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- 71: Capital Punishment
- ... of the several other crimes that have recently been considered as capital crimes such as rape, kidnapping treason, drug trafficking, and espionage. Execution is an unnecessary punishment for murder. Albert Camus wrote, “For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible ...
- 72: Capital Punishment
- ... the way it was used as almost a barbaric and inhumane way to take someone’s life. Yet we still allow our government to follow those same footsteps. As Albert Camus pointed out, "The death penalty violates constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. The grotesque killing of Robert Harris by the state of California on April 21,1992, and similar ...
- 73: In Cold Blood: Death Penalty
- ... changes nothing for those who oppose the death at the hands of the state. The death penalty is irrational- a fact that should carry considerable weight with rationalists. As Albert Camus pointed out, " Capital punishment....has always been a religious punishment and is reconcilable with humanism." In other words, society has long since left behind the archaic and barbous" customs" from ...
- 74: Plagues and Epidemics
- ... this phenomena. In the case of Oran, the people raced to find a culprit for the sudden invasion of their town, which became the unrepentant man. This is one of Camus’ major themes; The way a society deals with an epidemic is to blame it one someone else. Twenty years ago, when AIDS emerged in the US, homosexual men became the ...
- 75: Into The Abyss Marquis De Sade
- ... years his work has been buried. Whatever the individual may think of him, his work is nonetheless both significant and relevant. Aspects of Social Darwinism, concepts that would influence Freud, Camus, Nietzche and others decades after him would all cite Sade. Sade is disturbing not because he is demented, but because his arrival of his conclusions is logical. Crocker argues that ...
- 76: In Cold Blood - Death Penalty
- ... changes nothing for those who oppose the death at the hands of the state. The death penalty is irrational- a fact that should carry considerable weight with rationalists. As Albert Camus pointed out, " Capital punishment....has always been a religious punishment and is reconcilable with humanism." In other words, society has long since left behind the archaic and barbous" customs" from ...
- 77: The Motif Of War In A Separate
- ... used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves." (Albert Camus (1913-60), French-Algerian philosopher, author.)
- 78: Crime and Punishment and The Outsider: Self Discovery
- ... Outsider: Self Discovery In every society, it is important for individuals to adhere to a set of principles in order to maintain order. In Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Camus' The Outsider , however, both protagonists ignored the values of their society. Raskolnikov and Meursault felt their own beliefs were significant, and through their actions they were able to express them ...
- 79: Themes in "The Stranger" and "Waiting for Godot"
- Themes in "The Stranger" and "Waiting for Godot" Albert Camus's novel, The Stranger, and Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, are both great literary works but has many differences and similarities that distinguish the two. These characters are ...
- 80: The Outsider: Meursault
- ... black tie to “the vigil”. This is an admirable quality as despite his alternative views he still conforms to socities standards when he feels it is pertinent. In the afterword Camus describes the court in an extremely paradoxical statement that “any man who doesn't cry at his monther's funeral is liable to be condemned to death”, Meursault is condemned ...
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