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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...

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...

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 ...

Reading According to Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper discuses how reading is considered in Thoreau's Walden and in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...

Comparative Analysis of Biographies on Henry David Thoreau

comparing Hardings book, Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography with Finks work, it becomes clear as to how Finks scholarship provides...

Ideological Differences Between Thomas Jefferson and Henry David Thoreau

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

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...

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 ...

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 on Philanthropy

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

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...

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...

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")...

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 ...

Perspectives on Human Nature

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...

Emily Dickinson & Nature

"failed," not why she died (line 5). The conversation between these two deceased who died for their art continues "Until the Moss ...

Roles of Animals in Nature & Human Lives

at close quarters unmolested, as the wolves did not consider him to be a threat and, obviously, they did not consider him as suita...

Wordsworth/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

Scarlet Letter/Sin of A Guilty Heart

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

Life and Man Viewed Across the Cultural Divide

Aristotle, Native Indian and Hindu philosophers had varying philosophies of life and the nature of man. This essay compares Aristo...

Tripitaka in Wu Cheng'en's 'Monkey'

In an analytic essay consisting of five pages the Tripitaka character in Monkey is examined in terms of his representation of man ...

Nature vs. Nurture

There are many theories about intelligence and there are some debates about it. Gardner proposed multiple intelligences while Ster...

Different Perspectives on Church

This essay reports different perspectives regarding the nature of the church. The major divisions are the nature of the church as ...

Justification for Law Breaking in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

Work, Is It Essential for Human Flourishing?

is it essential for human flourishing? The online edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary [http://www.merriam-webster.com] defin...

'Where I Lived & What I Lived For' by Henry David Thoreau

that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...

Literary Social Criticism

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

Analysis of the Second Chapter of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

that regards Walden as the "story of a person who traded a flawed reality for an idealistic, isolated sanctuary" (845). A close re...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

Twenty First Century Transcendentalism

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...