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

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...

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

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

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

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

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...

In 5 pages this paper examines the reactions to public school prayer by this trio of social philosophers and what advice each woul...

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

avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...

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

each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...

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 paper examines the similarities and differences in the peace teachings and writings of Thoreau, Gandhi, and Kin...

In six pages this paper examines how Thoreau criticized modern technology in these literary works. One source is cited in the bib...

In three pages this paper discusses how Thoreau described how possessions own individuals instead of the other way around in Walde...

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 ...

time without injuring eternity" (Thoreau Chapter 1A Page 10). That is a witticism in itself. Thoreau (1994) said, "The mass ...

In five pages this paper examines the ideological differences between Jefferson's and Thoreau's views regarding the citizen and th...

spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...

first able to ascertain the beauty of something so elusive and grand. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ...

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

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

define what is not essential in our lives we can more accurately see what is important. For example, if we can get to a place wher...

a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....