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Work, Is It Essential for Human Flourishing?

is it essential for human flourishing? The online edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary [http://www.merriam-webster.com] defin...

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...

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...

American Identity Development

In three pages the ways in which literature reflects the development of an American identity are examined in the works of such aut...

Good and Evil Characterizations

work? If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the de...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

The Farm As A Natural Habitat

point out that the little bit of nature that is left is being consistently squeezed out and pesticides spread beyond the crops the...

Thoreau vs. Huxley

to mean that it is weak or ineffective. Thoreaus observations of his own inner life, the life of the pond, and the life of all of ...

Comparing Themes from McGregor And Thoreau

from what was ostensibly a civilized society, ultimately finding how solitude became one of his closest friends. "I find it whole...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

A Quarter-Century Friendship: Thoreau and Emerson

friends for over 25 years. The nature of their friendship, like any such relationship, cannot really be understood by anyone on th...

The Disparity of Work and Productivity

equated with worth. Work is the standard by which the content of ones character is judged. There is a pervasive conception that in...

The Legitimacy of Protest in Thoreau

action, one must carefully consider the possible alternative of a lawful, democratic form of protest, the overall value and useful...

Shakespeare, Thoreau, and Coetzee and Reality vs. Appearance

In five pages the social distortion of reality that encourages perceptions based on appearance is considered within the context of...

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...

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...

Baudrillard, Plato, Sartre and Thoreau

prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette p...

Thoreau on Loss

in which he discusses the great literary works of the past. He says that literature in the Middle Ages was written in Latin and Gr...

Slavery According to Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Jacobs -- born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina -- ...

Analysis of Symbolism in The Sound of a Voice by David Henry Hwang and Animal Farm by George Orwell

Although the animals have taken the stance that "Four legs good, two legs bad" and managed to defend the farm against an attempt b...

Civil Rights, Slavery Versus "Free" Citizens

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

Frances Anne Kemble's "Journal Of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation" - What Influence Does The Institution Of Slavery Have On The Slaves?

smallest nuance of kindness or understanding Kemble (1984) displayed was embellished into a lifesaving gesture speaks to the extra...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

most important and fascinating of them were fashioned by black and white revolutionists who saw race as the great American dilemma...

Raboteau & Elkins/2 Views of Slavery

performing these rites for the multitude of abducted Africans who died in transit to the Americas. In the second chapter, Rabote...

Retroactive Child Support Payments: Canadian Supreme Court

they separated, the father had custody for a time, but "the parties subsequently entered into an informal shared custody arrangeme...

The Year 2050 and The Greenhouse Effect

moment, the indications are far more likely for a bleak future. Ironically, it was roughly one year before the Antarctic ice shel...

Workplace Politics and Power

was little he could have done to avert the situation, short of signing his name to the report knowing that the equipment was fault...

Friendship, Victor Frankenstein, and Henry Clerval

book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...

Mideast State Classifications

Iraq alone stands as an example of the concept. Reminiscent of the manner in which Fidel Castro claimed control of Cuba so ...

The Arabs, Israelis, And Kissinger A Secret History Of American Diplomacy In The Middle East by Edward R.F. Sheehan

Plan after World War II" (Neff 74). Sheehan clearly indicates that the West was able to revel in the success of Sinai I as an exe...