The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1946. The novel begins with Meursault receiving a telegram informing him of his mother’s death. Over the next two weeks after the funeral‚ Meursault carries on like nothing tragic happened. He gets a girlfriend‚ befriends a pimp‚ and goes on a beach vacation with both. During the vacation‚ he and Raymond‚ the pimp‚ get into a fight with the Arabs and Meursault kills one without an explanation for the crime. At the murder trial‚ the court said he was cold-hearted
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To what extent was the United States of America responsible for the collapse of the Grand Alliance? A capitalist state‚ a Communist state and a colonial power all joined power during World War II and formed the Grand Alliance. The United Stated which was led by Franklin Roosevelt‚ the Soviet Union which was led by Joseph Stalin and Great Britain which was led by Winston Churchill united powers as they all shared one main objective. The three leaders were famously known as the big three‚ they all
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Celynn Tu Period 8 Due Date: September 23‚ 2011 Heroes of the 1920s: Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge‚ born John Calvin Coolidge‚ Jr. in Plymouth Notch‚ Vermont‚ was the only U.S. President to be born on Independence Day (July 4‚ 1872). Coolidge’s mother‚ Victoria Josephine Moor‚ died of tuberculosis when he was thirteen. At eighteen his younger sister died as well. Afterwards his father remarried a school teacher in 1891. Later in his life Coolidge married Grace Anna Goodhue‚ on October
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war can be recognised through the metaphors‚ “the spider swings in his bitter geometry” and “telegrams tremble from a wintering tree”. This specifically emphasises the arbitrary pain that affects the people who receive the telegrams. By personifying the telegram and describing it as ‘trembling’‚ it allows the reader to interpret the significance of the news the deliverer is bearing. By contrasting telegrams to the number of falling leaves from a ‘wintering tree’‚ it indicates the colossal number of
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by the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and also was disturbed by the use of Atomic bombs. At the beginning of the letter‚ the president started by greeting Samuel Cavert. Then the president stated his appreciation for Cavert’s telegram‚ which Cavert sent in August 9. After that‚ the president expressed
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Unification of Germany Example Essays. Bismarck Master Planner or Opportunist? | | | | |Bismarck later declared that he had carefully planned unification of Germany in 5 clear | | |steps from 1862. He said that he had planned: 1.To Obtain Russian Neutrality; 2.To trick | |
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When Morse code came to be‚ it was the fastest way to send a message across great distances. Many people had learned Morse code to be able to deliver these messages as a telegram. After Morse code was the telephone. The telephone made it even easier to call someone and talk to them instead of waiting for an answer via telegram (Morse code) or by letter. This later led to the creation of cell phones. Before the invention of the television there was the radio. This was one of the main forms of entertainment
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Language revitalization‚ language revival or reversing language shift is the attempt by interested parties‚ including individuals‚ cultural or community groups‚ governments‚ or political authorities‚ to reverse the decline of a language. If the decline is severe‚ the language may be endangered‚ moribund‚ or extinct. In these cases‚ the goal of language revitalization is often to recover the spoken use of the language. Although the goals of language revitalization vary by community and situation‚
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government a decoded telegram from Germany’s foreign minister‚ Arthur Zimmerman that had been intercepted en route to his ambassador to Mexico. The Zimmerman Telegram authorized the ambassador to offer Mexico the portions of the Southwest it had lost to the United States in the 1840s if it joined the Central Powers. However‚ because Wilson had run for re-election in 1916 on a very popular promise to keep the United States out of the European war‚ he had to handle the telegram very carefully. Wilson
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Joined the War There are many impacting reasons as to why America decided to disregard their neutrality in World War One and fight. Three specific reasons being: the sinking of the British cruise ship “The Lusitania” by German U-boats‚ the Zimmerman telegram from Mexico‚ and propaganda persuading American citizens to join in the war or to remain resisting. Not one specific event caused America to give up their neutral state‚ but multiple ones pushing them over the edge left with only one option‚ which
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