Albert Schweitzer

Albert Einstein introduced his theory of General Relativity in 1915 (New Site). This theory includes a field equation for gravity, which consists of three terms: two tensors that represent space-time and the energy-momentum tensor. The energy momentum tensor represents the matter and energy in the universe which bends space-time to produce gravity (lecture 1). His equation is seen in Figure 1. Figure 1 On the right side of the equation is the matter and energy tensor and, on the left, are…

Examining The Road and the Writing Style through an Existentialist Lens In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, we are introduced to two nameless people traveling through a land and time unfamiliar, all of which is described to the reader in a stylistically confusing way—the reader can’t help but ask, why? Why is it so often that reading the book becomes as arduous as the journey of the main characters? After reading a page and a half of dialogue without quotation marks or reminders of who is speaking,…

Tulane’s production of No Exit was a very fun experience. No Exit itself is a very interesting story, with some very good dialogue. The dialogue really has to be very good, as the entire play takes place in a single room, which leaves a very heavy burden upon the actors to not only remember lines, but to execute them. While no doubt I think Garcin, Inez and Estelle were played a little differently than how Satre intended, the parts were acted well, and I view the differences from the script as…

How should we live, in order to "live a good life"? For someone such as Albert Camus, author of The Myth of Sisyphus, living a good life would involve living freely. Camus believed strongly that we as humans should not hope for anything. Nothing is guaranteed to us; we could literally drop dead at any moment. Camus believed everyone should live in the moment. His essays suggest we should accept whatever our actions result in, no matter how bad it is; as long as we find happiness in the present,…

understanding the behavior of certain things, like wise, there are also the ones who consider that they are a better resembles than others, while miss concluding their own defects. In both, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, by Flannery O 'Connor, and Guest, by Albert Camus, illustrates that evil and good in an individual are not mutually exclusive. In A Good Man is Hard to Find, we encounter a variety of characters with different characteristic. There is two characters who really stand out, one of…

In Albert Camus’ The Outsider, the court weighs Meursault’s acte gratuit, or assertion of individual will and freedom, against the outrage of the entire community. Likewise, Franz Kafka’s The Trial also juxtaposes the agency of the individual with the strength of the justice system, and displays how the trial suppresses K.’s psychological freedom and agency. As both novels demonstrate how the law subordinates the individual to the community, justice therefore appeases the public rather than…

1.0 Introduction Social learning theory is a theory that attempts to explain socialization and its effects on the development of self. It looks at individual learning process, the formation of self, and the influence of society in socializing individual (Crossman, 2017). Learning theories claim that deviant behaviour results when people learn deviant norms, values, and attitudes.The best-known general learning theory is Edwin H. Sutherland’s theory of differential association. It explains…

Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25th, 1642. As Newton grew up he was recognized as a very knowledgeable physicist, mathematician, author and astronomer. He excelled in both math and physics and has been developing theories since his early twenties. Isaac Newton attended a grammar school in Grantham near Lincolnshire, where as during this time Newton became very interested with chemicals. In 1664 Newton at that time was a student, he read up on work containing optics and light. He was…

R/W #7 These Dudes Wrote Some Pretty Dope Essays (A Critique of Three Key Transcendentalism Ideas Outlined by Emerson and Thoreau) Considered the greatest theoretical physicist in history, Albert Einstein wrote in a letter to Jost Winteler, “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”. Einstein refers to another physicist, Paul Drude, who dismissed Einstein’s critique of his electron theory of metals as out of hand. This quote speaks louder than just a feud between…

Existential Crisis or Enlightenment? Does human existence hold any greater meaning? In the 1946 novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, the protagonist and narrator, Meursault, a french man detached and estranged from humanity questions just that. In the first part, the story starts in the setting of the town of Algiers in 1940s French occupied Algeria. It begins with the death of his mother, to which Meursault does not feel much towards. He returns from the vigil held at the home that his…