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Justification for Law Breaking in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

Thoreau’s Description of Jail in Civil Disobedience

new found perception to inform his discussion of why he was in jail in the first place. Thoreau objected to the fact that slavery ...

Modern Technology Critiques by Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience and Walden

In six pages this paper examines how Thoreau criticized modern technology in these literary works. One source is cited in the bib...

Civil Disobedience as Viewed by Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's perspectives on civil disobedience as represented in his essay of the same name. Thr...

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...

Utopian Society and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

Civil Disobedience, Martin Luther King, and Henry David Thoreau

gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...

Civil Disobedience from the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

it is immoral to allow oneself to be associated with a gross injustice. In his essay, Thoreau refers particularly to the Mexican W...

The Occupy Wall Street Protests - Would Thoreau Approve

Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...

Thoreau and King

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

Inner Self According to Henry David Thoreau

In five pages this paper discusses how Henry David Thoreau's views on the inner self manifest themselves in the 'Minott, the Poeti...

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...

Ideological Comparison of Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Douglass

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave, 2001 and See Also Thoreau, 1993). This comparative essay examines ...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Virtuous Act of Disobedience

In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...

The Continued Need for Civil Disobedience

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

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...

Civil Disobedience and Abortion

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

How Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Define 'Self Reliance'

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

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 ...

Just Law, Unjust Law, and the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

In six pages this paper examines how just law and unjust law are conceptualized in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' by Martin Luthe...

Law That is Just and Unjust in the Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau II

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...

Literary Social Criticism

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

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

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

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 ...

Railroads in Henry David Thoreau's Walden

In five pages this paper discusses Thoreau's views on railroads through an analysis of Walden passages....

Civil Rights and Political Action

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King Jr.

being. If it was all the same to them, he must have said, Ill stay where I am. His famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" were pub...