚ name or situation that the story presents us with‚ as long as the story also supports the symbol. Perrine writes that there are four ‘rules’ to identifying symbols. The first is that “the story itself must furnish a clue that a detail
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When Albert Camus wrote The Stranger in 1942‚ his intention was to present absurdism and existentialism to the world. The absurdity of life from Camus’s eyes come to life through the main character‚ Meursault. Throughout the novel‚ Meursault doesn’t wish he could live another life nor does he attempt to change his final judgement. Meursault’s inability to feel emotions and express them to others is a primary example of existentialism throughout the novel. From Meursault’s physical descriptions of
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Albert Einstein was born at Ulm‚ in Württemberg‚ Germany‚ on March 14‚ 1879. He is a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. He is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Einstein’s parents were secular‚ middle-class Jews. His father‚ Hermann Einstein‚ was originally a featherbed salesman and later ran
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Ms. Chinea Albert Einstein – a Condensed Biography Einstein. Is there a single person in our day and age who has not heard that name? For just about everyone‚ the name ‘Einstein’ conjures up images of an almost supernatural genius‚ whose intellectual abilities far surpassed that of the rest of the population. His name has even grown to become an adjective – describing someone as an ‘Einstein’ implies that they are incredibly smart‚ perhaps even on genius level. What made Albert Einstein so well
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Destiny Rides Again (1939) Director and Lead Actress Director George Marshall was born on December 29‚ 1891 in Chicago‚ Illinois. He was one of America’s earlier directors and is most well known for directing comedies. He worked closely with Lucille Ball on many different projects‚ leading her to ask him to direct her show Here’s Lucy (1968-1974). Some of his most famous projects include: How the West Was Won (1962)‚ Destiny Rides Again (1939)‚ and The Blue Dahlia (1946). As the New York
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