Henry David Thoreau Homework Help

how is Henry David Thoreau a trenscendental hero?

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You read Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government, Emerson's Eulogy of Thoreau, Hawthorne's journal entry and Thoreau's biography, now write...

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To what extent do you think Thoreau's audience agreed with him?

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Assess the reasoning behind Thoreou's quote of "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity."

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How does Thoreau use appeals to authority to make his point without sounding like a pedant?

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Was Thoreau a respected writer during his lifetime?

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What was Thoreau’s philosophy on work in "Life Without Principle"?

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Where, in the course of this drama, did the character of Henry strike you as paradoxical?

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Can you help me with the following prompt? "Reread the nightmare scene near the end of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and describe the main...

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What is Thoreau's main argument in "Why I Went to the Woods," in Walden?

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"I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?"  What is the significance...

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can u give a critical estimation of Thoreau's Civil disobidence?

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What qualities does Thoreau envision in an ideal state?

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What conclusions does Thoreau come to after his experiment in Walden?

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"The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation," said Thoreau. Show how he supports this generalization.

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What are some single statements Thoreau uses in Walden that can apply to our own conditions?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier,...

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Who is considered the most famous Transcendentalist from the Transcendentalist movement?

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What are the parallels to Thoreau's description of the ant battle?The ant battle takes place in the chapter Brute Neighbors.

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What are some real world connections to this quote from Thoreau?"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count...

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What are some arguments that Thoreau said "Resistance to Civil Government? Please provide quotes.

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Note how thoreau qualifies his argument in paragraph 40. How does using this strategy serve his rhetorical purpose?  

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Could you help me understand the following paragraph?I am supposed to write my own philosophical essay using Thoreau's style, but I don't even...

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How does Thoreau's aphorism apply to today's society?"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

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I need help with my thesis statement on Henry David Thoreau?  I have to put free thought, importance of nature, self reliance all into a...

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What is the meaning of the quote "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same?"

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Can anyone explain this sentence: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in" ? Thank you!In that sentence, "stream" is a metaphor for time....

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In light of the quote below, what would Thoreau say about the electronic devices we use today?Thoreau writes, "We do not ride on the railroad;...

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How did Thoreau feel about non-conformity, universl soul, and the importance of nature?

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By wanting to be as much like Emerson as possible is Thoreau being insincere in terms of his beliefs?

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What is Thoreau's position as a teacher? Does he believe in teaching?

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Which of Thoreau’s arguments did you find convincing?Which of Thoreau’s arguments did you find convincing?

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resistance to civil government, are the assumptions and values that thoreau reveals in this essay fundamentally Romantic?

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  What's the differences of Henry david thoreau and Ralph waldo Emerson?I'm writin a paragraph about the differences style between Henry and...

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To Thoreau, what did the tax gatherer represent?

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Understanding Poetry Solitude   How still it is here in the woods. The trees Stand motionless, as if they did not dare To stir, lest it...

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Is there evidence in Thoreau’s essay “Wild Apples” that he is venting his displeasure with America?

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How did the time period of Sand County Almanac by Leopold and Walden by Thoreau influence the authors and what they wrote about?

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Can anyone help me find songs that reflect Thoreau and/ or Transcendental ideas?Can anyone help me find songs that reflect Thoreau and/ or...

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Do you think that Thoreau is an impractical dreamer?Do you think that Thoreau is an impractical dreamer?

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I'm writing an essay about compare and contrast of Emerson and Thoreau.  Could some one give me an idea?I'm writing an essay about compare...

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Thoreau essay is full of metaphors  ( the metaphor on page 128 and 433). Each time you encounter a metaphor in your rereading mark it.the...

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How did Thoreau's individualism affect his attitude toward nature and politics?Thoreau and nature Thoreau and politics

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I read a famous article over Thoreau and Emerson and I want to know what would you think is Thoreau's view of Emerson, and how does Emerson...

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List the reason that Thoreau present for not pying a tax support a clergyman.

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What advice does Thoreau offer to thoese who live in Propert?  walden

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Machiavelli might be described as a sixteenth-century spin doctor teaching a ruler how to package himself.Machiavelli might be described as a...

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What was Thoreau's view on civil disobedience, or nonviolent resistance?

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In "The Battle of the Ants," how does Thoreau blur the distinction between history and natural history? To what effect?ordinarily we speak of...

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"Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it." Meaning of the...

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