Getting used to punishment The book‚ The Stranger‚ was written by Albert Camus and was based on the Myth of Sisyphus‚ and thus these two books share many similarities and also contain many differences. In the Myth of Sisyphus‚ Sisyphus was eternally condemned by the gods to push a rock up a hill‚ only to have it fall down on him again. Meursault however‚ is a person who is accused of murder‚ sent to jail for over a year‚ and is then executed. What both these characters have come to realize is that
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“What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions‚” quoted A.P.J. Abdul Kalam‚ former president of India. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam says that in order for someone to be successful and make the right decisions‚ they need to have experience. When somebody is involved in a dispute‚ they can determine which side is right by looking back at their experiences‚ by their instincts‚ and by risking a side that seems to tempt
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On the first day of their assignment‚ Timothy and Adeline were so excited that they worked well past dinner time; using candles to illuminate as they continued to work with their soft and glossy fabrics. They were determined to get the coats done‚ even as their time constraints danced around them. The next day‚ Timothy smiled at the fabric that lay out on his and Adeline’s work station. Each of them had already begun to embroidered designs onto the fabric‚ and had began to cut out the coat itself
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In my opinion‚ I don’t really like this story. It gave us as a reader a negative vibes regarding to their attitude. ’Twelve and not stupid’ is very interesting at the beginning. I am wonder what twelve and not stupid is. It is very mysterious. The writer began the story with the character of Auntie May. I feel pity towards Shasha has to wait alone after school time. It will be so dangerous if we let a kid to be alone.If she has been kidnapped‚ she and her family would be in trouble. Shasha’s father
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Where have you seen this before? How are the passages similar? How are they different? What does this similarity/ difference tell us about a larger similarities/differences in the works of a whole? Example from teacher: Aeneid line 404-424 (Dido is broken hearted) Odyssey: 212-225 (Calypso- "Can I be less desirable?") similarity: both have broken-hearts- the protagonist is leaving them difference: Aneid- Rome calls‚ going to Italy to build a new home/ Dido refuses to accept his leaving/
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Five More This essay belongs in my book because I got to compare two different styles of writing. I like the story of Icarus and seeing it in different writing styles made me think. I loved being able to compare the same story told a different way. It opened my eyes on the changes a story can have based on the writing style. Flying Free Poetry and Folktales are two very different styles of writing. They represent ideas and thoughts in different ways. The genre of the folktale “The Flight of
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The two poems‚ Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out and Portrait of a Machine both talks about machines and they are related to our everyday lives. There are quite a few differences and similarities in the two poems‚ Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out and Portrait of a Machine. To start off with‚ the poem Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out is warning everyone about how the machines would take over the world and teaching all of us what we should do usually to prevent them taking over and hurting us. The poem picks out all
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Many people consider that money is a very important in order to accomplish happiness‚ but a majority of the time money and happiness have nothing to do with each other. In “Jeannot and Colin” by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire the reader is presented with the story of a family who acquires a great richness and then ends up losing everything. With this story the reader is presented with many of the lessons of why money and happiness do not work well with each other. The reader is also presented with
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Brink and Harris note that the Catholic church and Jews have supported the civil rights movement (p. 133). That is not surprising. Both have little regards for the races that God created. Both lust for power. Turmoil often results in the concentration of political power. Both intend to control this concentrated power. In Chapter 9‚ Brink and Harris discuss what Whites think of Negroes. They conclude that Whites suffer from guilt about the way that they treat or do not treat the Negro (p. 138). This
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Zombie in definition means‚ a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft‚ especially in certain African and Caribbean religions; person or reanimated corpse that has been turned into a creature capable of movement but not of rational thought‚ which feeds on human flesh; a person who is or appears lifeless‚ apathetic‚ or completely unresponsive to their surroundings; a hypothetical being that responds to stimulus as a person would but that does not experience consciousness. However; I would argue that
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