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A Poet Builds a Nation: Hafez as a Catalyst in Emerson’s Process of Developing American Literature [PDF]

, 2014
Numerous studies have tried to elucidate the relationship between Emerson and Hafez. While most of these studies laid emphasis on influence of Hafez on Emerson and others on similarity and/or infatuation, they left untouched some vital historical aspects
Adineh Khojastehpour, Behnam Mirzababazadeh Fomeshi   +1 more
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Could a minimalist lifestyle reduce carbon emissions and improve wellbeing? A review of minimalism and other low consumption lifestyles

WIREs Climate Change, Volume 15, Issue 2, March/April 2024.
Could a minimalist lifestyle reduce carbon emissions and improve wellbeing? Photo by Rachel Claire, ref 4857774. Source: pexels.com. Abstract Everyone must consume, but the wealthy consume more than most. Half of global household emissions come from the world's top 10% of income earners.
Rebecca Blackburn, Zoe Leviston, Iain Walker, Ashley Schram   +3 more
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Reading Thoreau in Another’s Voice Reading Thoreau

MatLit, 2017
Reading Thoreau in Another’s Voice Reading Thoreau is an experimental sound work that elucidates the complex network of materialities present in literature. Two sound sources are taken from two public-domain audio readings of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.
Ryan LaLiberty
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Thoreau as Liberation Thinker [PDF]

, 2014
In lieu of an abstract, here is the article\u27s first paragraph: Henry David Thoreau’s claim to be “a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher” took an unexpected turn for me.
Ruehl, Robert M.
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Yesterday's “lake” endures in its name—The etymology of lake names

Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 1-9, February 2024.
Abstract The global language of limnology is English, but most of our study objects do not have English names. Here, I compare 57,000 lake names in a lake‐rich, non‐English speaking country, that is, Sweden, with a previous analysis of 83,000 lakes in the conterminous United States. The diversity of lake name appellations is strikingly different.
Lars Tranvik
wiley   +1 more source

La esfera, el mol y la ciudad

Kriterion, 2010
Apoyándonos en la noción de "esfera" de Slotedijk, analizamos la protección constituida por los moles. La libertad de elegir en el mol no tiene relación con la libertad individual propuesta por John Stuart Mill; ni con la anarco-individualista propuesta ...
Hernán Neira
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Religious Nonviolence: An Analysis of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thich Nhat Hanh [PDF]

, 2019
This paper will look at the role religion played in shaping the individual movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh. “History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges ...
Campbell, Meghan
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Human Labor and Natural Labor in Henry David Thoreau's Works

Modern Intellectual History
This article argues that Thoreau's concept of “labor” presented as a defense of poiesis—any generative, world-altering activity. Thoreau understood Nature's labor as the ultimate creation for humans to imitate.
Alec Israeli
semanticscholar   +1 more source

El sacrilegio de Maruja Hernández

Kipus: Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales, 2010
Henry David Thoreau, en On the art of writing, dice que “no podemos escribir bien o verdaderamente a excepción de lo que está escrito con gusto”,1 algo que aflora en El sacrilegio de Maruja Hernández.
Sebastián Vallejo
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In Praise of Slacking: Richard Linklater’s Slacker and Kevin Smith’s Clerks as Hallmarks of 1990s American Independent Cinema Counterculture [PDF]

, 2015
Some people live to work, others work to live, while still others prefer to live lives of leisure. Since the Puritans, American culture and literature have been dominated by individuals who have valued hard work.
Małecka, Katarzyna
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