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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...

Analyzing 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luther King Jr.

the courts 1954 decision makes it incumbent upon him and others to point out the failure of the government to act on its own behal...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the element of satire that exists within Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There is ...

Is the U.S. Government Working for the Individual or the Community?

This 5 page paper discusses whether the U.S. government works for the community as a whole, or for indivdiual interests. The write...

Voluntary Simplicity Doctrine of Henry David Thoreau Expressed in Walden

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

Materialism and Walden by Henry David Thoreau

rejection of the American dream likely came before he had embarked on this personal journey. He had some insight into the problem ...

Self Reliance and the Philosophies of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages this paper discusses how the self reliance philosophy was conceptualized in a contrast and comparison of the perspect...

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Transcendentalism

on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...

Justice According to King and Thoreau

In six pages this paper examines the government intervention positions represented by Thoreau and King. Four sources are cited in...

Contemporary Developments of Walden Pond and What Would Henry David Thoreau Think

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

Industrialization Problems and Coping Strategies

In seven pages this paper considers how theorists of the nineteenth century proposed to cope with industrialization problems and i...

Society and the Individual

In nine pages this paper discusses society and the individual in a consideration of theories by Hegel, Veblen, Thoreau, Kant, Talc...

Satirical Elements in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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

Citizenship Responsibilities

between the citizen and the government? Throughout the ages many great men have spouted views on politics regarding the role of ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Their Geniu

In five pages this report examines 'Self Reliance' by Emerson and Walden by Thoreau within the context of the genius perspective. ...

Transcendentalist Ideas of Henry David Thoreau

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

Concepts of Nature and Wilderness

In fourteen pages this paper contrasts and compares modern policies and approaches to land management with the concepts and views ...

Analysis of 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this essay analyzes King's audience and purpose and the relationship that exists among analogy, testimony, authority...

Democracy Benefits and Risks

well have acknowledged that mankind stands alone in his endless quest for more, a concept behind the reason society is its own opp...

American Identity Development

In three pages the ways in which literature reflects the development of an American identity are examined in the works of such aut...

Government, Citizens, and Law Disobedience

In five pages disobeying laws by govenrment officials and citizens is examined in terms of justification and if there are any diff...

Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King on Peace

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

Good and Evil Characterizations

work? If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the de...

Economic and Political Freedom Views

In seven pages this paper examines political and economic freedom in a consideration of the perspectives of Benjamin Franklin, Ale...

Benjamin Franklin on the Relationship Between Society and Self

In eleven pages this paper considers Benjamin Franklin's perspectives on society and self in comparison with the views of Thomas H...

Perfection Seeking in Literature

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

Social Inequities According to Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Eugene O'Neill

just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...

Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Overview of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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, ...

Solitude Perspectives of May Sarton and Henry David Thoreau

be? soliloquy that we are allowed an insight into the extent of his grief and suicidal tendencies, and in O, what a rogue and peas...