![]() ![]() Although Camus later tried to distance himself from the concept of Existentialism, critics still place him there and his own ideas were influenced by the forum of Sartre and other Existentialist philosophers of the time. He was interested in living life and the struggle for meaning without the distraction of dreams and fabrications. Due to Camus' working-class upbringing, he grows up with a suspicion toward idealism and introspection. These influences and moods helped formulate the philosophies of Existentialism and the Absurd as associated with Sartre and Camus. Faulkner, Hemingway, and Dos Passos were translated into French and many guess that their styles and concepts made their way into the philosophy of Camus at this time. Sartre was struggling against the shallow rationalism of Cartesian thought. ![]() ![]() German phenomenology was flowing into France. Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky had remained significant in thought since the turn of the century. Camus was influenced by a diverse collection of foreign authors and philosophies in the 1930s. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() With degrees in English lit and human rights, she loves stories that reflect the humor and emotion of real life. Kat’s slowly adjusting to life in a place where bicycles and cows seem to outnumber people. She and her British husband now live in a small town in the rural Netherlands surrounded by miles and miles of green pasture, canals and Shetland ponies. She spent several years teaching English in Prague followed by several more working for a humanitarian organization in London. ![]() She’s a California girl who moved to Europe the day after graduating from UCLA, ditching her tank tops for raincoats. Kat Latham writes sexy contemporary romance, including the London Legends rugby series. ![]() ![]() ![]() She had her come-to-Jesus moment there in middle school.Īfter their father left, Nana became Gifty’s primary caretaker. ![]() Gifty was raised in this church as a child she accepted its teachings without question. Soon after coming to Alabama, Gifty's mother joined the Pentecostal First Assemblies of God Church, a primarily white church, since she didn’t yet know enough about America to realize that churches there have either Black or white congregations. But when Gifty was still a preschooler, the Chin Chin Man went back to Ghana for a visit and never returned. By the time Gifty was born, her father was working as a school janitor and was the primary parent for the children while their mother worked the night shift. In America, Gifty’s mother worked as a home health aide. Gifty herself was a surprise baby, born when her mother was 40. Soon after, Gifty’s father, the Chin Chin Man, followed them. ![]() ![]() Gifty’s mother wanted to give her first-born son, Nana, a better life, so she immigrated to America from Ghana when he was a baby. As Gifty splits her time between taking care of her mother and working on her experiments, she reminisces about her childhood and considers the way religion and science have shaped her life. Gifty asks Pastor John to put her mother on a plane to California so she can take care of her mother. As Gifty plugs away at the experiments necessary for her doctoral thesis about the neurological pathways of addiction and depression, she receives word from Pastor John that her mother is experiencing another major depressive episode. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 13 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.12 BirdLife International, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Center, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, 1149-041 Lisboa, Portugal.11 Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.10 CONACYT - Research Center of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Universidad Autonoma del Carmen, Campeche 24180, Mexico Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan, Yucatan 97205, Mexico.9 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.8 Conservation Department, Phillip Island, Nature Parks, Victoria, Australia.7 Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.6 University Programs, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL 36528, USA Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688, USA.5 Wildlife Conservation Society, Marine Program, Buenos Aires, 1414 Argentina.4 Population Ecology Division, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A2, Canada.3 NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA 93940, USA.Electronic address: 2 Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD 20688, USA. 1 Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. ![]() |