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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...

Virtuous Act of Disobedience

In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...

Reading According to Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper discuses how reading is considered in Thoreau's Walden and in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...

Comparative Analysis of Biographies on Henry David Thoreau

comparing Hardings book, Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography with Finks work, it becomes clear as to how Finks scholarship provides...

Inner Self According to Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...

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...

Internal Reflection and External Expression in the Works of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau

In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...

Civil Disobedience as Viewed by Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's perspectives on civil disobedience as represented in his essay of the same name. Thr...

Philosophical Comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

A Response to Thoreau: “Conscious Endeavor”

The first step in improving ones life is to imagine the "highest moral ideals," then change to "move closer to them" ("Chapter 4")...

Henry David Thoreau and the War in Iraq

to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...

Thoreau on Philanthropy

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

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Thoreau and Bryant's Impacts Upon the Writings of Oliver, Stevens, and Frost

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...

Abolishing the Right to Remain Silent

of checks and balances. The system was seen as sound as if a defendant was guilt the prosecution should be able to build a strin...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

Ideological Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Douglass

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

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...

Nature Concept

and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

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

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...

Thoreau’s Walden Pond

off. This individual is constantly working to get more, perhaps a third vacation house in Caribbean. This is not really life, but ...

Rectificatory Justice: Voluntary and Involuntary

This 4 page paper gives an overview of rectificatory justice according to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. This paper includes dis...

Henry David Thoreau's Concept of Wilderness

He believed nature and the wilderness to be the source of strength, vigor and inspiration. He even referred to the wilderness as ...

Henry David Thoreau's Essays Reviewed

In 5 pages this paper reviews the essays Life Without Principles and Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There are 2 sources cited in ...

Justification for Law Breaking in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

King Lear and Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons

In five pages this paper examines the King's role in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and William Shakespeare's King Lear. The...

Post Myocardial Infarction and Sex Education

In ten pages this paper considers the theories of Betty Neuman and Imogene King regarding sex counseling after a heart attack with...

Martin Luther King's Ideas About Love

to love their oppressors in an affectionate sense. Love in this connection means understanding good will as expressed in the Greek...

Soyinka and Sophocles on the Relationship Between Parent and Child

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...