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Scriptural Simplicity and Thematic Complexity in L’étranger by Albert Camus [PDF]

Uirtus
Albert Camus, in L’étranger, adopts a simple, spare writing style to explore some highly complex themes. The novel is characterized by short, direct sentences, an everyday lexicon and an absence of elaborate figures of speech.
Lakaza Borozi, Piyabalo Bakolou
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Sísifo infeliz No intenso agora

Viso, 2018
No intenso agora é uma meditação sobre o suicídio baseada em uma perspectiva anti-psicológica, de fortes tintas existencialistas. O mito de Sísifo, de Camus, é a obra filosófica com a qual o filme dialoga mais diretamente.
Patrick Pessoa
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Preface to The Pillar of Salt

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011
The first English translation of Albert Camus' "Preface" to Albert Memmi's first book, La Statue de Sel (The Pillar of Salt). Translated with permission by Scott Davidson.
Albert Camus
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Indirect visual odometry with a light-field camera

Intelligent Systems with Applications
Visual odometry is the technique of determining a robot’s pose by analyzing images of its surroundings as it moves. Visual odometry can be categorized into monocular when using a single camera, or stereo when using two cameras or more.
Mohamad Al Assaad, Stéphane Bazeille, Christophe Cudel   +2 more
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From Don Quixote to Zorba, madness and revolt as an ideology in Mohammad Ghazi’s translations

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2019
The present article investigates the role of madness in the translated work of a Kurd translator, Mohammad Ghazi (1914–1998) who translated from 1940 to 1998. The aim of the author is discussing the poetics of madness or Revolt in a man who “speaks truth
Diako Ebrahimi
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Guests, Hosts, Strangers: Far From Men and Camus' Algerians

Film-Philosophy, 2017
I argue that David Oelhoffen's 2014 film Far From Men (Loin des Hommes), while departing from the letter of Camus' 1957 story, “The Guest/Host”, does remarkable cinematic justice to its spirit.
Matthew Sharpe
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A cultura de camu-camu no Brasil [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2011
O camu-camuzeiro (Myrciaria dubia (H.B.K.) McVaugh) e uma das fruteiras tipicamente ama-zonicas, que crescem na beira dos rios e lagos de toda a bacia Amazonica. O seu habitat varia desde solos ferteis da varzea do Peru, onde ha influencia direta dos Andes, ate solos pauperrimos da praia de areia branca do Rio Negro.
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Reflections on the characters of Dr Rieux and Fr Paneloux in Camus’ The Plague in a consideration of human suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, one is drawn to engage with texts that deal with the topic of human suffering. Two texts will be considered in this article. The first is the novel The Plague by Albert Camus, and the second is the Bible.
Wessel Bentley
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The Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
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Common Home Remedies Do Not Deter Argentine Ants, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), from a Preferred Harborage

Insects
In two laboratory trials, natural products, including freshly picked leaves from spearmint, rosemary, and tansy plants, a water extract from soybean plants, peels from a common cucumber, and 1% peppermint oil in hexane, were placed in a moist harborage ...
Jacob B. Holloway, Daniel R. Suiter, Jerry W. Davis, Wayne A. Gardner   +3 more
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