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In eight pages this paper analyzes Tolstoy's protagonist and considers how this short story explores the value and meaning of life...

In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...

In two pages the implications of the social treatment Tolstoy's protagonist received are discussed. There is no bibliography incl...

Vasili Kuragin. Also through their conversation, the reader is first introduced to Prince Vasilis sons, Ippolit and Anatol. The ...

In five pages a comparison between these two authors and the depiction of morality, relationships, and motivations are considered ...

into the dissipations of Moscows high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform" (Anonymous About Leo T...

Pavlovna is having a party where Prince Vasily, Prince Andrei, Pierre and others are gathered to enjoy the evenings festivities. H...

2005). This was clearly illegal and those in the Middle East worried that he would try to take over more nations. Certainly, it wa...

kind of holistic pattern, into which all experiences must be forced to fit....

him to commit suicide. Judge Brack discerns Heddas duplicity in Lovborgs downfall and insinuates that he will hold this over her. ...

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...

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

coffee break, and theyll jog around the block" (Jordan). Fat people, on the other hand, are far more real and "Fat people...will l...

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at illegal workers. A case is made for civil disobedience as an ethical response. Pape...

Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

provides a more peaceful perspective and make environmental civil disobedience known. Civil disobedience in many ways highlights t...

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

for their own activities. Mankind all too often, in fact, views wilderness is something to be constrained and tamed. This is tru...