Henry David Thoreau – Walden 1 In the middle of Thoreau explains that he went to the woods to “live deliberately” and “to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life” (p. 967). What does Thoreau mean by this? How might a person “live what was not life”? 2. Summarize the paragraph that […]
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Do you agree with this point-What boundaries should exist to those interventions?
Post 1: Look at Henry David Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government.” He claims that it is not just our right as Americans, but it is also our duty to defy unjust laws. This is a very American idea. Part of the American identity involves intervening in the face of injustice. Do you agree with this […]
How are these judges considered liberal or conservative-What makes their decision-making identify them as one or the other.
TRUTH AND JUSTICE -How important is truth? CONSIDER this article “Does Truth Matter?” by Carl Sagan https://skepticalinquirer.org/1996/03/does-truth-matter-science-pseudoscience-and-civilization/ This is a dense expression of the myriad of farcical notions we humans have about life. It questions what we know, but mostly what we think we know or what we superstitiously know or what we think our […]
