for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself”. Rita Mae Brown displays the message of nonconformity and existential views throughout her writings. Brown supports the idea of individuality and originality through forms of isolation. Albert Camus displays his existential views through the motif of conformity and confinement in his novel The Stranger .This portrayal of the difference between society’s expectations and a character’s mentality of refusing to conform to society’s expectations
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Book review on “The good Girl” by Kerry Cohen Hoffmann The novel‚ The Good Girl‚ is another amazing and emotional book by Kerry Cohen Hoffmann. This fiction book is filled with drama and a touch of romance. The main character is Lindsay whose life has changed dramatically especially after the death of her brother‚ Mark. To cope with all her problems and to keep her family together she becomes the “good girl”. She is a good student‚ good friend and the good daughter. But when the pressure
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we can not accomplish it. There are many kinds of thoughts or philosophies of life; some think that life is already determined by God or destiny when they were born‚ while others think that they decide what they do by themselves. In "the stranger"‚ Albert Camus creates Meursault as a protagonist‚ who does not think about anything deeply. Because of that‚ he can not really enjoy his life. However‚ finally‚ he thinks about his life when he faces death; he truly realized how to face to the absurd world
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In the preface of his essay‚ The Myth of Sisyphus‚ Albert Camus states that the story is “A lucid invitation to live and to create‚ in the very midst of the desert. “ I agree with this statement as I believe that life is meaningless unless we create our own meaning. The world is merely arbitrary effects of causes that manifest and create life as we know it. When Camus says that the myth of Sisyphus is an invitation to live and create‚ he is saying that from this story we can learn to live on although
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Book review Soviet Fates and Lost alternatives – Stephen F. Cohen As Stephen Cohen states in the introduction‚ Soviet Fates and lost alternatives was written out of a personal fascination for alternative roads that ’could have been’ the path of history. Cohen’s approach is indeed personal as he tries to show that the communist party consisted (and always has consisted) of people‚ and not out of a fixed idea. People shape history‚ not economical- political- or other crises. And to every person
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Albert Bierstadt‚ whose “gigantic and romantic landscapes…introduced Americans to the awesome beauty of their own frontier‚” (Kernan‚ 86) is a good example of how visual representations played a significant role in the dissemination of the mythic West. Being one of the first artists to join expedition tours‚ Bierstadt’s paintings of the West offered Americans visual confirmation of what they had been told through literary media as well as their cultural and religious traditions. Because Bierstadt
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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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Nations. The role of the United States in the twentieth-century world should have been dominated by the hunger for power but also the desire to help those in need. America should have designed their role including these two ideas as one. For example‚ Albert Beveridge gave an excellent opinion of how he believed America should have taken a higher position in the world at this time. He states‚ “The opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a people without their consent. I answer. The rule of liberty
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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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