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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 ...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

Walden and Civil Disobedience Examined Critically

of submitting to such solitude seems to be particularly poignant in todays society, where we all live such hectic, fast-paced live...

Consideration of the Quote 'No Man is an Island'

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...

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

diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...

Thoreau, Walden

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...

Leader's Political Role in King Henry V by William Shakespeare

In his political discourse, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli believed that political prowess that leads inherently to victory is ine...

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...

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...

Citizenship Responsibilities

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

U.S. Society and 'the Creative Outsider'

In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...

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...

Civil Disobedience and Abortion

"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...

King and Thoreau

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

Four Commencement Speakers from American History

Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...

Democracy's Bane, Capitalism

as a perfectly legal act, but because the State was made up of "neighobours," who in private conversations with him said they supp...

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...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

'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...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

Literary Social Criticism

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

Is America Still America the Beautiful

This paper considers the words to the patriotic song America the Beautiful then compares Katherine Bates ideas enunciated in the s...

Swift and Thoreau, Writing Style

a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five ways the protagonist Frederic Henry's transformation from boy to man through his wartime experience and romance with Cathe...

Renaissance Culture: Donatello, Michelangelo and Shakesepare

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...