Moral and Ethical Conflict Over the Mexican-American War 
.... S. & Wheeler, W. "Chapter 9: Making Value Judgments:
Thoreau, Douglas, Polk, and the Mexican
War." Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence. ....
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Thoreau on Civil Disobedience
....
Thoreau opposed slavery and
war and used civil disobedience to express his beliefs and to prick the conscience of the government. ....
(768
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Ethics: When is justifiable to violate the law?
.... for refusing to pay his tax on the ground that the tax was being used to enforce ithe Fugitive Slave Law and prosecute the Mexican
War (
Thoreau 656), both of ....
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Civil Disobedience Action
....
Thoreau opposed slavery and
war and used civil disobedience to express his beliefs and to prick the conscience of the government. ....
(1766
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Emerson v. Thoreau: A Comparison of Philosophies
.... philosophy that evolved out of 19th Century, prior to the Civil
War, specifically in .... Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David
Thoreau are two of the most well known ....
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Thoreau-Resistance to Civil Govt.
.... However,
Thoreau argues we often subvert our higher and transcendental nature and moral conscience .... For example, we may be totally opposed to a
war in a foreign ....
(578
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Compassionate Nonviolent Resistance
....
Thoreau was opposed American aggressions in the Mexican-American
war and refused to pay
war taxes as a measure of his resistance. ....
(1790
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Notions of Manhood in Frederick Douglass and Thoreau
.... He condemns those "who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the [Mexican
war], who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them" (
Thoreau Resistance 1708 ....
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Emerson, Hawthorne & Thoreau
.... Society is at
war with the individual, Emerson says, and this is the basic .... Henry David
Thoreau, in his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," focuses on ....
(2564
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The Platonic dialogues
.... although he was never in such peril as Socrates,
Thoreau found himself mixing it up with government and culture as America moved toward Civil
War (Krutch 10-13 ....
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Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill
.... He derived the idea from his reading of Henry
Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, the New Testament .... British rule of India, and he helped recruit Indians for World
War I. He ....
(1344
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4 Essays on Key Events of US History
.... Lee sees opposing the
war as supporting troops who are being wasted by a .... civil disobedience was derived by Gandhi a well from the works of Henry David
Thoreau. ....
(2173
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Into the Wild
.... is likely that were he alive today, McCandless would view the Iraq
war as a .... modeled on many of the principles of self-sustenance advocated by
Thoreau in Walden ....
(2665
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Into the Wild: Christopher McCandless
.... is likely that were he alive today, McCandless would view the Iraq
war as a .... modeled on many of the principles of self-sustenance advocated by
Thoreau in Walden ....
(2665
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Both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. w
....
Thoreau himself had been jailed for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government whose policies he considered unjust. Tolstoy wrote essays that criticized
war ....
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Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World: A review
.... of Ruskin on nature and
Thoreau on civil disobedience (interestingly,
Thoreau himself had been .... in India was demonstrably high during the First World
War and in ....
(2003
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)
The Early History of Boston's North End
.... After the Revolutionary
War, Boston went back to its accustomed maritime activity, shipping .... nature of some of its nearby residents such as Henry David
Thoreau. ....
(1495
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The Dialectic of Freedom
.... During the early World
War II years, the extent of the oppression of Jews ....
Thoreau saw, for example, that the country was heading toward an overly industrialized ....
(2647
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Theory of Law
.... the vicissitudes or terror and of triumph in
war, you know that there is such a thing as .... He rejected the views of Henry David
Thoreau, who withdrew from society ....
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Factors of the World of Work
.... Anderson, writing at the end of the Cold
War period and before the time of tremendous .... Henry David
Thoreau gave up working and lived in a cabin on Walden Pond. ....
(3940
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Rise of American Literature During the 20th Century
.... recently, it had been through the bitter internal battle of the Civil
War. .... While occasional 19th century writers, most notably Henry David
Thoreau and Mark ....
(1396
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Beat Generation
.... roots of the Beat writers are founded in transcendentalism,
Thoreau, and Whitman. .... Mainly children of the depression and World
War II adolescents, these writers ....
(2459
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Corso and Rich
.... roots of the Beat writers are founded in transcendentalism,
Thoreau, and Whitman. .... Mainly children of the depression and World
War II adolescents, these writers ....
(3228
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James Buchanan's Theory of Public Choice
.... of Tennessee and after serving in the US Navy in World
War II, earned a .... off he is." Here, he seems to share a philosophical position also advanced by
Thoreau. ....
(1157
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Industrial Society and its Future
.... to one journalist, "It is considered something of a declaration of
war by a .... using the passive-resistance and social disobedience methods of
Thoreau, Gandhi and ....
(987
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Women Poets of the Late 20th Century
.... By his own account
Thoreau was both horrified and fascinated by the spectacle of the .... by patriarchal assumptions about the uses and value of violence and
war. ....
(6095
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The Developing Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
.... The authorized "autobiography" of King cites his reading of
Thoreau's essay "On Civil .... flight from Egypt, tying that to a secular American Civil
War hymn, in ....
(2147
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Image of Indian in 19th Century Historical Novel
.... a crisis of conscience in the literary treatment of Indians by
Thoreau, Hawthorne, and .... contemporary with the early years of the French and Indian
War for the ....
(3859
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Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Poetry
.... After World
War I, Tagore joined Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and other advocates .... Romantic conception of unity that affected America poets like Emerson and
Thoreau. ....
(2511
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Minimalism & Ann Beattie
.... of postmodernism as represented by those writing fiction after World
War II is .... She depicts the lives of quiet desperation that
Thoreau simply claimed the great ....
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