Albert Ellis

Punishment can only be conquered through pride and rebellion. The myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, describes a comical hero who is happy in the face of terrible and eternal punishment in the underworld. Camus explains Sisyphus’s happiness in that “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn”…

Personal History I was born in Chattanooga, TN on March 18th 1992. I have one sibling, a brother that was born in 1993 in September. My parents married young and have been together for 20+ years now. My mother is a flight attendant and my father works on computers. Even though, my parents love each other they often argue a lot and to be quite honest I don’t remember much of my childhood. The memories are vague. I do, however remember spending time with my great-grandmother and she was…

Willy’s death is avoidable. He fills himself with imaginary thoughts that are distinctively different from the world of realities. He lives in a wishful world rather than focusing on the present situations. This is illustrated by his desire to give in to the pressures of modern America, characterized by material things such as new appliances. Willy’s proud and selfish nature largely contributed to his ultimate death as well, as he cannot accept his failures. He further ends up betraying his…

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…