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Writing of Mary Moody Emerson

In five pages this research paper examines how Ralph Waldo Emerson's aunt Mary Moody Emerson and her writings influenced him. Six...

Third Party Candidacies of Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan and Effects upon the Presidential Election of 2000 in Pennsylvania

In eight pages the presidential election of 2000 is examined in terms of the impact the candidacies of Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nade...

A Fictional Conversation With Author Tom Peters

This paper provides a conversation between a professor Ralph Stacey and author Tom Peters. The author pays particular attention t...

Social Rebellion Success or Failure According to Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In eight pages this paper discusses how social rebels either fail or succeed in a comparative analysis of Narrative of the Life of...

Emerson and the Romantic Hero

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

Living Simply: Emerson and Thoreau

complexities that can be lived without. This sort of perspective is further seen in a statement in his work wherein he sta...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

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

Emerson: The Divinity School Address

quality in themselves. Then he drops his bombshell. He says that a mans character "is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms nev...

Transformation of Genius into Practical Power: Emerson

idea genius and write on it. It is but one idea, one small part of their lives, and thus demonstrates that genius is so limited in...

History as Biography: Emerson

what makes history. He states, in the beginning, "Of the works of this mind history is the record...Man is explicable by nothing l...

Contradiction and Inconsistency: Emerson

perhaps always live in a new day, unafraid of changing their ideals, their perceptions of those ideals, and thus perhaps appearing...

Being Independent or Being Part of the Community

are part of the community, even if not actively so. It comes down to the old adage of "it takes all kinds" for communities are mad...

Oscar and Lucinda and Biography of Filmmaker Gillian Armstrong

Great Britain. Nevertheless, Armstrong patiently honed her craft by taking any directing gig she could from music videos to docum...

COMPARISON OF EMERSON’S AND FRANK’S IDEAS

bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." Furthermore, he writes "Trust thyself . . . accept the place the d...

Emerson's Concept of Self in "Self-Reliance"

of the individual to that of equal to great philosophers, religious leaders and poets. His argument is that within the "self," tha...

The Green Party and the Influence of Ralph Nader

10). Although 20 may not seem like a very large number, it is important to remember that U.S. politics largely rests with two part...

Shortcomings of a Cookie Cutter Education

get to the end at the same time as others of their age is a prospect that is near sighted to say the least. One questionable pro...

Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Influence of Transcendentalism

minister, it was necessary to leave the church" (Chapter Three: The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets). His philosop...

Fashion, Cultural Theft, and Ethnic Influences

was the case in Darwin when an Aboriginal tribe brought a case against a textile manufacturer for the use of scared symbols on the...

Five American Thinkers and How They Employed the Declaration of Independence into Their Writings

thinkers in American history, including Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luth...

Problem Solving and SSM

of the problem situation * analysis of the ingredients (using a rich picture method) * coming to a root definition of significan...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's and Walt Whitman's Transcendentalism

disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Three sources are cited...

Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

Transcendentalism in 19th Century America

Transcendentalism was a means by which individuals could concentrate on the divinity of man and of nature. The movement was not o...

TV Commercial Explication

few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...

Prediction of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mexico As an American 'Poison'

U.S. His use of the metaphor "poison" reflects the intensity of his feelings on this subject. To Emerson Mexicos political sover...

An Attractiveness Article Analysis

studies have shown that individuals with abnormal appearance received more help. The research team points out that physical attr...

Robber Baron John D. Rockefeller

hand, does not accept the fact that Rockefeller was a benevolent, conscionable businessman. At a time when business was literally...