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but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

In five pages the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...

In four pages this essay analyzes Emerson's quote and the philosophies that inspired this outlook....

In six pages this paper considers Ralph Emerson's influence in terms of style of writing and his transcendentalist concept of happ...

himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

Two of Walt Whitman's most famous works, O Captain, My Captain and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, capture the essence o...

this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...

Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...

ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...

the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...

mankind needs to hear. One of those messages is that of the role of poetry, for himself, and for mankind. He sees himself as a t...

stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...

From the other perspective all people are poets through their jobs, their use of symbols, their subconscious adherence to anything...

my eyes,) which nature cannot repair" (Emerson). In this he clearly envisions nature as an entity that can fix all mans problems,...

reform, but a constant, measured effort. Despite Emersons optimism, there is a lot of truth to the idea that Americans now accept...

or the ability to chart their own individual course. Although by all intents and purposes, Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to live a...

of the things which were already history and beyond ones control. This ability was made possible only through true power. ...

they do not understand. Rather, Kant persisted to probe related concepts, an endeavor that would prove extraordinary in the philos...

his will and rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the s...

be true to oneself in solitude, the hammer of outside voices when in the midst of society tends to sway people toward conformity. ...

This feature of transcendentalism is clearly evident in Emersons address. Emerson begins "The Divinity School Address" with a ly...

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

the natural world. Nature, he asserts, is secretive, but at the same time it is human beings who will eventually be able to unlock...

means nothing when they are unable to see beyond what is before them to the heart of the art and the beauty of its simple being. T...

he was unhappy with the idea of being a businessman. Paine, with the soul of a revolutionary, left his small English village and e...

at Concord Academy (1828-33), and at Harvard University, graduating in 1837" (Anonymous Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862) thoreau....

his own creative energy to produce a great career for himself, but he in many ways conformed. He conformed to the needs of society...

In five pages the famous essay written by Emerson is examined in a discussion of how he equated being American with extreme indivi...