Oran

The question - Why do I suffer? – functions as one of the foremost features of the human condition. As individuals, we habitually question the purpose of our own suffering and seek to rationalize it. Though universal and inevitable, this suffering may often appear unmerited or unjust. Throughout time, many have claimed a monopoly on this answer. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find a religion or philosophy that neither addresses nor justifies human suffering. Literature as well often…

In The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud, takes off from where Camus’ The Stranger leaves us. He explores the aftermath of that book. While Camus’ story takes place from the point of view of the French in Algeria, Daoud’s story looks at the Arab experience and its result, the main characters wind up in much the same place. It could be that Daoud is telling us that not only are the European and Arabs much alike, there paths will eventually lead them to the same place, despite all their…

When Carrie Nation moved to Kansas in the 1800s, no one ever expected her to be the second coming of the devil. Though Carrie Nation worked in our Civil War and helped our soldiers, what she did after was nobody’s guess. Heinous, Malicious, Blood-Loving, are just a few of the words that epitomize Carrie Nation. Paired with her border line lunatic methods, Carrie Nation has taken the United States as a hostage. In our free market country, Carrie nation has imposed a totalitarian war upon Salon…

termination and even eventually job searching becoming more difficult. This would include job being replaced by technologies and Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and even food stamps would be vanished from society. Out of the National Review company Oran Cass argues that, “Anyone left to rely on the UBI would be unable to afford both Medicare-quality insurance and other essentials” (para 31). In making this comment, Cass urges us to forbid the UBI from making its stand in the world because…

Jennifer Morgan's article “Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder,” argues that dehumanization of African women by European men was the first cause of racism and racialized slavery they went from admiring and respecting African women to overtime slowly deconstructing their humanity by questioning their humanity, there for “demonizing” their existing. Morgan’s ties to convince that this cause the European to link “blackness” with “savageness” and enabled them to justify the enslaving Africans to…

Ferdinand II, the king of Spain, was born on March 10, 1452. He was king of Aragon and king of Castile. He started the entrance of Spain into the time of royal extension. He gather Spanish kingdoms and into the country of Spain. Isabella of Castile, the queen of Spain, was born on October 18, 1469. Her marriage with Ferdinand of Aragon helped Spain become stronger, more powerful, and more successful. Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile union brought their kingdoms together. The union of…

through many trial and error stages. During the first stages of Capturing North Africa the 12th Air Force was in charge of close air support, air superiority, and strategic bombing. Close air support was used mainly during the Allied beach landings at Oran,…

In Albert Camus’ novel, entitled The Plague, he uses assorted rhetorical strategies like plot, commentary, and tone to discuss the meaning of community in the struggle against the inevitability of death. As an existentialist, Camus accepts the inevitability of death, and outlines his idea of life’s meaning by proposing that one can only achieve meaningfulness by fighting death (whether it be through finding true love, chasing happiness, or fighting sickness), realizing its’ inevitability, and…

then, Romans, Vandals, Ummayyids, Abbassids, and Fatimids all controlled the coast at different periods, and by the 1500s, the ports were brought under the nominal control of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman government was represented by officials in Oran and Algiers who received protection from Ottoman military garrisons. By the 19th century, Morocco became independent of Ottoman rule under its own sultan. The rest of the North African port cities were ruled by Ottoman deys who faced fairly…

Jorge Juan y Santacilia was born on January 5, 1713 in Alicante, Spain. He lived on his grandfather's property, El fondonet. Juan’s parents were Bernardo Juan y Canicia and Violante Santacilia y Soler de Cornella. Both of his parents were widowed and remarried. His father died when he was three years old. His uncle Antonio Juan took charge of Jorge and continued his education. Later on another uncle took charge of his education, Chipriano Juan, and sent him to Zaragoza for a preparatory…