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"Self-Reliance", 2007.
A discussion on self-reliance and bravery in Ralph Emerson's work, "Self-Reliance".
1,441 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper examines how Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay "Self-Reliance" revolves around two key ideas: conformity and consistency. The paper discusses how Emerson says that in order for an individual to be self-reliant he or she must come to terms with these two ideas. The paper further discusses how an individual must fight a brave battle and be courageous to be successful in achieving self-reliance. The paper concludes that once people have learned to trust their innermost hearts and have been individuals in the face of society, then they are ready to follow their own principles.
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"Even Emerson recognizes that sometimes the individual will fail. In a section that might surprise some readers, Emerson criticizes charity. He is not insulting charity for charity's sake. However, he is saying that people fail in their attempts to achieve self-reliance in the face of the many charities that exist. If the charity is not something that a person believes in, the person should be under no obligation to contribute. Nevertheless, society pressures individuals, imposes guilt on them until they do contribute."
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Self Reliance, 2003.
An essay modeled on Emerson's "Self Reliance" that pertains to contemporary society.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper looks at Emerson's "Self Reliance" and how it pertains to contemporary society including the values in society that pressure people to conform to the mainstream. It also discusses the importance to the individual of resisting conformity.
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The Over-Reliance on Rules and Laws, 2004.
This paper contends that the present day over-reliance on statutes and regulations in America as a means to create a just and fair society has achieved just the opposite.
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper, which bases its argument on ?The Death of Common Sense? by Philip K. Howard, contends that the dispensation of justice requires the understanding and practice of the spirit of the law. The author relates that the root of the system is the rationalist movement of the 1960s, which favored statutory law, as it was believed to be more consistent and fair. The paper concludes that the worst malaise of a system that follows the letter and not the spirit of the law is the fear syndrome that it creates, which undermines the very promise of justice to create security, safety, and overall social well-being.
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"Bureaucracies, as is widely acknowledged, usually lead to the stifling of good ideas, innovation, initiative and most important a loss of perspective. Indeed, experience has shown again and again that bureaucracies usually miss the wood for the trees and, in doing so, defeat the larger purpose for which they were set up in the first place. Howard ably demonstrates this very point when he cites the example of Mother Teresa?s nuns of the Missionaries of Charity having to perforce abandon their plans to convert two abandoned buildings into homeless shelters in New York City because of the bureaucratic insistence of the city?s building code that the nuns would have to install a lift (Howard, 3-5). The irony of the situation lies in the fact that the nuns were on a mission to carry out an act of social justice. The city of New York itself had offered the nuns the two buildings at the princely cost of $ 1 each, recognizing the objective of social justice; but the statutory law that was meant to ensure social justice through the protection of human rights would not permit it! This, then, is a clear case where the ?letter? of the law weighed far more heavily than its spirit."
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Reliance on Others, 2006.
This paper discusses reliance on others as a source of weakness, using Bryan D. Dietrich's poem "Man or Superman".
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that Dietrich's argument in the poem "Man or Superman" is that if people rely on others, they are not forced to rely on themselves and so they do not develop the ability to help themselves. The writer explains that Dietrich suggests that people become weak when they rely on others to solve their problems. This paper offers a consideration of Dietrich's argument in which the writer demonstrates that his argument is valid. The writer concludes that a person who relies on others does not give themselves the opportunity to gain knowledge, skills, confidence, or independence. Instead, the writer contends that the person will only become increasingly reliant on others, which also means continually losing control over their own lives and continually becoming weaker.
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"The next important point to note is that the learning experience is not just important because it helps a person deal with the same problem again. Instead, every learning experience can assist a person in dealing with future problems. This is true because a person gains something from every experience and these experience combine to form the person's knowledge and skills. When a new situation arises, a person can then use what they learned in past situations even if there were very different from the current one. Most importantly, a person can combine knowledge from various past situations to come up with a suitable solution to the current problem. This means that it is not necessary for a person to have experienced the exact same problem before. Instead, it is just necessary for the person to have experienced a few problems that share a similar characteristic. In addition, the more problems that a person has solved, the more knowledge and skills they will have to draw from. This makes it more likely that they will have appropriate knowledge to help them solve the current problem. In this way, the more that a person solves their own problems, the stronger they become. In contrast, the less that they solve their own problems, the weaker they become."
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Emerson's Self Reliance and the American Spirit, 2002.
Discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson's perspective and positive assesment of the American spirit.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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The American Renaissance, and thus the American character, was shaped in great part by the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which was expressed in his essay, "Self-Reliance". His essay begins with the recognition of the inherent individuality in man. It is, of course, non-conformity which is the result of this realization. The issue of conformity is an ironic one within the American culture - but the spirit of what Emerson wrote indeed is the embodiment of what is quintessentially American. The concept of self-determination and of total self-reliance is what filled the Pioneers in their Westward movement, it is what drove the creation of free capitalism, and is what has allowed our democracy to remain intact for more than two centuries. While Emerson did not create the non-conformity of the American spirit, he did capture it and glorify it.
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Energy Reliance in the U.S.A., 2002.
This paper attempts to propose a solution to the problem of the emerging energy crisis in America.
1,510 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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The paper begins by looking at the fossil fuel problem ? the depletion of these fuels and the pollution associated with these fuels. It also looks at the problem with foreign suppliers of oil - the instability and pressures that are continually placed on political and militarily considerations in those areas. The paper then moves on to valid alternatives for fossil fuel, namely; photovoltaic technology, fuel cell technologies, use of the windmill and hydrogen power. The paper concludes by proposing solutions to the problem of fossil fuel reliance.
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"America currently relies heavily on oil, natural gas, coal, and other types of non-renewable fuels in order to maintain the energy needed to run America. The American leadership utilizes relationships with many oil-producing countries in order to keep their position of buying and selling the energy needed to suffice the American appetite. A solution to the reliance on fossil fuels must be uncovered in order for America to not be caught in an energy shortage."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-reliance and Nature, 1985.
This paper is a critical analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays on universe, society and individualism.
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"To the modern student, Emerson comes through as a dogmatic, self-centered and rather unoriginal writer. It is only with closer reading that we begin to understand where his greatness lay.
Not for Emerson the "It appears that...," or "This would indicate...," or even the ultimate face-saver, "In my experience...." He writes each word not as if it were dictated by God, but rather that God himself is writing it. He is right. He knows he is right, and he refuses to be humble about it. He knows that since the truth of his statement came from his heart, then that truth resides in the hearts of all men and they thus must recognize it.
He is "readable" for us today because he avoided the hyperbole and rhetoric of most of contemporaries. He is not ... "
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Emerson,"Self Reliance" and Social Contract, 2002.
Discusses 19th Century views on social contract, based on the writings of Emerson.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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Emerson's individualism appears radical when set against the biblical tradition, but it seems conservative to a late-twentieth-century observer in its inability to sever its connections to the sexism and racism that accompanied the inscription of Lockean individualism into the founding documents of the United States. The dominant discourse of that culture spoke in theory about liberty and justice for all individuals, but in practice in 1841 it defined the term "individual" in a strictly limited way. To be an individual was to be white, Christian, male and property-owning. In his public and private writings Emerson struggles to recognize and disavow the exclusion of women and blacks from the social contract, with mixed results. The purpose of this paper is to examine the context of the social contract within the writings of Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2004.
A discussion on how Ralph Waldo Emerson?s later ?Self-Reliance? is far more likely to be appealing to American college students today than his early ?American Scholar?.
730 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper examines how Ralph Waldo Emerson?s transcendentalist philosophy shifted and changed over the course of his life. In particular, it looks at how Emerson?s ideas in his essays ?Self-Reliance? and ?The American Scholar? show profound shifts in judgment on what a human being and a thinker should aspire to be. It attempts to show that the Emerson that is most likely to be amenable to the sensibilities of college students today is likely to be that of his later essay upon ?Self-Reliance,? rather than his earlier ?The American Scholar,? which only manifests the later essay?s ideas in a half-formulated and a much more Christian-focused fashion.
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"Today?s emphasis on postmodernism and the constant restructuring of one?s identity over the course of one?s educational existence makes the lack of consistency and the disdain for tradition expressed by Emerson in the earlier essay to be quite attractive to young college students. ?Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another,? writes Emerson, if we do not constantly reexamine our own opinions. Emerson?s overall philosophy, as expressed in this essay, is that rather than looking to past, European models of excellence and artistic expression, young Americans must create their own, new models that are not hemmed in by past ideals. To live is to constantly reinvent one?s self and life."
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Information Technology ( I.T.), 2002.
Examines the reliance of contemporary executives on I.T. to conduct business.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 31.95
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Examines reliance of contemporary executives on IT to conduct business. Impact of Internet & the World Wide Web (WWW) on business. Variables & changes that characterize the industry. Resistence to change. How chaos theory can be applied to change the role of IT from a reactive to a proactive organization. Discusses the IT approach in which theoretical and applied IT professionals can work together.
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"Introduction
Information Technology has grown out of Information Systems, which were formerly Management Information Systems, which often started as Data Processing groups. The various titles given to these departments illustrate the evolution of the role that information plays within organizations, and the increasingly important role that computers play as part of managing that information. Today's executives depend on information technology not only to provide them with critical reports, but to conduct business in ways which were not thought of even ten years ago. The Internet and World Wide Web has increased the reliance of companies on technology, and the factors which shape that technology have become increasingly complex. This research considers how chaos theory can be applied to changing the role of information technology ..."
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Emerson and Thoreau, 2002.
Compares Ralph Waldo Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? and Henry David Thoreau?s ?Civil Disobedience.?
1,191 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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When one thinks of the American writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, one immediately thinks of personal liberties and freedoms, civil and environmental responsibility and, above all, non-conformity. By comparing the "Self-Reliance" by Emerson and "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau, the paper shows how these issues are reflected in the works of these two writers.
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"Thoreau believed each individual should let it be ?known what kind of government would command his respect and that will be one step toward obtaining it? (Thoreau pg). The government, he felt, valued men, not as creative individuals, but as mere commodities. Like Emerson, Thoreau observed that society rewards those who give themselves partially to good works, calling them benefactors and philanthropists, yet the man who ?gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish? (Thoreau pg).
Emerson believed that each individual should seek peace by looking within and being true to one?s soul. Thoreau believed that man should go one step further by voicing openly his disdain for injustice and intolerance."
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Franklin and Emerson, 2001.
Compares the similarities between Benjamin Franklin's "Way to Wealth" and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "On Self Reliance".
1,160 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper offers a complete analysis of Benjamin Franklin's "Way to Wealth" and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "On Self Reliance" and compares the similar messages they conveyed about wealth, even though the authors were separated by a century in time. Each author, in his attempt to redefine the meaning of wealth, chose to shun religious autonomy in favor of a greater emphasis on the individual.
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"With the birth of the first truly American generation, i.e. those having been born the New World, came a revolution in thought and ideology. Men no longer allowed their pursuit of happiness to be dictated by the callous sermons and chastising admonitions of Puritan stalwarts, namely Winthrop and Edwards. Passionate writers began to shun religious autonomy in favor of the self, challenging the status quo, and dawning the American spirit. Perhaps the most prominent of these writers were Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson who, despite being separated by nearly a century in time and the Revolutionary War, conveyed comparable messages. Franklin?s ?The Way to Wealth? and Emerson?s ?Self-Reliance? each succeed in modernizing the definition of wealth in the mind of the American by focusing on the individual, re-defining the role of the religion, and creating New World virtues which reverberate into my generation."
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Transcendentalism, 2007.
An examination of the philosophy of transcendentalism as it applies to gender differences, focusing on insights from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and Margaret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit."
1,616 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper discusses the philosophy of transcendentalism through the interpretations of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller. It draws from their interpretations and illustrates transcendentalism through Emerson's and Fuller's essays, "Self-Reliance" and "The Great Lawsuit," respectively. The paper then compares their views in terms of gender differences.
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"Emerson also argued how modern society had put down human faculties and ability to learn through his/her feelings--aptly determined as perception. The perception/fact dichotomy has plagued human thinking for many years, and this development in the modern period has been a cause for concern, since, according to Emerson, perception need not be considered as a simple concept that do not have a significant role in influencing human thoughts and feelings. Perceptions, as explicated in the essay, are not "whimsical, but fatal. If I see a trait, my children will see it after me, and in course of time, all mankind--although it may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun." Thus, Emerson believed that humanity should not only give strong belief on facts, but most importantly, on human perceptions. It is only through human perceptions that higher forms of reality and knowledge can be achieved and become humanly possible."
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Walden and Resistance to Civil Government, 2005.
A review of Henry David Thoreau's writings regarding human reliance on government.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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While Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Resistance to Civil Government is frequently categorized as Thoreau's effort to escape from the confining nature of social interaction, it is usually overlooked that one of the major themes in his work was his opposition to reliance on government. This paper contextualizes Thoreau's writings with the example of Joseph and Valerie Wilson.
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"While Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Resistance to Civil Government is frequently categorized as Thoreau's effort to escape from the confining nature of social interaction, it is usually overlooked that one of the major themes in his work was his opposition to reliance on government. Thoreau did not find anything wrong with the American government in and of itself: he stressed in Walden that the ideals present within a democratic society are exceptional and a testament to the efforts of humankind. In contrast, however, Thoreau emphasizes that the government should never replace human interaction, or serve as a substitute. This is because government is incapable of helping human beings. Only human beings are responsible for helping human beings."
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"The Black Cat", 2002.
A literary review of "The Black Cat" showing a human's self reliance and survival.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper suggests that the freedom of the mind is more important and complex than the freedom of the body as can be seen represented by "The Black Cat" where the perverseness of the free mind binds the body.
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