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Swift and Thoreau, Writing Style

a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...

Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca

her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...

Educational Psychology

(Darling, 2007). The authoritative parent is demanding but also responsive; this parent is assertive but not restrictive (Darling,...

Virtually Reality Genre; Star Trek's Next-Generation Episode Ship In A Bottle As A Forerunner Of Virtual Reality In The Matrix And The Thirteenth Floor

as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...

A Response to Thoreau: “Conscious Endeavor”

The first step in improving ones life is to imagine the "highest moral ideals," then change to "move closer to them" ("Chapter 4")...

Martin Luther King and the Right to Resistance as Expressed by Thoreau

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...

"Wild Bill" Hickok as Analyzed by Erik Erikson's Last Two Psychosocial Stages

The portrayal of "Wild Bill" Hickok in the Deadwood HBO series as it reflects the Generativity vs. Stagnation and Ego Integrity vs...

Thoreau’s Walden Pond

off. This individual is constantly working to get more, perhaps a third vacation house in Caribbean. This is not really life, but ...

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 ...

Social Structure and Subsistence Pattern

not necessarily go hand in hand with the rise of agriculture either in Egypt or in other areas of the world....

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

Thoreau on Philanthropy

ones fellow-man in the broadest sense" (Thoreau 55). Philanthropists, he insists, have never sincerely proposed to do him, or peop...

Henry David Thoreau and the War in Iraq

to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...

Thoreau and King

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

Walden and Civil Disobedience Examined Critically

of submitting to such solitude seems to be particularly poignant in todays society, where we all live such hectic, fast-paced live...

Slavery According to Henry David Thoreau

2002, p. 125). As this suggests, philosophically, Thoreau carried little for the present and his aspiration was for his writing ...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

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

Philosophical Comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

Thoreau and Bryant's Impacts Upon the Writings of Oliver, Stevens, and Frost

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...

Internal Reflection and External Expression in the Works of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau

In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...

Interpreting the Constitution

Interpreting the U.S. Constitution is something that many jurists spend their lives trying to accomplish. This paper examines how ...

Consideration of the Quote 'No Man is an Island'

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...

Civil Disobedience from the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Conflict Between Freedom and Order

In seven pages this paper discusses what needs to be considered when examining the conflict of freedom vs. order in this historica...

Civil Disobedience as Viewed by Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's perspectives on civil disobedience as represented in his essay of the same name. Thr...

Nature Concept

and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...

Ideological Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Douglass

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Nature and Henry David Thoreau

In five pages Thoreau's Walden Pond is examined in a consideration of the author's portrayal of nature. Two sources are cited in ...