Albert Boime

Existentialism and Nihilism Present in Grendel Existentialism is not essentially nihilism, however nihilism does share a close similarity with existentialism because it describes human life as ultimately meaningless. Grendel throughout the book is seeking an explanation for his personality and the purpose of life. He must go through obstacles with the help and confusion from the Dragon and Shaper to find his answer. While John Gardner explores numerous philosophies and thoughts in Grendel, the…

Animal Farm is the Orwell’s least personal of all of his writings. It is due to the unknown narrator who is notable for being prejudiceless and eccentricity. It is the only Orwell’s work where the author is not a major character or a narrator himself. The story is set in an unspecified time period and without many historical references but it is a short allegorical, satirical fable on the political situation around Russian Revolution which was, assumably, the time setting of the story, and it…

Analysis of themes in Don DeLillos novel White Noise. Reality versus fabrication. An obvious theme within DeLillos novel White Noise is the conflict between reality and fabrication. For example, this applies well to Jack and his altering personalities. Even though Jack has created a respected, intellectual identity for himself through the character of J.A.K. Gladney, professor in the studies of Hitler, he remains awkwardly aware of the fact that this entire character is a lie. In reality, the…

Piezoelectricity was discovered in1880 by Pierre and Jacques Curie, However the term piezoelectricity was coined by W.G. Henkel in 1881.G.Lippman discovered reverse process that is to say on application of electric field mechanical stresses could be developed in 1880 .Which was experimentally proven by curie brothers in 1881. Piezoelectric materials can be natural or synthetic. Natural occurring crystals include quartz, topaz, silk, wood etc. While as synthetic are quartz like, ceramic polymers…

WERNHER VON BRAUN Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun, the father of modern rocketry and one of the most important outer space engineers of the 20th century, was born on 23th of March 1912 in Wirsitz (Wyrzysk)(today in Poland). He was a child of a wealthy family from Germany. With their second son, Wernher, Magnus von Braun and Emmy von Quistorp moved to Berlin in 1915. In those years, Wernher von Braun became interested in music and astronomy. And his passion, astronomy, went on for…

Gregor Mendel, known as the “father of modern genetics”, he was born in Austria in 1822. Mendel was sent to a secondary school in Troppau to continue his education, he grew up in a German speaking family and graduated high school in 1840. After his graduation he went onto a 2-year program at the Philosophical Institute at Olmutz University. Around 1854, Mendel began to research the transmission of hereditary traits in plant hybrids. At the time of Mendel’s studies, it was a generally accepted…

Of those philosophers who seek to define life in some way, mostly positively, there are a set of provoking souls who seek to uproot any optimistic perspective such as Friedrich Nietzsche. He sees life as a bleak, ephemeral, meaningless, and deceptive time from birth until death as he explains in the essay “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense.” One of the subjects he especially focuses on is the topic of metaphors in language and naming empirical objects that surround us. When a human hears…

Albert Vinicio Báez (/ˈbaɪ.ɛz/; November 15, 1912 – March 20, 2007) was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña. He was born in Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist minister. Baez grew up in Brooklyn and considered becoming a minister before turning to mathematics and physics. He made important contributions to the early development of X-ray microscopes and later…

Albert Camus was an award-winning French author who expressed his absurdist views on the meaning of life and the purpose of humans in his esteemed novels, especially his 1942 classic The Stranger. The Stranger demonstrates Camus’ absurdist beliefs, sending a message to the world that life is meaningless and that personal values deserve to be defended. In this novel, Camus’ character of Meursault is the “stranger” that the title refers to because he is greatly misunderstood by his society due…

certain literature, but in the world today. Not only with religion, but media and communication pressure people to have predetermined destinies, to believe in the afterlife and follow certain actions set by standards and stereotypes. When Existentialist Albert Camus published The Stranger,it describes not just the principles of this theology, but how society perceives it. Meursault was viewed as unloving towards his girlfriend, cold and heartless when he did not cry in his mother’s funeral and…