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that, with self-reliance. Within the context of this piece, Emerson makes a profound realization. There is no past or futu...

the individual. For one to realize his best self he had to first discover himself and to learn to trust himself. He believed in ...

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

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

"behold the beauty of another character....with...vivacity....behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures i...

rights. This qualitative study of the issues applies the concept of government and neoinstitutionalism to one application ...

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

assumption that Emerson makes in this essay, using it as a foundation for all of his other examinations and deviations from topic ...

printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...

needed to really listen in order to find it and thus live by it. Edwards was a man of God, and a man who altered the way in whi...

are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...

transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

A five page fictitious conversation among these three authors is developed and considers the similarities and differences of such ...

one, as the poet says, is described as feminine, much as the Earth is always feminized. The poet would like to embrace her, but ca...

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...

the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

center of the work is that which relates to length and depth. This is the longest poem in the work and it is a poem that deeply an...

concept of viewing Nature as if for the first time, as a child does, is also emphasized, because Emerson believes that the end of ...

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

the authors speak of the present era what is most striking is the marked division between white and black perspectives. To the w...

significance and certain rights that are either of divine origin or inherent in human nature" (1998). Each individual then thinks,...

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...