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    Algeria is a North African Mediterranean Country, dominantly populated by Sunni Muslims. Multiple Arabic and Berber dialects are spoken throughout the land. The majority of North African countries have defined cultural identifies, however Algeria lacks a firm cultural foundation and has become somewhat of a piecemeal (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, 2011). Algeria was not always been independent and has been a part of several border and authority changes. Since its independency

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    his reactions. Name: Oran Hartin Age: 17 Sport: Gaelic Football Weight: 82kg Level: County Minors Height: 188cm Position: Goalkeeper Occupation: Student/Part Time Pizza Bar BMR: 2014.6 See Appendix A1 Energy Expenditure: 3122.63 See Appendix A2 BMI: (NHS, 2016) Calories per day Monday- today Oran ate 1946 calories on this

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    events that eventually culminate in the death of Meursault. In The Plague, also by Camus, a social commentary on the way that humans react to difficult situations is created. The novel is set in Oran, North Africa, a small town where the people appear to take life for

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    fulfill himself, although denying to be an existentialist himself. In this novel, Camus sets the story in Oran, Algeria, coincidently , where he grew up. He describes the town as dull, boring, and soulless almost. “ The town itself, let us admit, is ugly”. (Camus, p. 1) The author is showing us that there is nothing really special about Oran, or in existentialist terms, the people don’t make Oran special. Their only concern, or their only focus, was conducting what they called “business”; nothing more

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    magistrate of Oran, exemplifies the phases of existence and revolt as seen in the novel. Regarding existence, M. Othon is a viewed by the town as a conservative judge with little sympathy for lawbreakers. His conservatism is visible in that he approved of Father Paneloux’s traditional words of God’s wrath and retribution: “M. Othon, the magistrate, assured Dr. Rieux that he had found the preacher's arguments ‘absolutely irrefutable’” (100). Paneloux declared that God was punishing Oran for its sin

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    In The Plague, before the citizens of Oran realized that the plague would be a battle that they would have to fight together, ‘’each individual citizen had gone about his business as usual’’(67). It was when the proclamation was made that the plague was officially a danger to the society that the citizens of Oran realized that they were ‘’all in the same boat’’(67). Here, Camus suggests that people cannot be indifferent to

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    Personal Narrative Essay

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    Deep in Unova, a forest was alive with the sounds of bug and bird Pokémon. A newly hatched Sewaddle crawled along the branch of a tall Oran berry tree, eyeing a particularly large, juicy looking Oran berry dangling tauntingly above its head. The small bug Pokémon reached up with two of its stubby legs, resting its body weight on its remaining four. Unfortunately for the Sewaddle, the berry was still out of reach. Growing frustrated, the little Pokémon raised its body higher and stood on only two

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    As Twain wrote “The War Prayer,” his rhetoric comes out as very sarcastic tone about “patriotism” (Oran 67). Twain feels that patriotism is sometimes blind with unjust reasons. His reasoning behind this sarcasm ultimately leads back to what is occurring around him during this time and how he truly feels about the situation. Twain’s main purpose in writing

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    Theme Of The Plague

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    very sad and describes people’s actions during a hard time like this. In the novel the plague is a symbol of many things cruelty, harshness, the human conditions, it can also be related to war, but all of them mean suffering and death. The people of Oran are not accustomed to suffering before the arrival of the plague. Their life was normal and comfortable, nothing unusual, with very few extremes. The way how they deal with the plague and suffering differ in several ways. At the beginning people try

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    1. Problem Statement - How do Allied forces control sea lines of communications and Land lines of communication in Mediterranean and North Africa for continued access to Persian Gulf oil? Current State: Political – The Vichy French government went into collaboration with the Nazis therefore preventing German forces from having to occupy the French Northwest Africa and securing the Axis flank/rear. Military – All of North Africa and Southern Mediterranean minus Egypt were under Axis control either

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