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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 America Still America the Beautiful

This paper considers the words to the patriotic song America the Beautiful then compares Katherine Bates ideas enunciated in the s...

Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King on Peace

In five pages this paper examines the similarities and differences in the peace teachings and writings of Thoreau, Gandhi, and Kin...

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...

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...

King and Thoreau

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

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...

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...

U.S. Society and 'the Creative Outsider'

In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...

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...

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 ...

Self Reliance and the Philosophies of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages this paper discusses how the self reliance philosophy was conceptualized in a contrast and comparison of the perspect...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Citizenship Responsibilities

between the citizen and the government? Throughout the ages many great men have spouted views on politics regarding the role of ...

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....

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Their Geniu

In five pages this report examines 'Self Reliance' by Emerson and Walden by Thoreau within the context of the genius perspective. ...

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 ...

Democracy's Bane, Capitalism

as a perfectly legal act, but because the State was made up of "neighobours," who in private conversations with him said they supp...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

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

Living Simply: Emerson and Thoreau

complexities that can be lived without. This sort of perspective is further seen in a statement in his work wherein he sta...