Albert Outler

T Introduction Jean Piaget a well-known and first psychologist to make a systemic study of cognitive development. He was a very talented scholar and his first scientific paper, on the Albino Sparrow published at the age of ten. After he received his doctoral degree at the age of twenty-two, Piaget formally began his career that would have a profound impact on psychology and education. Today, Piaget is best known for his research on children’s cognitive development. He studied the intellectual…

Stephen Crane questions man's fate in this world through naturalism. In "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," Crane shows the helplessness of one's state in relation to poverty, and in "The Open Boat," Crane shows the helplessness of one's state in relation to nature. Crane emphasizes the essence that forces, such as poverty and nature, are not adversaries to man, but rather that they are simply forces that are apathetic towards man. "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" can be a downer, but it is…

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.” This quote extracted from Waiting for Godot, an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett that premiered on 5 January 1953, holds the essence of absurdist theatre and what its playwrights seek to express- the inescapable meaningless and futility of life. The origins of absurdist theatre are commonly linked to the avant-garde experimentations of the 19th century, but there has been speculation that there were traces of absurdist theatre in works…

Throughout generations, artists, philosophers and great leaders have demonstrated that spending time in solitude can lead to great discoveries and benefits. Many scientific studies have also shown that solitude on the contrary of loneliness is often to be considered to have a positive outcome rather than a negative. In fact solitude can have such a great impact on human beings that if exposed to the right environment settings and having the right characteristics an individual can experience…

and authority, and also his indifference and coldness to the man he is trying to break. His figure is stiff, his posture is perfect and he only makes quick deliberate movements. His face is completely emotionless, adding again to how little empathy he has towards a man who is married and has children, and who has done nothing violent in nature. The room around him is drab, dull, ugly, empty and harsh. Wiesler, with the cold colors of his uniform matching the cold colors of the room, seems to…

Throughout the novel, Camus illustrates Meursault as an emotionally detached man. Beginning with this passage, Camus introduces Meursault’s nonchalant attitude, and therefore begins to develop a careless, emotionless tone. When Meursault states, “That tells me nothing. It could have been yesterday,” and neglects to exhibit any concern about how his mother died, the reader can determine that Meursault is more concerned about when his mother died than he is that she died at all (Camus 3). Soon…

The universal challenge of maintaining individuality is explored in both J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye and Stephen Chbosky’s film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, yet is approached differently due to contrasting contexts. Both protagonists struggle to withstand the values of their society which conflicts with their own and to succeed despite the expectations placed upon them. As a result of their respective time periods, Holden Caulfield approaches these obstacles with pessimism…

HMS 105 Exam 9 question 1 Discuss differences and similarities between the social learning model and the cognitive-behavioral model. Intro A person who is trying to remain sober has many barriers to overcome. There is a “high rate of relapse during the recovery process” (Stevens & Smith, pg. 261). This is one reason why “more research is being done to address substance abuse relapse” (Stevens & Smith, pg. 261). There are many reasons why a person relapses. Since everyone is individual so is…

Emmy Noether Amalie Noether better known as Emmy was the daughter of Max and Ida Noether. She was born in Erlange, Germany on March 23, 1882. Some say that she was destined to be a mathematical genius, because her father Max Noether was a professor of math at University of Erlangen. Although, Emmy Noether was certified in French and English, and could have taught school girls, she wanted to study mathematics. In 1903, she began to audit math lectures at the University of Gottingen. After…

Most people imagine time as a constant. Physicist Albert Einstein illustrated that time is an illusion that it is relative which it can differ for different observers depending on the speed through space. To Einstein, time is a fourth dimension and space is described as a three-dimensional field, which provides a traveler with coordinates such as length, height and width showing location. Time provides one more coordinate direction although conventionally, it only moves forward. Time…