Henry David Thoreau Essay

Angelo Jethro C. Del Rosario PI 100 (MTh 8:30-10:00) Point One: Rizal Condemned The Uprising. “He condemned the Revolution because as an ilustrado he instinctively underestimated the power and the talents of the people. He believed in freedom not so much as a national right but as something to be deserved, like a medal for good behavior. Moreover, he did not equate liberty with independence. Since his idea of liberty was essentially the demand for those rights which the elite needed in order…

As mentioned earlier Dr King believed that non-violence and civil disobedience are the only ways to fight for freedom. During my research on Dr. Martin Luther King and his attributes towards non-violence, I found his book “Stride toward freedom”. In this book Dr. King outlined his way of nonviolence. He tells the story of the Montgomery movement and his own personal journey, and then offers six basis points for nonviolence. Dr. King lived and taught these essential ingredients of active…

afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving. They elevated me from all littleness of feelings; and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquilized it." (Chapter X). When Victor seizes to enjoy nature unlike Henry Clerval on their trip in Oxford the readers start…

Q2 Kant and Thoreau Kant in ‘What is enlightenment’ and Thoreau in ‘Civil disobedience’ both have talked to the people to give up blindingly trusting the authorities and developing maturity/moral conscience. They both in a way are trying to make people to think freely and act judiciously not particularly according to the law but according to their morals , according to what is right. Kant has written his work in the time of monarchs while Thoreau has written against the works of a democracy. So…

“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of reality.” This quote by Ayn Rand shows that a group or society can try to pretend that people will stay under control, but in time, a person’s curiosity and independence will shine through. In Anthem, the futuristic society Equality 7-2521 lives in wants to erase the past and its conflicting views, hence a new world is created where all men are expected to live as one in unity, with few new ideas and opinions. Equality’s new society…

Ecocriticism explores how nature and natural world are imagined through literary texts. Ecocriticism is divided into two waves. The first wave is emphasized on nature and writing it as an object of study and as a meaningful practice. The main point of the first wave is the idea that there is environmental crisis regarding the cultural and physical aspects, in the world, so there is need to raise awareness and create solutions for those problems. In first wave ecocriticism, the primary concern…

It is not difficult to find the tale of a golden child gone awry in not only literature, but life as well. However, in the book Into the Wild, author Jon Krakauer captures this stale premise in a way that in compelling, understandable, and above all, trustworthy: a rarity in the world of nonfiction. Into the Wild revolves around the life of Chris McCandless, but it is very much a personal story, made so not only by the author incorporating McCandless’s family in the suffering and loss of their…

Does God really exist? Lee strobel interviewed Lee Wesley Richards, a philosopher and a Guillermo Gonzalez, a scientist in regards to how there is some evidence, from astronomy regarding God’s existence. The Principle of Mediocrity, which is the notion that our surrounding and our evolution are typical rather than exceptional, has been shown to be false through given examples drawn on from astronomy. Due to inequality, Dr. King, a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and his…

Transcendentalism is a movement created in the nineteenth century, influenced by romanticism, that mainly focuses on the idea of individuality and the connection between man, the universe, and nature. It was started by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an author and essayist, who lived in the 1800s. Three ideas that are important to this movement are imagination, insight, and inspiration. According to transcendentalists, these are all gifts from God and are to be regarded highly. Art, poetry, literature, and…

Transcendentalism In Today's Pop Culture “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great transcendentalist who shared many of his beliefs in his writings. Transcendentalism is the philosophy that promotes the understanding that there is goodness in nature and in people, and it is supported in…