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Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Social Inequities According to Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Eugene O'Neill

just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...

Case Law and Issues Involving Gay Marriage

In five pages this paper examines the various issues and case law pertaining gay marriages with Stan Baker et al. vs. State of Ver...

Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau and American Individualism

printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...

Traditional and For Profit Colleges Enrollment Practices

In fifteen pages this research paper compares the enrollment practices of for profit institutions vs. the traditonal colleges that...

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Transportation, Public vs. Private

from sheer numbers. Cars us an incredible amount of our natural resources -- not just oil, but all the material needed to make a c...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau and the Time Concept

He describes, for instance, the different kinds of activities which he undertakes in the course...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

Violence, Conflicts, Contact

In five pages culture and contact, a conflict that often escalates into violence, are examined with references to three books Jiha...

Solitude Perspectives of May Sarton and Henry David Thoreau

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...

How To Invest Wisely

this level. The top tier of the wedding cake is synonymous with very short-term savings for things like emergencies. Since this mo...

Unjust Laws According to Henry David Thoreau

a serious subject for examination. Unjust Laws Exist Thoreau had chosen to life that was in some respects that of a recluse an...

Nature, Nurture, and Individual Behavior

extend their lives, and in some cases may even, in conjunction with available medicines, send the cancer into remission. Doctors c...

Medieval Romance Silence by Sarah Roche Mahdi

In six pages this paper discuses the nature vs. nurture conflict affecting Silence in terms of gender roles and how her father Cad...

Overview of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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, ...

Opposites and Conflict in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...

Probation versus Jail and Recidivism Rates

when they have only served probation rather than having been incarcerated. The study in England was also based on a population ma...

Nurture vs. Nature in an Exploration of Criminal Behavior

biological determinism and the changing values of our day which expose us on a daily basis to such concepts as criminal deviancy h...

Nurture, Nature, and Dislike of Certain Foods

II. TEENAGERS AND CONDITIONED RESPONSE Teenagers are notorious for disliking most foods that have any nutritive value to them, in...

Individuality and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Henry David Thoreau

respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...

Gender Roles and Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...

Accountant Responsibilities

(2008) provides information about the cycle of accounting. It begins with the opening balance sheet and tracks day-to-day business...

Definition of Globalization and its Dangers

expense of myriad unsophisticated societies. As such, this dichotomy of progression has rendered globalization a much-contested c...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

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

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Analyzing The Bacchae by Euripides'

before establishing their own enclave in the Cithaeron wilderness. Young King Pentheus vows to keep his empire intact and dedicat...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

Nietzsche's Philosophy

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...