Albert Boime

Barnes, A., & Harlacher, J. (2008, August 1). Clearing the Confusion: Response-to-Intervention as a Set of Principles. Retrieved October 3, 2015. This article focuses on the lack of emphasis on the flexible nature of RTI and the changing descriptions of it may lead to confusion among school professionals. It explains that there are 5 key principles and 4 features of RTI, they are extensively outlined in this article. RTI is described as a set of principles that do not change, but vary in…

2.2 Self–efficacy Self-efficacy is a significant factor in Bandura’s social cognitive theory, which emphasizes the evolvement and exercise of human agency (Bandura 1977, 1986, 1997). Human agency is the idea that people can exert some control over what they do (Bandura 1977, 1986, 1997). Therefore, people are thought to be self-organizing, proactive, self-reflective, and self-regulated. Because people are involved in their own development; the way they think, believe and feel construct some…

Hunter McCraw When people try and end a war early, innocent people get hurt. Albert Einstein thought he could do so with his position on Uranium. Although Einstein was very intelligent, I am not sure he took into consideration that innocent people could be hurt from these bombs. Albert Einstein seemed naive to the fact that there are people on the other side not trying to hurt us. Einstein’s point of view of uranium was patriotic, but it would be harmful to many people. Einstein…

Walk on Earth a Stranger is a historical fiction book that takes place in 1849 in Dahlonega, Georgia, California, and in between. It is about a ___ year old girl named Leah Westfall, her friend Jefferson and her horrible uncle Hiram. This all begins with Leah Westfall and her family. Leah is not a normal girl she has a special power. She can sense gold! In 1849 finding gold could save a family from a horrible life. Leah has found a whole sack of gold up until now. She kept the sack…

The novel The Stranger was written in 1942 by an author from Algeria named Albert Camus. This work has been translated into many different languages after its initial success. The story takes place in the French Algiers and is narrated in first person by a man named Meursault. The storyline begins with him speaking about his mother's death. “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: ‘Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.’ That doesn’t mean…

The following is an epilogue to Albert Camus’s The Stranger, an existentialist novel where the main character, Meursault, comes face to face with the reality of the Absurd. Being sentenced to death, not because of the murder he committed but because of his radical worldview, Meursault remains true to his belief that there is no God, no meaning, and no hope to the life he lives. Meursault, at the end of the novel, shares his last wish; that at his death, he would have one last bit of…

Jerome David Salinger was born in New York on January 1st, 1919. His father was a rabbi who ran a cheese and ham import business. Even though Salinger was smart, he flunked out of McBurney in 1934. His parents then shipped him off to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Once he graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy, he returned to his hometown. He decides to become an aspiring writer and goes to New York University. However, he was forced to drop out of New York…

The most powerful weapon came from the mind of Albert Einstein. He advanced our way of thinking and introduced new concepts for the world. Albert Einstein was born in the town of Ulm, Germany. He was born into a middle class family; his father was a salesman and engineer. His mother ran the household and took care of his sister, Maja. During 1880, his family moved to Munich, Germany. His uncle and Father owned a company that produced electrical equipment. Einstein was a keen young…

Albert Camus wrote The Plague using several literary devices to further the novel. It is often said that an author inserts their own character traits and beliefs into the characters of their novels. Camus is no different in this aspect, especially when it comes to his protagonist Dr. Rieux. The event of the plague which is the main focus of the novel is a catalyst that shapes and changes the characters, some for the better and others for the worse. With the rest of this essay Dr. Rieux, Cottard,…

Albert Camus once explained that “Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic” (“Albert Camus Quote”), and the latter is certainly true for the protagonist, Meursault, of his novel The Stranger. In the novel, Camus uses his protagonist, through characterization and diction, to support his absurdist philosophy. Absurdism is the concept that humanity must survive in a world that is constantly hostile or indifferent towards them (Absurdism). Although Camus is famous for…