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

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

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

This article is reviewed and analyzed in a reaction paper consisting of two pages. The article is cited but there is no bibliogra...

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

time, cats were associated with Satanism. One medieval pope actually issued a decree that all the cats in Christendom should be ki...

In five pages an article in which Benetar claims it is better not to be born along with an offered opposing position is examined. ...

knew who he was. He relied on the fact that people loved and adored him. For the most part we, as readers and people with knowledg...

the Shepherds Crusade, as Nirenberg posits that this was, indeed, the case, that is, that the poor people who enacted the violence...

hes already delivered powerful works on the Middle East (Arab and Jew) and race (A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in Amer...

In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

sun traveled at night" (Carrasco 35). The game was viewed as a representation of a cosmic struggle in which the players competed t...

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

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

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

2002, p. 125). As this suggests, philosophically, Thoreau carried little for the present and his aspiration was for his writing ...

those external standards that are often the most telling in terms of the underlying historical perspective offered within the art....

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

in subsiding; however, the modern age has finally brought a semblance of gender equality. However, many men, such as the diplomat,...

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

of ordering the markers, with the "quality review office" determining "that all of these procedures are being performed as specifi...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

The first factor that any paper of this type will need is a theme, or a thesis statement. The thesis statement is one on which th...

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

he wants. This becomes a central theme in many of Ives works, and one that highlights the sense of optimism which Ives disperses ...