Albert Camus’ The Stranger is about Meursault‚ an acutely detached‚ unaffected man‚ who kills an Arab‚ then is tried and convicted and sentenced to death. The novel focuses on the absurdity of life‚ which rises in the duality of one’s desire to find the point of existence‚ and their inability to do so. The absurd envelops all things‚ and Camus is devout in the return of an affectionate embrace‚ for he is convinced that only when one is entirely free of hope‚ can they live. As living things that will
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Albert Ellis was born in Pittsburg‚ Pennsylvania on September 27‚ 1913. He was the first-born child of two Jewish parents‚ and with his father being a businessman; he mostly relied on his mother. However‚ in his autobiography‚ Ellis described his mother as a self-absorbed woman with bipolar disorder. His siblings consisted of a two-year younger brother and a four-year younger sister. With both of his parents being emotionally distant from their children‚ Ellis stepped up and helped to care for them
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* Albert Camus. Born Nov 7‚ 1913‚ in French colonial Algeria. * His father was killed in World War I‚ at the Battle of the Marne. * He lived with his mother‚ and brother sharing a two-bedroom apartment with his grandmother and a paralysed uncle. * He attended the University of Algiers‚ supporting his education by working odd jobs. However‚ he was forced to drop out of school due to ill-health. * The poverty and illness he experienced as a youth greatly influenced his writing.
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The Lone Stranger To some a life has a purpose‚ but to others a life is only a life. In The Stranger by Albert Camus is not a typical romance novel. It is about a man named Meursault‚ who endures the sudden loss of his mother but feels no pain or remorse in her passing because he lives for the sensual pleasures of the present moment‚ free of any system of values. The next day he reunites with a long lost love and they reconnect with each other. Meursault later kills an Arab and is convicted of premeditated
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Running head: HOME READING ASSIGNMENT #2 1 The Stranger by Albert Camus 1. Meursault is locked into the routine of daily existence; his life is a shapeless void without ideas‚ preferences‚ goals‚ or emotions. Like a robot‚ Meursault responds to everything automatically‚ neither feeling nor caring. When he is offered a job transfer to Paris‚ Meursault says he does not care where he works; yet he does not go because moving would be too much trouble. His mother’s
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Close Reading: “The Stranger” By Albert Camus The opening of “The Stranger” Meursault is informed of his mother’s death. Meursault tells us: “I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything.” (page 3); a very strong statement to set the mood of this chapter. When he finished reading the telegram his first thought is: “That doesn’t mean anything.” this can give the reader the idea that Meursault is disconnected‚ cold‚ and perhaps
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Social learning theory was developed by Albert Bandura as a way to understand the influence individuals and their environments have on each other (Ashford and LeCroy‚ 2009). Bandura proposed the idea of observational learning‚ or that an individual learns whenever he/she watches another person perform a behavior and then imitates that behavior (Ashford and LeCroy‚ 2009). Learning‚ then‚ is essentially a cycle of observing and modeling. In one of Bandura’s more famous experiments known as the ‘Bobo
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MEURSAULT AS A NIHILIST IN ALBERT CAMUS ‘S THE STRANGER Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French novelist ‚ essayist ‚ dramatist‚ regarded as one of the finest philosophical writers of modern France. He earned a world –wide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. Through his writings and I some measure against his will‚ he became the leading moral voice of his generation during the 1950’s. one of the greatest modern writers; he expresses the moral concerns
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Albert Einstein is an icon in the field of science and regarded as the most important and influential scientist of the twentieth century. Einstein gained notoriety for his Annus Mirabilis papers‚ his theory of relativity and receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics. His brilliant discoveries affected the way the world and the universe are perceived. Furthermore‚ he won over the common people even though he spoke the complicated language of mathematics. Synopsis of Einstein’s life and times Albert
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"influential" because of the things they do during the course of their lives. In any given time period‚ only a handful of men and women will be remembered with such admiration and respect. It is my opinion that within the last one hundred years‚ one man‚ Albert Einstein‚ has fit this description to the letter. This review of Einstein’s life and work will help readers to understand better Einstein’s prolific scientific and social contributions to mankind and to the modern world. He will always be remembered
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