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had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
In eight pages this research paper is an extended version of another paper khmlk&g.wps and focuses upon Gandhi's influence in ...
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...
(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...
pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...
government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...
Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...
a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...
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 examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...
In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...
emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...
In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's views on railroads through an analysis of Walden passages....
In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...
the natural world. Nature, he asserts, is secretive, but at the same time it is human beings who will eventually be able to unlock...
requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...
a serious subject for examination. Unjust Laws Exist Thoreau had chosen to life that was in some respects that of a recluse an...
imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...
of the soil" (Thoreau 326). In one of most famous lines in his text, Thoreau writes that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desp...
personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...
other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...
are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...
perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...
courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....