The Simple Things

Walden by Thoreau and Ancient Futures by Norberg-Hodge are both categorized as books that describe pre-WWII simple life where industrialization has not taken place. The authors of both books appreciate human beings who live harmoniously with nature and balance their leisure and working time. On the other hand, Americans described in Schor’s books The Overworked American and The Overspent American live an entirely different so-called “good life”, which destroy nature and environment drastically.…

relationship; Tzu urges generals reading the book, to avoid lengthy campaigns. For example; besieging cities. Tzu states that the essentials for victory are: to keep personal losses at a minimum. The unequal relationship creates an offsetting tone. When things are unequal it creates almost a bad middle in between the two. If you are on one side then you can not be on the other side. Tzu then continues by including an anaphora when he is describing the concept of supreme excellence. He argues…

him lightly, he tries talking to Dwight “Please, Dwight” so that Pearl would be comforted, but Dwight just mocks Toby, showing that his children’s fright means nothing to him. This mocking “Please, Dwight,” he said, is an extremely basic structure, simple sentence piece of dialogue, buts it is so powerful that it magnifies the conflict in the scene by being so realistic. In life, mimicking often occurs in moments of argument, usually among children because it is such a low-intelligence form of…

capital in this profession.” He doesn’t appreciate the fast pace and development of society, but rather prefers the world in its natural state. It’s fascinating to me that Thoreau doesn’t seem to be at all interested in money or social standing, the things that most people are obsessed…

Henry David Thoreau was a man of intelligence, brilliance, and success. He was a Harvard graduate and an educator. He was an activist against the Mexican war and slavery. People never really understood Thoreau. He was a man that seem to have difficulty getting along with others, yet he has “great qualities of intellect and character,” as his close friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne described. Thoreau was an adventurous man who wanted to find out what life is. He tries to figure this out by living a…

Sophisticated Words on the Simple Life: Thoreau’s Rhetoric Nature is a complicated entity whom countless poets and writers have written about. Henry David Thoreau, a highly educated author who frequently wrote about nature, wanted to understand nature and, more importantly, life better. To do so, he went to live in the woods of Walden Pond for two years, and wrote a book about his time there. The resulting work, entitled Walden, discussed Thoreau’s time in Walden. The second chapter named…

tried to make sense of how we currently regulate our roadways. I first looked closer at the vehicle titles the state provides, given the fact this this was of great interest to me. What I discovered was that the titles they provide are not an Allodial titles which would constitute absolute ownership of real property but instead feudal titles. These feudal titles are exactly like the land titles granted to peasants by nobles in medieval Europe when feudalism was the dominant social system. These…

settlement, opportunities of trade, or barbarically raiding villages. None of these would prove to be more pivotal than the settlement of Normandy in Northern France in 912 A.D. An agreement made between Rollo (Scandinavian descent) and Charles the Simple (French descent) was to grant land in return for protection of King Charles’ people. The agreement was known as the Treaty of St. Clair-sur-Epte.…

motivation. But towards the end of the work, we saw that this wasn't the case. Macbeth committed much more evil things to keep himself and Lady Macbeth somewhat safer. And this passage is the first place we learn for sure that this wasn't going to happen. "Using those thoughts which should indeed have died, with them they think on"…

"Lamb to the Slaughter" All around us, we are faced with people who lie and commit awful crimes. While there is not much that meets the eye to these people, inside their actions are driven by a deep vengeance. In the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, we are introduced to a character who goes by the name of Mary Maloney. The story centers around Mary murdering her husband Patrick, and the actions she takes to cover up the crime. In the beginning of the story, Mary gushes to…