David Henry Hwang

The main message in this essay, “Resistance to Civil Government,” is that one man can make a large impact on their government. The writer, Henry David Thoreau, states, “It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.” Once one man gives the government his input on a subject, other men with the same idea will come forward. The government will then have to examine the men’s thoughts and see if their system is flawed. The quote shows that a man…

people choose to treat the nature is up to them, as well as how they choose to perceive it. Transcendentalism is the belief that in order to learn more about oneself, they must go beyond themselves and what they think. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both have very similar ideas about nature and how people treat it in their everyday lives. Both Emerson and Thoreau both believe people can’t own nature, all of our actions affect nature, and that people don’t appreciate the nature…

For all its negative connotations portrayed by the media, civil disobedience is a necessity in a democratic system to bring about foundational changes to the government. Civil disobedience is defined as “refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something” (Merriam Webster). History and literature has many cases of civil disobedience: Antigone burying her brother Polyneices, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr.’s protests for civil rights, and Mahatma Gandhi’s…

Q. In his poetry, Ted Hughes re-casts human and nonhuman relations in a manner which makes man re-think anthropocentrism and its impact on the environment. How can the re-thinking of the category of the human be important in today's world? Elaborate in the light of any 6 poems by Ted Hughes. These poems should include at least four poems that you have not studied in your course. The given statement engages us is to explore the relations of non-human creatures like plants, animals and natural…

A weekend spent in a cabin in the woods of a Southern Chilean town with people I barley know, a lot of rain, and an abundance of beauty absorbed. This was quite the experience for myself. Learning about new cultures and worldviews, facing many fears, pushing my physical and mental limits, and doing my best to understand perspectives I do not necessarily agree with. It was my first official trip outside of the Valparaíso region and I was truly flowing with the moments as they came. No set plans…

Transcendentalism was a movement in philosophy, literature and religion that emerged in the nineteenth century to have originated from New England. The popular movement flourished in America after the American and Industrial Revolution. The philosophical movement expressed and reformed a new way of ideas that changed the way man understood their beliefs, along with knowing where their place is in the world while the society was changing. Transcendental philosophy as well saw that nature…

Two authors, two different people, do not always share the same views on everything; especially government. This is demonstrated through John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and Henry David Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience. Both touch on the topic of government, and what rights human beings are entitled to. Politics is a very controversial topic in itself, but it is incredibly important that everyone creates their own opinions and convictions about said topic. One thing numerous people…

the more profound inspirations was Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was a mastermind that had many ideas that went far beyond the comprehension of many, but those that could understand the man were far from content. Even today, Thoreau’s work of Civil Disobedience leaves people, including myself, inspired in many different ways that can all be narrowed down to one line: An inspiration to be more than just dumb driven…

observing nature and examining self, can better his humanity and become one with God (Goodman). Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two strongly influential transcendentalists whose philosophies continue to provide significant message and meaning. Emerson, as a notorious writer, lecturer, and editor of the transcendental period, was dominant among the transcendentalists. Henry David Thoreau is remembered for his philosophical and naturalist writings, in which he studied under poet…

"It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey." This statement by Henry David Thoreau says what many, every-day people throughout our history have felt in many cases of the law, the need to disobey to cause change. This is called civil disobedience, and it can get one arrested. It is sometimes worth the arrest, however, to keep our freedoms as individuals, and to change what is wrong. When it gets down to it, civil disobedience is all…