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Ideological Differences Between Thomas Jefferson and Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper examines the ideological differences between Jefferson's and Thoreau's views regarding the citizen and th...

Nature and Henry David Thoreau

In five pages Thoreau's Walden Pond is examined in a consideration of the author's portrayal of nature. Two sources are cited in ...

Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

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

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

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

Reflections of Democracy in Henry David Thoreau's Life Without Principle, Resistance to Civil Government and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance

In five pages a comparative analysis of democracy as it is represented in these essays is presented. Four sources are cited in th...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five ways the protagonist Frederic Henry's transformation from boy to man through his wartime experience and romance with Cathe...

Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King Jr.

being. If it was all the same to them, he must have said, Ill stay where I am. His famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" were pub...

Civil Rights and Political Action

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Civil Disobedience and Civil Rights Leaders

Malcolm X who had such ideas, and his concept had nothing to do with changing class problems, but with race. The notion that soci...

Renaissance Culture: Donatello, Michelangelo and Shakesepare

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...

Thoreau on Philanthropy

ones fellow-man in the broadest sense" (Thoreau 55). Philanthropists, he insists, have never sincerely proposed to do him, or peop...

Emerson and Thoreau and the War in Iraq

personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Analyzing King Henry's Statement to Prince Hal in III.iii 93-96 of Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare

Hal was more interested in the gossip at the local taverns than he was in matters of state. Henry IVs cousin, Richard, who became...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

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

An Analysis of Louis Fischer's, The Essential Gandhi

courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....

Ethics, Eco Sabotage and Civil Disobedience

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

Civil Disobedience Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

Apology of Plato and Civil Disobedience

citizen was guaranteed the right to be heard in an Athenian court. Since the government structure was founded on the principle th...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

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...

EcoTerrorism and Eco Sabotage vs. Civil Disobedience

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

Life and Legacy of Indian Political Activist Mohandas K. Gandhi

In eight pages this paper discusses the life and activism of this influential advocate of civil disobedience and questions his com...

A look at Gandhi

Gandhi is discussed from a social work perspective. Various aspects of his achievements are explored. The micro, macro and mezzo l...

Relations Between Jews and African Americans

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the views on relations between African Americans and Jews based upon the contrastin...

Globalization, Postmodernism, and Civil Disobedience

In ten pages postmodernism is considered in terms of globalization and how it has affected civil disobedience practices. Eight so...