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Overivew of Engineering Thermodynamics

In nine pages engineering thermodynamics is examined with such topics including heat exchangers and transfer, turbomachinery, nozz...

Contemporary Developments of Walden Pond and What Would Henry David Thoreau Think

first able to ascertain the beauty of something so elusive and grand. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ...

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Transcendentalism

on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the element of satire that exists within Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There is ...

Is the U.S. Government Working for the Individual or the Community?

This 5 page paper discusses whether the U.S. government works for the community as a whole, or for indivdiual interests. The write...

Voluntary Simplicity Doctrine of Henry David Thoreau Expressed in Walden

In three pages this paper discusses how Thoreau described how possessions own individuals instead of the other way around in Walde...

New Jersey Land Use, Right of Way, and Surveying

In eight pages New Jersey land use is examined in a consideration of such topics as surveying and right of way along with the 1949...

Industrialization Problems and Coping Strategies

In seven pages this paper considers how theorists of the nineteenth century proposed to cope with industrialization problems and i...

Society and the Individual

In nine pages this paper discusses society and the individual in a consideration of theories by Hegel, Veblen, Thoreau, Kant, Talc...

Richard Rorty's Dismantling Truth

In six pages Rorty's article is analyzed within the context of its representation of solidarity vs. objectvity. There are no other...

Concepts of Nature and Wilderness

In fourteen pages this paper contrasts and compares modern policies and approaches to land management with the concepts and views ...

The National Health Care System in Canada

Fifteen pages and 14 sources. This paper relates the fact of the increasing discontentment with the universal health care system ...

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr. on Responsibility and Freedom

In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...

Psychological Indeterminism and Determinism

science, man used to think himself a free agent possessing free will. Science gives us, instead, causal determinism wherein every...

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and Man versus Society

In five pages this paper discusses how in Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy thematically develops the conflict of man vs. nature....

Henry James' Turn of the Screw

In five pages this paper emphasizes the governess in a Freudian analysis of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw that also examines ...

Systems of Fiber Optics

In fifteen pages this paper examines fiber optics systems and includes cable specifications, physical composition, light transmiss...

Transcendentalist Ideas of Henry David Thoreau

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

Book of Genesis, 'The Odyssey,' and Order versus Disorder

In 5 pages tis paper discusses the conflict of order vs. disorder as depicted in these ancient Hebrew and Greek texts. There are ...

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,' ...

An Alcoholism Case Study

This paper consists of 14 pages and presents a case study of a 70-year old man that has struggled with alcoholism for a half centu...

Modern Technology Critiques by Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience and Walden

In six pages this paper examines how Thoreau criticized modern technology in these literary works. One source is cited in the bib...

School Prayer and the Perspectives of Socrates, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr.

In 5 pages this paper examines the reactions to public school prayer by this trio of social philosophers and what advice each woul...

Plato and Hegel Comparisons and Contrasts

In six pages the arguments of city vs. state, the individual, and soul and spirit that are raised in Hegel's Introduction to the P...

Materialism and Walden by Henry David Thoreau

rejection of the American dream likely came before he had embarked on this personal journey. He had some insight into the problem ...

Just Law, Unjust Law, and the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...

Law That is Just and Unjust in the Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau II

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...

Justice According to King and Thoreau

In six pages this paper examines the government intervention positions represented by Thoreau and King. Four sources are cited in...

Satirical Elements in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

time without injuring eternity" (Thoreau Chapter 1A Page 10). That is a witticism in itself. Thoreau (1994) said, "The mass ...

Comparison of Socrates, Alexander the Great, and Confucius

assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...