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

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

In a paper consisting of five pages the similarities between modern Peru and 1960s America are noted in a consideration of how Kin...

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

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

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

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

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

In five pages this paper examines how King's six nonviolence steps are represented in this anonymously written Medieval epic. Two...

a serious subject for examination. Unjust Laws Exist Thoreau had chosen to life that was in some respects that of a recluse an...

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

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

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

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, ...

He describes, for instance, the different kinds of activities which he undertakes in the course...

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...

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

that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...

understand that Thoreau would believe that poets contribute a great deal. Hence, it is understandable why he makes such claims. Fi...

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

its grips on the world? How do black American civil rights leaders feel about that form of violence? How do they feel about the ...

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

silence and contemplation and it was just this sort of thing that Thoreau was seeking and thus details are an intricate part of hi...

that regards Walden as the "story of a person who traded a flawed reality for an idealistic, isolated sanctuary" (845). A close re...

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

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

man of vision. Hes intelligent, principled, ethical, and because he is black and was raised by a single mother, he knows what its ...

prayers. This is very different in Islam. As most of us should know by now, Muslims pray five times each day, each time facing Me...

his right to be in the Birmingham community and take part in the struggle of the African American community in that city. This int...

This paper reviews the philosophies of Dr. Martin Luther King and comments on how they are reflected in this monumental speech. T...