To conclude‚ Meursault does not deserve death‚ nor any punishment at all. While it is true that Meursault murdered the Arab‚ the defense maintains that the execution of Meursault would be more unnecessary bloodshed. For is the life of a thuggish‚ violent Arab equivalent to the life of an educated‚ hard-working Frenchman who works for the greater good? The clear answer is no. Shooting the Arab is the same as removing a stain from our great nation. Dozens of Arabs are currently locked in prison‚ wasting
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Throughout The Stranger by Albert Camus‚ the protagonist‚ Meursault‚ is worried about being judged. The reader does not realize that Camus sets us up to constantly judge Meursault. Meursault is very analytical and can seem to be insensitive at times. However‚ Meursault’s actions can be taken many different ways. The ending leaves the reader to give a final judgment on whether Meursault is a menace to society or not. Meursault should not have received the death sentence because he was judged for his
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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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31 Functions of emotions : * Preparing us for action. Emotions act as a link between events in our environment and our responses. * Shaping our future behavior. Emotions promote learning that will help us make appropriate responses in the future. * Helping us interact more efficiently with others. We ooften communicate the emotion we experience through our verbal and nonverbal behaviors‚ making our emotions obvious to observers. Determining the Range of Emotions: Labeling Our Feelings
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Emotions in the workplace play a large role in how an entire organization communicates within itself and to the outside world. “Events at work have real emotional impact on participants. The consequences of emotional states in the workplace‚ both behavioral and attitudinal‚ have substantial significance for individuals‚ groups‚ and society”.[1] “Positive emotions in the workplace help employees obtain favorable outcomes including achievement‚ job enrichment and higher quality social context”.[2] “Negative
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psychological state that we are in can affect how we feel so much‚ it raises the question of what is happening when we do feel an emotion. Is it purely psychological‚ which correlates with it? Alternatively‚ is it that‚ unconsciously‚ we recognise the psychological state that our body is in and attribute feelings to it‚ depending on what is happening at the time? In psychology‚ emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought
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The Theme of The Stranger In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus Meursault has to deal with his own problems as well as others problems. He goes to his mother’s funeral and when he returns a few of his friends present him with their own problems as ask him for help. Almost every character in this book faces a problem or multiple problems sometime during the story. The main theme of this book is that problems will always exist in everyone’s life. Just deal with what you have to deal with
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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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Different people define emotions in different ways. Some make a distinction between emotions and feelings saying that a feeling is the response part of the emotion and that an emotion includes the situation or experience‚ the interpretation‚ the perception‚ and the response or feeling related to the experience of a particular situation. For the purposes of this article‚ I use the terms interchangeably. John D. (Jack) Mayer says‚ “Emotions operate on many levels. They have a physical aspect
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Emotions: Emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behavior. According To David G. Meyers: human emotion involves "...physiological arousal‚ expressive behaviors‚ and conscious experience." The term emotion usually is distinguished from feelings‚ mood‚ and affect. 1. Feeling: the subjective experience associated with an emotion. 2. Mood: an emotional state that is general and extended in time
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