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Essays 61 - 90
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...
This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...
a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...
States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...
to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...
In six pages this paper discusses how the self reliance philosophy was conceptualized in a contrast and comparison of the perspect...
In five pages Thoreau's Walden Pond is examined in a consideration of the author's portrayal of nature. Two sources are cited in ...
In five pages this paper discuses how reading is considered in Thoreau's Walden and in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...
In five pages this paper examines the ideological differences between Jefferson's and Thoreau's views regarding the citizen and th...
In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's perspectives on civil disobedience as represented in his essay of the same name. Thr...
In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...
In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...
as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...
In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...
comparing Hardings book, Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography with Finks work, it becomes clear as to how Finks scholarship provides...
In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...
(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...
or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...
2002, p. 125). As this suggests, philosophically, Thoreau carried little for the present and his aspiration was for his writing ...
a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....
of submitting to such solitude seems to be particularly poignant in todays society, where we all live such hectic, fast-paced live...
ones fellow-man in the broadest sense" (Thoreau 55). Philanthropists, he insists, have never sincerely proposed to do him, or peop...
to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...
government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...
The first step in improving ones life is to imagine the "highest moral ideals," then change to "move closer to them" ("Chapter 4")...
injustice. Thoreau argues that the only obligation he has "is to do at any time what I think right." He expands on this thought, w...
off. This individual is constantly working to get more, perhaps a third vacation house in Caribbean. This is not really life, but ...
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...