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Attendance Policies for High Schools

In seven pages this paper concentrates on high school students who are considered at risk and various issues and problems involvin...

Learning Comprehension

in that they know what the purpose of learning how to read is. Children do not necessarily equate a pleasant purpose. There are m...

Comparative Analysis of the Pragmatic Philosophy of William James and the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson

they do not understand. Rather, Kant persisted to probe related concepts, an endeavor that would prove extraordinary in the philos...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Work, and 'Self Reliance'

of the things which were already history and beyond ones control. This ability was made possible only through true power. ...

'Self Reliance' Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nonconformity

or the ability to chart their own individual course. Although by all intents and purposes, Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to live a...

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

the natural world. Nature, he asserts, is secretive, but at the same time it is human beings who will eventually be able to unlock...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

at Concord Academy (1828-33), and at Harvard University, graduating in 1837" (Anonymous Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862) thoreau....

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. ...

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages Emerson's 'The Poet' essay is used to evaluate the writings of Walt Whitman. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

The Poet Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson

means nothing when they are unable to see beyond what is before them to the heart of the art and the beauty of its simple being. T...

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Paine Compared

he was unhappy with the idea of being a businessman. Paine, with the soul of a revolutionary, left his small English village and e...

Summary and Analysis of 'Nature' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

denominator in all of his writings; however, this keen awareness was truly evident within the literary boundaries of Nature. In a...

Alexis de Tocqueville According to Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper speculates on how Tocqueville's Democracy in America may have been reacted to by Emerson. Two sources ar...

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson and its Problems

his own creative energy to produce a great career for himself, but he in many ways conformed. He conformed to the needs of society...

Ralph Waldo Emerson' 'Self Reliance'

In five pages the famous essay written by Emerson is examined in a discussion of how he equated being American with extreme indivi...

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

A Review of Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A 5 page essay analyzing the sociopolitical context of this work. Tone, imagery, form, and symbolism are detailed. 3 sources....

Paraphrasing the 'Self Reliance' of Ralph Waldo Emerson

divinity that each of us possesses. The young are the best in expressing the proper faith in their own abilities because their min...

'Self Reliance' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this essay is analyzed within the context of the Persius quote used by Emerson, 'Do not search outside yourself.' T...

Happiness and the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages this paper considers Ralph Emerson's influence in terms of style of writing and his transcendentalist concept of happ...

Paragraph Analysis of 'Experience' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages each sentence of a paragraph featured in Emerson's 1841 essay is analyzed. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Explication of Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

simply that Moses, Plato and Milton had the self-confidence to express themselves, which ordinary people do not. Ordinary people,...

The American Scholar and Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper examines these writings by Emerson in terms of how they reflect his beliefs that the future should be foc...

America of the Past and Future in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages the American legacies of Emerson and Hawthorne are considered in a contrast of their lives and writings. Four sourc...

Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...

Romanticism in the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In eight pages this paper discusses Emerson's poetry not for its original thinking but for the philosophical crossroads his works ...

The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the other perspective all people are poets through their jobs, their use of symbols, their subconscious adherence to anything...

Social Reform According to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Other Writers

reform, but a constant, measured effort. Despite Emersons optimism, there is a lot of truth to the idea that Americans now accept...

Using Drugs and Juvenile Delinquency

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

'Nature' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

my eyes,) which nature cannot repair" (Emerson). In this he clearly envisions nature as an entity that can fix all mans problems,...