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In eight pages this paper discusses the life and activism of this influential advocate of civil disobedience and questions his com...
In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...
In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...
In ten pages postmodernism is considered in terms of globalization and how it has affected civil disobedience practices. Eight so...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...
courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....
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...
that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...
American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...
kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...
for their own activities. Mankind all too often, in fact, views wilderness is something to be constrained and tamed. This is tru...
In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...
pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...
provides a more peaceful perspective and make environmental civil disobedience known. Civil disobedience in many ways highlights t...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...
or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...
the issue was a simple translation mistake, but this does open the door for there to be an appeal by the defendant and the German ...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...
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human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...
a advertisement using a social networking site, so that the advertisement appears on the internet. However, we do not need to look...
In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...
In six pages this paper examines how Thoreau criticized modern technology in these literary works. One source is cited in the bib...