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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

waiting for the "perp" to arrive on the scene. Community policing, a form of urban law enforcement, is a restructuring plan that ...

In six pages this paper celebrates the life and literary works of James Baldwin in a consideration of his writings' enduring impac...

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

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...

This paper discusses methods for teaching writing. It argues that writing is not a gift but a skill that can be learned, and that ...

In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...

In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...

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 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 examines the ideological differences between Jefferson's and Thoreau's views regarding the citizen and th...

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

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

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 ...

In eight pages this paper examines American history with an emphasis upon the significant role of immigrants, struggles of the Nat...

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, ...

For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

dunk below the surface. There is no surprise on her face. There is no horror on her face. What is happening? The...