Algiers

got a telegram from the home: ‘Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.’ That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.” (Camus 3) The perplexing tale of Meursault, an emotionally detached and seemingly amoral young man living in Algiers, stands notoriously as the introduction to “the absurd.” Albert Camus coined this school of thought, using The Stranger as a mechanism for expressing his ideas in the novel that has confused, overwhelmed, and disoriented readers for decades…

This paper will provide an in-depth organizational profile of the international terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda, Arabic for “the base”, as well as a look at the leadership, funding, support locations, personnel strength, ideology, targeting, tactics, capability, communications, and overall goals of the group. Al-Qaeda was responsible for the worst attack on United States soil on September 11, 2001, as they planned and executed the hijacking of four commercial airliners and crashed two…

PABLO PICASSO Picasso was not only a very interesting man but he was also one of the most revolutionary artist of the early 20th century. He was considered a prodigy and a pioneer in the art world from a very young age, and continued to shape the art scene throughout his entire life. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Málaga, on the coast of Spain. His mother was Dona Maria Picasso y Lopez and his Father was Don José Ruiz Blasco. Picasso came from a modest background, his father…

Literature. Albert Camus was born on the 7th of November, 1913, in Mondovi, French Algeria. Camus became popular for his political journalism, essays and novels during the 1940s. Camus did great in school and he was admitted to the University of Algiers, where he studied philosophy. He had obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy by 1936. Camus during his student years became political, joining first the Communist party and then the Algerian People's Party. He was a champion of…

Before presidencies, there were empires. History, regardless of how or when, the subject is constructed around power, money, territories, and conspiracy. Survival of the fittest. The struggle between three particular world powers throughout the last five decades showcased the most brilliant minds, The Ottoman, British, and French Empires. While the establishment of facts is sure to vary across different cultural backgrounds, most would agree this time in history played a crucial role in how…

illnesses. One of her siblings had a minor head cold, and the border men were skeptical to let her cross until she was proven to not be majorly ill. When Ruth was allowed to enter the United States, her two uncles picked her family up and drove them to Algiers, Louisiana. Not long after, they moved to Gretna, Louisiana, where much of her childhood was…

Thomas Jefferson, a crucial American leader, set the standard of America as a nation politically, economically, and socially. He helped contribute the United States of America to be an independent nation by counting the two party system, land purchases and explorations, the establishment of religious freedom, and the foundation of the Declaration of Independence. “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” Jefferson once said that he believed our liberty is extracted from God…

of Caliban. When understanding Caliban as a victim of colonisation, one must look at who he was before his island and his freedom was taken from him by Prospero. He was birthed on the island by Sycorax, a witch who was banished from her home in Algiers. Prospero defines his birth as him being “littered” (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 283) which is what one would use to describe how animals are born, indicating that Prospero does not see Caliban as human, one sees this in (Act 1 Scene 2, Lines 284-285)…

"Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale's insistence that they be allowed to patrol black neighborhoods with firearms immediately involved them in violent confrontations with the police." (Conlin). The F.B.I soon began planning extreme measures to shut the Black Panther Party down, as well as all of its members. On June 5th James Meredith started a March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson to protest against racism. After police shot him down, the revolution took a turning point. Blacks became more…

This essay will analyse Le Corbusier’s The Radiant City (La Ville Radieuse) by looking at the unbuilt city scape’s historical, theoretical and philosophical background as well as how it was received and reviewed. Greenhalgh’s features of the Pioneer phase (such as Social Morality, Technology and Anti-historicism) will also be looked at in relation to how and why The Radiant City was conceptualised and designed. As the idea of The Radiant City was conceived in the 1930s (and by Modernist…