Essays Tagged: "Thoreau"

Frank Lloyd Wright. Architect.

. Wright's family spentmany evenings listening to William Lincoln Wright read the works of Emerson, Thoreau,and Blake outloud. Also his aunts Nell and Jane opened a school of their own pressingthe phi ...

(5 pages) 180 0 3.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering

Theodore Roethke: This is about the basic life story and the meaning behind this dramatically influential American poet's works. It's AP English vocabulary, change as needed.

of intense personal tensions and the horrors of living in peccadillo.Famous poets such as Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and Yeats were just a few of the many poets and writers that young Theodore took a ... of intense personal tensions and the horrors of living in peccadillo.Famous poets such as Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and Yeats were just a few of the many poets and writers that young Theodore took a ...

(7 pages) 86 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

What is Philosophy? according to Plato, Pieper, and Thoreau.

eing as compared to the process of becoming and distinctly separate concepts for Plato, Pieper, and Thoreau and are directly related to that capacity of understanding.For Plato (384-322 BC), the physi ... t to understand human existence for millennia. The 19th century philosopher and writing Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) In Walden, his account of an extended stay in the woods, he wrote that he wanted t ...

(5 pages) 368 1 4.8 Aug/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Transcendentalism

1800's, people trusted in their innersoul. it was called transcendentalism. People like Emerson and Thoreau were transcendentalism. They didn't think with their heads. They do things like in their fir ... n when I feel it is finished, I look and it can be a yellow sky and a violet ocean. I love it! What Thoreau did, of isolating himself, I couldn't do it because it is not my character. Sure I could liv ...

(2 pages) 99 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Paranormality & Spirituality

Walden by Thoreau, a Satirical criticism

Walden as a satirical criticism of modern life and living. Another way of saying this would be that Thoreau writes in a way that he is criticizing the way modern people are living. In fact, he believe ... t way, which would ideally be a more nature-oriented and simplistic form of living. In other words, Thoreau thinks the best way to live is to abandon all materialistic things and live in nature. His r ...

(3 pages) 105 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Thoreau's views on life in Walden

Thoreau believed human life mimicked that of nature. Thoreau used the simile of how a day is like a ... orning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer" (200). Therefore, following Thoreau's theory, if nature is 'reborn' every spring and never actually dies, then life should be et ... y, if nature is 'reborn' every spring and never actually dies, then life should be eternal as well. Thoreau describes spring at the pond as rejuvenation from the 'death' of winter:"At length the sun's ...

(1 pages) 100 1 3.5 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Walden- how we spend our lives

Living Life"Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives." Thoreau writes in Walden. He spent his creative life challenging the ordinary thinking of his day, a ... ed his readers live life full, with less concern for spending money than concern for spending life. Thoreau also notes that is "not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar, ... in his conclusion, replacing the circuitous thoughts of his first chapter, we sense the urgency of Thoreau's final message. This work is meant to mobilize us to start working us to live our lives dif ...

(4 pages) 103 0 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

A letter to Henry David Thoreau

Dear Mr. ThoreauI know that you cannot read this, seeing as you passed away many years ago. However, I would ...

(2 pages) 37 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Good Life.

ife. In modern times, for example, there has developed a tradition associated with thinkers such as Thoreau and Tolstoy according to which the life of the inner person is more significant than the out ... s more significant than the outward form of the state. Aristotle would no doubt have disapproved of Thoreau for seeking to "opt out" of society and the state, but his example raises the question of wh ...

(5 pages) 115 0 4.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Analysis of whether or not Transcendentalism is relevant to modern-day society.

rs have lost their relevance due to the changes of social and economic conditions since the time of Thoreau. The Transcendentalists' goal was to create a Utopia in America. They believed in a society ... pecially beautiful loincloth. In the 1800s, an automobile was a possession of great material value. Thoreau had a small house, 3 chairs, a desk, 2 suits, and a few books. He was able to sustain himsel ...

(2 pages) 58 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The Beliefs of Transceldentalism in Dead Poets Society

uition and the individual conscience. Transcendentalism gained support from writers such as Emerson Thoreau. These supporters believed that fundamental truths are known to the heart and therefore cann ...

(3 pages) 24 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Narrative Of Fredrick Douglass

ition and the individual conscience. Transcendentalism gained support from writers such as Emerson Thoreau. These supporters believed that fundamental truths are known to the heart and therefore cann ...

(3 pages) 38 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Creative Autobiography: A First Person Account Of Henry David Thoreau

nd to embrace nature for what it is.My life began on July 12th, 1817 to my parents John and Cynthia Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts (Gradesaver 1). I was of the French-Huguenot and Scottish ancestry ... 2). I built a shabby house from old boards and bricks with a budget of about twenty-eight dollars (Thoreau 223). For two years and two months I stayed at Walden being as self-sufficient as I could be ...

(4 pages) 50 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Rebelling for the Hell of it In order for a rebellion to take place, is there a need for a cause? Or can a rebellion take place without a cause?

that you need a cause to rebel; however, there are some who believe you can rebel even without one.Thoreau believes that men have the "right to refuse allegiance to and to resist the government" (On ... it becomes so unendurable that too much "friction" builds up and leads to oppression. According to Thoreau, immoral actions taken by the government is a legitimate cause for rebellion. Nevertheless, ...

(4 pages) 24 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Answer to Martin Luther King questions

g was inspired to love his enemy as he would his neighbor. Gandhi in turn derived his thoughts from Thoreau's essay "On civil disobedience." Gandhi's beliefs helped king to harness his anger and chann ...

(2 pages) 39 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

1) Economy- put the sory in first person point of view- Thoreau bought cottage from James Collins- took boards from cottage and built a house on Walden Pond ... round, you can still be alone in your mind- everyone is different, was not lonely, observed nature- Thoreau doesn't want to live near people but near "the perennial source of our life" (God, nature)4) ... ighbors- don't fight with your neighbors- ants fighting like humans- looms playing on the pond with Thoreau- animals enjoy playing, fighting, having victory- animals are a lot like humans6) Conclusion ...

(1 pages) 65 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Walden and Henry David Thoreau All about Throeau's 2 years 2 months and 2 days at Walden Pond...

on't read often judge a book by its cover. "It is not all books that are as dull as their readers." Thoreau said this quote because people often judge books without knowing about the book, in this cas ... n this case, the book would not be dull but the person saying it is will be.In the chapter Reading, Thoreau said, "To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and ...

(3 pages) 64 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Concerning the Invasion in Iraq: Comparison to Thoreau's Political Beliefs

My own actions during the invasion of Iraq certainly do not fit Thoreau's conception of patriotism. Patriotism is not an act against the established government, it ... re than the soil it exists upon, loves more than the nation it once was, or the nation it could be. Thoreau's opinion concerning government and patria discount him as no more than a political idealist ...

(2 pages) 26 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Structural Functionalism

sumption. Some see no point to the endless cycle of being "...plowed into the soil for compost", as Thoreau would say, so another generation can be born and go through the same endless life style of g ...

(2 pages) 126 1 1.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Death of the Moth vs. The Battle of The Ants

es different methods of personification of insects to describe the same thing - human nature. While Thoreau vividly depicts a large-scale battle between two ant species in his yard, Virginia Woolf giv ... lay different perspectives on and ideas about human nature. What this difference amounts to is that Thoreau's description of the ants is on a large scale, as a whole, while Woolf's experience is a ver ...

(3 pages) 73 0 3.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American