Blogs

-I follow a bunch of music blogs, but the best music blog around is RecordLabel. http://www.rcrdlbl.com/
RecordLabel has many different writers with all different tastes in music. You will see posts about all styles and genres of music ranging from rap to indie rock. RecordLabel is the best blog to find the latest great music, and what is great about it is that the music you find on the blog is not usually mainstream music. It is interesting to find great underground music that most people have never heard about.

-If I were to write a blog of my own, it would easily be a music blog. What would make it different from other music blogs would be that there would be different types of posts. Some posts would be about specific songs, others about the artists as a whole, some about albums, and also live concert reviews. Each post would be accompanied by a photo, as well as a video or a mp3.

Camus Essay Continued

According to Meriam-Webster, disconnect is defined as "to become detached or withdrawn." Disconnect clearly defines Mersault's relationship with his mother. Mersault's seemingly indifferent attitude towards everything in his life affected his relationship with his mother. He ended up putting her in a home and rarely visiting her. When he found out the news of her death, he was evidently unaffected by what had happened. The result of his disconnected relationship could have been caused by his later teenage years. Most teenagers today try very hard to disconnect themselves from their parents in order to mature and become more independent. If teenagers become too independent and disconnected they can end up having relationships with their parents similar to Mersault's; however, if they do not gain enough independence, they will not be emotionally ready to go off to college and mature as an adult.

Mersault’s relationship with his mother is easily described as detached and dysfunctional. On the surface, Mersault is very distant from his mother and they don’t seem to have a typical mother-son relationship. Mersault decides to put his mother into a nursing home for the remainder of her life, and barely visits her. When he hears the news of her passing, it almost seems as though going to her funeral is a nuisance. He states at the very beginning of the novel: “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know” (Camus 3).  This disconnected relationship between mother and son must have been caused by something in Mersault’s childhood. Analyzing their relationship, the deep-rooted disconnect must come from Mersault’s teenage years as he was becoming an adult. It seems that as teenagers grow up, they attempt to become more independent and break away from their parents. It seems as though Mersault became too independent, and broke away too much from his mother, ruining their relationship.

Today’s generation of teenagers, I believe more than ever, are trying to break the standard of the traditional mother-child relationship. Even comparing my generation to my parents’ generation, relationships between mother and child have progressed and modernized. It seems that as society progresses, teenagers are attempting to become more independent. According to Nietzsche, a person is in a constant struggle to be an individual. He states: “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

Rough Camus Essay (Intro + Body 1)

According to Meriam-Webster, disconnect is defined as "to become detached or withdrawn." Disconnect clearly defines Mersault's relationship with his mother. Mersault's seemingly indifferent attitude towards everything in his life affected his relationship with his mother. He ended up putting her in a home and rarely visiting her. When he found out the news of her death, he was evidently unaffected by what had happened. The result of his disconnected relationship could have been caused by his later teenage years. Most teenagers today try very hard to disconnect themselves from their parents in order to mature and become more independent. If teenagers become too independent and disconnected they can end up having relationships with their parents similar to Mersault's; however, if they do not gain enough independence, they will not be emotionally ready to go off to college and mature as an adult.

Mersault’s relationship with his mother is easily described as detached and dysfunctional. On the surface, Mersault is very distant from his mother and they don’t seem to have a typical mother-son relationship. Mersault decides to put his mother into a nursing home for the remainder of her life, and barely visits her. When he hears the news of her passing, it almost seems as though going to her funeral is a nuisance. He states at the very beginning of the novel: “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know” (Camus 3).  This disconnected relationship between mother and son must have been caused by something in Mersault’s childhood. Analyzing their relationship, the deep-rooted disconnect must come from Mersault’s teenage years as he was becoming an adult. It seems that as teenagers grow up, they attempt to become more independent and break away from their parents. It seems as though Mersault became too independent, and broke away too much from his mother, ruining their relationship.

Rough Working Intro - Camus Essay

-According to Meriam-Webster, disconnect is defined as "to become detached or withdrawn." Disconnect clearly defines Mersault's relationship with his mother. Mersault's seeminly indifferent attitude towards everything in his life affected his relationship with his mother. He ended up putting her in a home and rarely visiting her. When he found out the news of her death, he was evidently unaffected by what had happened. The result of his disconnected relationship could have been caused by his later teenage years. Most teenagers today try very hard to disconnect themselves from their parents in order to mature and become more independant. If teenagers become too independent and disconnected they can end up having relationships with their parents similar to Mersault's; however, if they do not gain enough independenc, they will not be emotionally ready to go off to college and mature as an adult.

Camus Essay Brainstorm

1. My main point that I am trying to get across is comparing Mersault's disconnected relationship with his mother, with teenager's today and there disconnect from there parents in order to mature and be indepedent. If you disconnect too much, however, you will end up too disconnected and lose all relationship like Mersault.
2. I haven't decided a second work yet but I want it to be the opposite of Mersault and having a relationship that is too connected.

Daily Cup of English IV Tea: The Stranger

-Mersault's statements on page 65 prove the disconnect from his mother. "I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feeling." "I probably did love Maman, but that didn't mean anything."
-My plan for my essay is to compare and contrast Mersault's relationship with his mother to teenager's relationships with their parents in today's society. I will relate the disconnect of Merault to his mom & how in high school, kids today start to disconnect from their parents in order to become independent. Too much disconnect and kids will end up like Mersault, but not enough independence and teens won't be emotionally able to handle growing up, maturing, and going to college.

Daily Cup of English IV Tea: Romania 1975

-In the photograph, there is an extreme contrast between the couple being comfortable and uncomfortable. The man seems to be in a deep sleep where as the woman seems like she is barely asleep, in more of a tossing and turning type of rest. The man is slouched, in an uncomfortable position. The woman's arm on her forhead proves her stress of trying to fall asleep. They couple is comfortable in each others arms; however, their sleep position is extremely uncomfortable.