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Essays 61 - 90
individuals freedom and dignity. He espoused the self as the most important entity. In transcendentalism, the person aspi...
In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...
In six pages Emerson's influence in terms of one's self authority is considered as it is reflected in the protagonist of Edna Pont...
In eight pages this paper discusses Emerson's poetry not for its original thinking but for the philosophical crossroads his works ...
simply that Moses, Plato and Milton had the self-confidence to express themselves, which ordinary people do not. Ordinary people,...
In six pages this paper considers Ralph Emerson's influence in terms of style of writing and his transcendentalist concept of happ...
In five pages each sentence of a paragraph featured in Emerson's 1841 essay is analyzed. One source is cited in the bibliography....
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...
off. This individual is constantly working to get more, perhaps a third vacation house in Caribbean. This is not really life, but ...
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...
In five pages this paper examines the ideological differences between Jefferson's and Thoreau's views regarding the citizen and th...
comparing Hardings book, Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography with Finks work, it becomes clear as to how Finks scholarship provides...
In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...
In five pages Thoreau's Walden Pond is examined in a consideration of the author's portrayal of nature. Two sources are cited in ...
In five pages this paper discuses how reading is considered in Thoreau's Walden and in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...
In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...
In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's perspectives on civil disobedience as represented in his essay of the same name. Thr...
as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...
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 three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...
pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...
and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...
(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...
of submitting to such solitude seems to be particularly poignant in todays society, where we all live such hectic, fast-paced live...
or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...
challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...
2002, p. 125). As this suggests, philosophically, Thoreau carried little for the present and his aspiration was for his writing ...
ones fellow-man in the broadest sense" (Thoreau 55). Philanthropists, he insists, have never sincerely proposed to do him, or peop...
government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...
The first step in improving ones life is to imagine the "highest moral ideals," then change to "move closer to them" ("Chapter 4")...