Abstract This paper discusses what makes Albert Einstein a hero. The writer claims that according to the definitions in Webster's Dictionary, Einstein was indeed a hero of the world community. The paper gives examples from the life and work of Albert Einstein to show that, unlike heroes of legend, Einstein was a modern hero.
From the Paper "Because of the anti-semitism he experienced and his dislike of the German military character, Einstein renounced his German citizenship in 1896 and was granted Swiss citizenship in 1901. He attended college in Zurich graduating in 1900 as a teacher of mathematics. In 1905 he earned a doctorate from the University of Zurich. It was also in 1905 that he wrote his revolutionary paper on the special theory of relativity. By 1909 he was recognized as a leading scientific thinker. In 1914 he returned to Germany to take up a prestigious research post. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 not for his theory of relativity but for his work on the photoelectric effect. He accepted a post at Princeton University and came to the United States in 1932, becoming a citizen in 1940 (Mathematicians/Einstein)."
Tags: mathematics, legend, science, research, Nobel
Abstract The paper focuses on one of the most popular forms of therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), that developed from Albert Ellis' discovery of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). The paper describes how the development of REBT changed the way therapists counsel and help patients overcome self-limiting behaviors so they may live more self-fulfilling and satisfying lives, no matter their past history.
Outline:
Introduction
Overview of REBT
Albert Ellis - The Pioneer of Paradigms
Conclusions
From the Paper "Many theorists contributed to the psychology field including Albert Ellis, who, in 1955 was credited with discovering a new type of psychotherapy he called "rational emotive behavior therapy" or REBT. Many consider the discovery of this form of psychotherapy one of the greatest of all time, and many credit Dr. Albert Ellis as being one of the "most influential psychologists of all time" (AEI, 2007). REBT is according to many, the earliest beginning of what psychologists now refer to as "CBT" or cognitive behavioral therapy, which requires an individual review of their beliefs, morals, values and thought processes that direct behavior (Ellis, 2000a)."
Abstract This paper examines how Albert Einstein redesigned modern physics and developed the currently controversial topic of nuclear proliferation, with the creation of the atomic bomb in 1945. It looks at how the outstretch of his impact went even further with his pacifist and Jewish beliefs, establishing connections with Israel and globally influencing the concept of God in scientific studies. The paper attempts to show Albert Einstein's meritorious career created a significant movement within the 20th century, but the roots of his legacy began in Germany in 1879.
From the Paper "The colorful facade of Einstein's personality faded as the glooming presence of Hitler and Germany emerged. Throughout Zionism and all of his pacifism, Einstein was completely against violence, war, or anything of the like. He did not believe that he could split the atom, much less want it to happen. In 1938, three chemists found that the splitting of a uranium atom yields nuclear fission, which expels an intense wave of energy--enough to power a bomb. The years 1940 and 1941 saw comprehensive listings of data that confirmed the reality of a bomb made by this technique. Physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to write a letter to President Roosevelt and assisted him in drafting it. The famous letter to Roosevelt produced the biggest impact of his career."
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss two works by Albert Camus, ?The Stranger,? and two stories from ?Exile and the Kingdom.? The writer gives a brief biography of Camus in order to give the reader a good understanding about how his own background and personality traits influenced the themes found in his writings. Using examples from the stories, the writer makes five different comparisons about sex, family, love, life, emotions and the commission of a crime.
From the Paper "He reacts the same way with the other characters in the story. There is no love, passion, or caring about them, he interacts with them simply because they are there, and he has nothing better to do. Before he kills the Arab on the beach, he says to himself, ?To go or to stay, amount to the same thing.? That is how he looks at everything around him, with great indifference."
Abstract This paper examines two modern day theorists that have had a major impact on psychology--Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck. Ellis is known as the founder of rational-emotive therapy and Beck is known as the founder of cognitive therapy. The paper evaluates how both Ellis and Beck are inspirational for their approaches to therapy, for the therapies they pioneered and for the impact these therapies have had. It considers both the approaches and the therapies of Ellis and Beck in turn.
From the Paper "Ellis's theory is based on the belief that psychological problems are caused by irrational beliefs that people have gained by some experience in the past. These irrational beliefs cause people to overreact to situations. In one work describing how the theory is applied, Ellis offers the example of a woman who is rejected by her partner. According to Ellis, if the woman has emotional difficulties she responds to this rejection in an excessive way. Instead of thinking that it is undesirable to be rejected she believes she is a worthless person because she is rejected and believes that she will never be accepted by anyone (Ellis, 1979). To deal with these emotional problems, Ellis proposed rational-emotive therapy. This therapy is based on the idea that the therapist's role is to teach the individual to think logically. Unlike many therapists, Ellis did not believe that the patient should guide their own thinking."
Abstract This paper presents an intellectual biography of Albert Einstein. It considers the influence of his society on his development and theories and the impacts of his theories on society and science.
Abstract This ten-page undergraduate paper examines the architecture of Albert Speer, and analyzes his guiding principles, the ideas behind his work, his innovative techniques, and his position within the Neoclassical movement in the Third Reich.
Abstract This paper describes the life of the French philosopher Albert Camus from his birth in Mondovi, Algeria on November 7, 1913 to his tragic death in an automobile accident on January 4, 1960. It looks at his childhood, education, family life as well as his activity in socialist and libertarian politics and in the promotion of the arts and culture. It also examines his philosophies and various publications including "L'Etranger" ("The Stranger" or more commonly known as "The Outsider") and "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or "The Myth of Sisyphus".
From the Paper "After a long recuperative period Camus continued to pursue his philosophical studies under the weighty influence of his professor and intellectual guide Jean Grenier. "It was during this period that Albert Camus discovered he wanted to write" (53). During 1932 Camus became a published writer when four of his essays were published as articles in a small, monthly literary and art review called Sud. By this time the student had begun composing a series of prose poems and had also joined a group that was publishing a weekly newspaper dedicated to raising Moslem consciousness."
Abstract This paper discusses how, out of all the Nazi leaders aligned with Adolph Hitler, Albert Speer stands out as one of the greatest mysteries. It attempts to discover how such a refined, well-educated man, from such a good background, ended up as second-in-command to one of the century's most abusive and tyrannical despots. Through a review of his autobiography, "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs", it shows how, although he was born to a wealthy family, well-educated, son of a respected architect, and trained as an architect, Speer seems a tremendous misfit when compared to the army private who terrorized the entire Western world for more than decade.
From the Paper "Speer acknowledged that he quickly came to accept events that most people would have been appalled by. Early in Speer's new career, Hitler ordered Speer to remodel a building immediately. One official by the name of Papen asked for a few months? time, and Speer reported this back to Hitler. Hitler was enraged, so Speer began one of Papen's assistants had been executed in his office. Speer, supervising the renovations, saw the blood on the floor, but was strangely unmoved by the sight. This suggests to the reader that it wasn?t really much of a stretch for Speer to accept what many people would have found entirely unacceptable. Nevertheless, the irresistible draw the architectural opportunities had for him clearly were immense."
Abstract This paper presents a positive review of Gitta Sereney's book about Adolph Hitler's personal architect and close friend, Albert Speer. The paper looks at the quality of the source material Sereny uses for her book, how Sereny is able to get into the psyche of Speer and adeptly depict his character, and what Sereny's objectives were in writing the book.
From the Paper "Steeped in controversy and tainted by his legacy as Hitler's personal architect and close friend, Albert Speer is a difficult historical figure to portray and to pinpoint. Gitta Sereny explores the life and the mind of this complex man with brilliant insight, historical awareness, and sensitivity, as she examines the surprising moral conflicts that Speer faced later in his life, especially after the Nuremberg trials. As the only member of Hitler's inner circle to be spared from the death penalty, Speer had ample time before his death in 1981 to reflect on his role in Nazi atrocities. Although Speer ostensibly never killed a soul, nor did he outwardly perform any act of violence or hatred, he nevertheless supported and loved the man who ordered the brutal deaths of millions of Jews as well as Catholics, gypsies, and homosexuals."
Abstract This paper provides a brief biographical account of writer, Albert Camus, and then delves into an analysis of some of his works. Specifically, the paper focuses on three of Camus's novels, "The Stranger", "The Plague", and "The Myth of Sisyphus". The paper explains Camus's philosophical conception concerning the contradiction between man being a rational being but existing in an irrational world, as well as the current of existentialism running throughout the novels.
From the Paper "Albert Camus was born on the 7th of November 1913 in Algeria from a French father and a Spanish mother. His father died in the First World War (seriously wounded in the battle of the Marne, he died a month later), so that Camus was raised by his mother and never knew his father. Camus spent his childhood in Alger, in his grandmother's house, where he received his first education. Later on, he passed onto to primary school under the tutorship of Louis German, to whom Camus will bear a strong gratitude his whole life and whom he mentioned in his acceptance speech upon winning the Nobel price in 1957. It was German that first encouraged Albert Camus in his studies and who convinced him to pursue a higher education within the Algiers University. During his time at the university, he founded the Th?"tre du Travail in Algiers, where his first play, R"volte dans les Asturies, was put on scene. After earning a degree in philosophy, Camus quickly established himself as one of the most notable writers of the 20th century with novels like The Stranger (1946), The Plague (1948) and The Myth of Sisyphus (1955). Writer and novelist, philosopher, leader of the absurd school of thought, playwright, actor and translator, Camus was one of the most important literary figure of the 20th century. His life came to a tragic end on the 4th of January 1960, when he was killed in a car crash together with his friend and editor, Michel Gallimard. Ironically enough, Camus had intended to return to Paris by train, because of his dislike for cars, and a return rail ticket was found in his pocket."
Abstract This paper looks at the now cold case of the Boston Strangler from the 1950s. The author examines the life of Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to the crimes, but was murdered before he could be tried and convicted. The paper attempts to determine whether DeSalvo was in fact the strangler, based on his previous criminal convictions and other personal details.
From the Paper "Whether his stories of maltreatment are true is questionable, as he tended to be a braggart from childhood. He told of seeing his father knock out all his mother's teeth and then break all her fingers, as well as hitting Albert in the back with a pipe for moving to slowly. He also claimed his father sold him, along with his two sisters to a farmer in Maine for nine dollars, to be used as slave labor. DeSalvo also claimed that his father would bring prostitutes to their home and then strike his mother in front of them. This abuse continued until Frank and Charlotte DeSalvo divorced in 1944 (http://home1.inet.tele.dk/shilsta/killer1.htm)."
Abstract The writer of this paper details the plot and main characters in Albert Camus' "The Fall" which is the story of a self-proclaimed penitent judge, who gets his thrills from confessing his own sins in order to implicate others whom he may then judge. The paper examines the novel's themes of penitence, redemption, guilt and grace. The writer contends and explains why the narrator in "The Fall" has never been authentic while detailing the reasons for his eventual fall from grace. The writer analyzes the true meaning of "The Fall," which at first seems difficult to grasp, unless one makes the assumption that the narrator speaks for the author as the voice of wisdom and reason.
From the Paper "The meaning of this story may seem very difficult to grasp if one makes the assumption that the narrator speaks for the author as a voice of wisdom and reason. Actually, no such assumption needs to be made. Camus is well known for writing ironic works in which the speaker is not a mouth-piece for virtue. A key to this work may be found in something which Camus wrote shortly before-hand regarding his falling-out with Sartre. "Existentialists! Whenever they accuse themselves, you can be sure it is invariably in order to assail others. [they are] Penitent judges." Because of this quote, and the similarities between certain elements of the story's philosophy and that of the existentialists, some critics consider this story to be "at least in part a mordant satire directed against Sartre and the philosophical position for which he stood." If this is the case, then we are being happily invited to mock the ideas of the narrator, who thinks that human society and esteem is enough to make one justified, or that there is meaning in such an interplay of guilt and righteousness."
Abstract This paper studies the psychologist Albert Ellis and his model for rational emotive therapy. The paper critiques and evaluates Ellis' work in terms of modern ideas in psychology. The paper provides an in-depth description of Ellis' lifetime achievements, including his theory and methods of therapy and how they contributed to the field of psychology. The paper also addresses Ellis' formative experiences.
From the Paper "Albert Ellis is the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and the President of the Albert Ellis Institute. He has been referred to as one of the most influential psychotherapists in America..."
Abstract The paper explains Albert Einstein's views that serious scientific workers represent the only profoundly religious people, as presented in his essay "My Views."
From the Paper "My Views;" An essay by Albert Einstein seeks to convince readers that serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people. In this essay Einstein discusses his views on the purpose of nature and meaning of life, coming to the conclusion that only those individuals who ascend to a third stage of religious experience, cosmic religious feeling, keep true religious feeling alive through the arts and sciences."
Tags: music, universality, religion, myth, universe, existence, meaning
