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Essays 61 - 90
In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
provides a more peaceful perspective and make environmental civil disobedience known. Civil disobedience in many ways highlights t...
kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...
public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...
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...
In ten pages postmodernism is considered in terms of globalization and how it has affected civil disobedience practices. Eight so...
In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...
In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...
In eight pages this paper discusses the life and activism of this influential advocate of civil disobedience and questions his com...
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...
In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's perspectives on civil disobedience as represented in his essay of the same name. Thr...
his objective was not to inflict harm but rather to remove the catalyst for drug activity. Is that not what resides at the founda...
Gandhi is discussed from a social work perspective. Various aspects of his achievements are explored. The micro, macro and mezzo l...
In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...
In five pages this paper examines the justifiability of civil disobedience in a consideration of several philosophers and theori...
In five pages this paper examines King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' in a consideration of the effectiveness of nonviolence an...
In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...
In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...
human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...
garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...
or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at illegal workers. A case is made for civil disobedience as an ethical response. Pape...
Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...
American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...