Albert Bandura

Imagine a world where nobody lets you in, and you can’t feel connected despite your best efforts. This is what Holden Caulfield experiences in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden can’t find or reach the connections he wants because the other people in his life won’t let him in, and Holden pushes people away when he doesn’t feel safe from himself and the outside world. Throughout the book, Holden feels depressed. This is the result of isolation and alienation affecting Holden by not…

2) a,b : This passage is taken from "What is Enlightenment", by Immanuel Kant, from the first page of the essay. Kant is criticizing the over dependence of a grown up individual for nurturing and caretaking and possibly resisting the responsibilities brought to him. He says these deficiencies are caused by laziness and cowardice. Kant states that enlightenment is a man freeing himself from self-imposed nonage. He moves on explaining the reasons why this nonage takes place, and then moves on…

He who is guilty and driven by ambition will be blindly pulled around until justice stares him in the face. The Lion King by Roger Allers and Macbeth by Shakespeare are two very different pieces of work but have similar themes throughout. The Lion King and Macbeth have two character in which guilt haunts them in different ways. Blood is significant in both pieces of literature because the main characters feel that they cannot get the blood of others off their hands. Both characters go on a…

The philosopher Albert Camus paints and bleak picture of the human existence, saying that our lives have no meaning and are, as a consequence absurd, because all our efforts are futile and hopeless. However, if we can accept that choice is intrinsic to a thinking being, then we can admit to ourselves that everything we do, no matter how insignificant, possesses some meaning and it gives our existence purpose. There are two certainties in life deduced by the thinking of Rene Descartes; one is…

The movie “one flew over cuckoo’s nest” brilliantly directed by Molis Forman represents a miniature version of society. The movie addresses the society as a ruthless and efficient machine that confines each and every one in its narrow rules. The movie is set up in a mental institution which is representing the society. There is always an authority figure in society that binds everyone together. It can be anything like rule or a person. Every time whenever there is any kind of suppression there…

The definition of honorable is highest respect; esteem. I think honorable Font means that it is someone being praised or does something good. They deserve to be honored. Some accomplishments of Alfred Wegener is he proposed the theory of continental drift – the idea that Earth’s continents move. Despite publishing a large body of compelling fossil and rock evidence for his theory between 1912 and 1929, it was rejected by most other scientists. It was only in the 1960s that continental drift…

The setting of The Giver is extremely dull. In the story there is no true happiness or pain. Everything is controlled and rules are demanded to be followed. The people see their world in black and white. There is no vibrancy in the objects, which is symbolic to the way the characters felt. The townspeople were neutral inside, never possessing feelings of extreme happiness or sadness. The literary techniques and devices are descriptive in how they help the reader understand how Jonas feels about…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a man who stood up for his beliefs even until death. He left us an example of what a true Christian person is like. He lived in the time of World War II and the Holocaust. And because of his involvement as a spy during the World War II, opposing the Nazi government, and maintaining a leadership role in the Confessing Church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is remembered as a very important individual in the fight against human injustice. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on…

In the scene which has been attached above, one of the characters, Lon, states his opinion on what makes someone an adult. He believes that age has nothing to do with the matter of being an “adult”. Although Lon is clearly a legal adult, as he has gotten married and subsequently is in the process of divorce, he does not appear to consider himself as an adult. After the Luci says “We’re both adults here”, Lon responds with “Believe what you want.” This response indicates that Lon does not…

The Stranger is a philosophical novel written by Albert Camus during World War II. Having experienced the horror of war, Camus developed a sense of discontentment and skepticism towards the Western ideological beliefs, both secular and religious. Living in fear of the senseless atrocities, Camus developed his philosophy of the absurd based on the belief that humanity’s effort to search for meaning conflicts with the reality of an irrational universe. The protagonist of The Stranger, Meursault,…