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In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...
Gandhi is discussed from a social work perspective. Various aspects of his achievements are explored. The micro, macro and mezzo l...
gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...
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...
In five pages this paper examines King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' in a consideration of the effectiveness of nonviolence an...
In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's perspectives on civil disobedience as represented in his essay of the same name. Thr...
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...
In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...
human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...
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...
In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation of individualism - which is to maintain an independence fr...
he learns that his sons will fight and one will die. Thus, the reciting of the story is a punishment for Adam, a demonstration of ...
or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...
Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...
emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...
"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)....
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at illegal workers. A case is made for civil disobedience as an ethical response. Pape...
to immediately become accustomed to the American way of life; the National Origins Act of 1924 served as the culmination of such u...
tax. Patriot II is slated to replace the Patriot Act, but it is not yet fully refined and defined in its scope (Drake, 2003). Li...