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"Self-Reliance is an essay written by American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson . It was first published in his 1841 collection, Essays: First Series. It contains the most solid statement of one of ...

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" Alexander Nehamas (born 1946) is Professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University . He works on Greek philosophy , aesthetics , Nietzsche , Foucault , and ...

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" Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing suc ...

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Edward R. Murrow See it Now (CBSTV, March 9, 1954) "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy " Attachment Size Edward R. Murrow.pdf 108.67 KB Average: Sele ...

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" The Scarlet Letter published in 1850, is a Gothic American romance novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; generally considered to be his masterpiece. Set in Puritan New England (specifically Boston) in the seventeenth century, i ...

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" Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne ; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nat ...

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The pathos of death is this, that when the days of one's life are ended, those days that were so crowded with business and felt so heavy in their passing, what remains of one in memory should usually be so slight a thing. The phantom of an attitude, the ...

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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere. I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's h ...

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"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1844 and collected in Mosses from an Old Manse that concerns a medical researcher in medieval Padua . Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w ...

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"Cornel Ronald West is a prominent African-American scholar and public intellectual. Formerly at Harvard University, West is currently a professor of Religion at Princeton. West's intellectual contributions draw from such diverse traditions as the ...

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