Essays 1 - 30
In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...
In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's views on railroads through an analysis of Walden passages....
In 5 pages this paper reviews the essays Life Without Principles and Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There are 2 sources cited in ...
He believed nature and the wilderness to be the source of strength, vigor and inspiration. He even referred to the wilderness as ...
In six pages this paper examines how Thoreau criticized modern technology in these literary works. One source is cited in the bib...
theirs. Thoreau wanted to follow natures example, to "see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, ...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses the element of satire that exists within Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There is ...
rejection of the American dream likely came before he had embarked on this personal journey. He had some insight into the problem ...
first able to ascertain the beauty of something so elusive and grand. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ...
time without injuring eternity" (Thoreau Chapter 1A Page 10). That is a witticism in itself. Thoreau (1994) said, "The mass ...
In five pages this paper examines the ideological differences between Jefferson's and Thoreau's views regarding the citizen and th...
In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...
In six pages this paper discusses how the self reliance philosophy was conceptualized in a contrast and comparison of the perspect...
In five pages Thoreau's Walden Pond is examined in a consideration of the author's portrayal of nature. Two sources are cited in ...
In three pages this paper discusses how Thoreau described how possessions own individuals instead of the other way around in Walde...
In five pages this paper discuses how reading is considered in Thoreau's Walden and in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...
comparing Hardings book, Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography with Finks work, it becomes clear as to how Finks scholarship provides...
In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...
In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...
In 5 pages this paper examines the reactions to public school prayer by this trio of social philosophers and what advice each woul...
In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...
of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....
In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...
He describes, for instance, the different kinds of activities which he undertakes in the course...
be? soliloquy that we are allowed an insight into the extent of his grief and suicidal tendencies, and in O, what a rogue and peas...
a serious subject for examination. Unjust Laws Exist Thoreau had chosen to life that was in some respects that of a recluse an...
pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...
respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...
at Concord Academy (1828-33), and at Harvard University, graduating in 1837" (Anonymous Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862) thoreau....
best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...