Albert II

While few deem these guidelines breakable, the majority express that breaking these ethical codes will ultimately result in the downfall of an individual or on a larger scale an entire society. In The Stranger, absurdist and existentialist author Albert Camus promotes this concept using first person narrative in order to reveal the internal and external conflicts of an individual whose life lacks social conformity. Using the first person point of view allows the reader to only see the story from…

Albert Camus wrote The Stranger during the Existentialist movement, which explains why the main character in the novel, Meursault, is characterized as detached and emotionless, two of the aspects of existentialism. In Meursault, Camus creates a character he intends his readers to relate to, because he creates characters placed in realistic situations. He wants the reader to form a changing, ambiguous opinion of Meursault. From what Meursault narrates to the reader in the novel, the reader can…

people learn different actions and behaviours through active experiences, observing others and modelling from other people’s behaviours. Which helps with memory and improving attention span (Yussen, 1979). The theorist who underpinned this concept is Albert Bandura in 1961 (as cited in Weiten, 2017). He theorised that children who observed a teacher beating a doll will then influence them to do the same, which is known as the Bobo doll experiment. He found that children that were exposed to this…

In 1943, while World War II raged on, in the neutral country of Switzerland, a chemist by the name of Albert Hofmann was working at the Sandos Pharmaceutical Companny’s Bazo Laboratory. At this time Hofmann was looking for a cure for migraine headaches. What he discovered though, would change his life and the world as he knew it. Lysergic acid dielthylamide, commonly known as LSD, is one of the most potent psychedelic drugs known to man. Hofmann synthesized LSD from from ergotamine, a chemical…

In the third stage of the behaviorist school of thought we have the neo-neo behaviorist who are also known as socio-behaviorist. Sociobehaviorism began around the 1960’s and lasted until 1990. The leading figures in socio-behaviorism were Albert Bandura and Julian Rotter who incorporate a cognitive approach to the study of behavior. Although Bandura and Rotter were considered behaviorists, they were different from Skinner and other behaviorists before them in that they focused on cognitive…

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,…

The author of The Stranger, Albert Camus, was born in 1913 in Mondavi, French Algeria. His father died early in his life, so he lived with his half-deaf mother. He married two women when he was young, but divorced them both shortly after. He did very well in school and continued on into university. He also completed some military service and had a short political career as well. As far as his literary work goes, Camus wrote novels, plays, and even performed with the theater. He was awarded…

In addition to the trait aspect of personality, the external environment also influences our personality whether we realize it or not. External environment like parenting style, culture, or school influences and shapes our behavior and perception. The longer one lives in the same environment, one may be influenced by the culture of the surrounding. This, external environment, then influences our traits. No matter how much one’s personality may change according to the environment, a person’s core…

Freedom can mean many things to many people, freedom to me means being liberated from what once held one in bondage. Although, freedom according to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary gives a concise definition which states: “Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the other power of another: independence. Nevertheless, Martin Luther king Jr. is a well-known activist who fought for the freedom for African Americans. Also know for the March and his I have a dream speech. He wrote a letter…

Einstein developed the theory that light travels at the same speed no matter the “frame of reference” which contradicted Galileo’s previously believed theory of relativity, giving the scientific community a different idea to ponder (Hayden 12). Albert discovered that the universe was constantly expanding, later proven by Edwin Hubble, which discredited the previous view that the universe was static or never changing, altering the scientific world’s past beliefs (Biography.com 14). One of…