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

on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...

In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...

rejection of the American dream likely came before he had embarked on this personal journey. He had some insight into the problem ...

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the element of satire that exists within Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There is ...

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

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

In fourteen pages this paper contrasts and compares modern policies and approaches to land management with the concepts and views ...

Using these two authors as our information base, we might say that one, in light of our life today, chose an unrealistic goal. The...

well have acknowledged that mankind stands alone in his endless quest for more, a concept behind the reason society is its own opp...

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

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

theirs. Thoreau wanted to follow natures example, to "see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, ...

He describes, for instance, the different kinds of activities which he undertakes in the course...

be? soliloquy that we are allowed an insight into the extent of his grief and suicidal tendencies, and in O, what a rogue and peas...

a serious subject for examination. Unjust Laws Exist Thoreau had chosen to life that was in some respects that of a recluse an...

just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...

that regards Walden as the "story of a person who traded a flawed reality for an idealistic, isolated sanctuary" (845). A close re...

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

silence and contemplation and it was just this sort of thing that Thoreau was seeking and thus details are an intricate part of hi...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...

understand that Thoreau would believe that poets contribute a great deal. Hence, it is understandable why he makes such claims. Fi...

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

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

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...