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critically acclaimed novel, Camus carefully develops Meursault’s nonconformist character and explains how that personality causes a series of events that ultimately ends in Meursault’s death.Meursault’s emotionless behaviors clearly reveal his nonconformity to society. For example, Meursault could never express any

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community conform in some way to social norms, yet to label someone a conformist is akin to labeling them ignorant and unoriginal. However, conformity - and its associated impacts - are as integral to the functioning of society as the principles of nonconformity. Conformity is often positively utilised to induce positive social change nationally and internationally. It prompts dissemination of workload, provides protection (‘strength in numbers’), and encourages strict rule enforcement. Although less appreciated

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excites you. Dress in whatever makes you feel vibrant, self-confident and unique. Travel to Machu Picchu because YOU want to, not because the guidebook says it's the #1 tourist spot to visit in Peru. But, these are all practices of superficial nonconformity. The real grit comes when individuals are challenged with systems, practices, religion, and doctrines as a whole that contradict what might be morally right. But but since they are the mainstream, no one has the ability to question them. As exemplified

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Nonconformity is a transcendentalist tenet that aligns with forming your own beliefs, expressing yourself, and going against the standards the world has set for you. Rage Against the Machine is a band that aligns themselves with these beliefs by exposing the corruption of the United States government while also fighting for the rights of the people through their thought provoking lyrics, which often exhibit ideas of nonconformity.In Rage Against the Machine’s hit song Know Your Enemy, singer Zack

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Stargirl is a story of nonconformity. It is told from the perspective of Leo Borlock, who is in his junior year of high school as an unusual girl who was everything Mica Area High School had ever seen. When Leo was younger, his uncle had given him a porcupine necktie as a goodbye gift, inspiring him to collect similar ones. When he was 12, he moved from Pennsylvania to Mica, Arizona. From there on out, his life in Mica was seemingly normal. That was until he was a junior in high school. On the first

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should be free to be nonconformists. First, the reader sees nonconformity when Mica High students first see Stargirl. Leo tells the readers how Stargirl is different in the lunchroom. “She did not carry a lunch tray. She did carry a large canvas bag with a life size sunflower painted on it” (Spinelli 3).

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thats he took the road that not many people have taken. The poem speaks about conformity, therefore one road is giving in to conformity while the other is not. The narrator then chooses the road less traveled which I perceive it to be the road of nonconformity due to the fact that not many people travel down that

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There is a few information in the reading that I found interesting and valuable to me personally. I found the information on oppression related to sexual orientation and gender nonconformity relevant to me personally. I have an uncle who was always known as a ‘homosexual;’ but today, he is part of a different type of the LGBT community (transgender). This week’s reading helped me understand sexual diversity and further identify the world in which he exists.1) The issues surrounding LGBTs

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directly challenging the idea that a name defines who a persons identity is, suggesting that she believes names hold no significance. Juliet stating “And ill no longer be a capsule” shows her willingness to abandon her family name, and showing her nonconformity to the social norms of the time, showing how she chooses love and identity over tradition and family norms. However, while Juliet's defiance is a bold gesture for her and Romeo's love, it also does not come without consequences as later in the

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The discussion of norms and the rules a society sets brings to question those actions that are considered to be outliers. The subject of nonconformity is more than a mere steer-away from society, but rather a full deviation from the expectations and actions people are typically used to seeing around them. Members of a society can deviate from cultural norms in two different situations. Most might think that when one commits a crime, they are exemplifying the meaning of deviance. Violating formal

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