who is henry david thoreau and what did he stand for? what did he do and how did he do it?
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He was a paradox: he was for civil disobedience (influenced Gandhi and MLK) but without the wish for revolution.\nSo he decided to protest in his little house of Walden, in the outskirts of his hometown. This apparent seclusion didn't prevent him to have dinner with his parents sometimes (lol)!\nHe went to jail a few times.\nHe also influenced the Transcendentalists because of his vision of Nature.\nInteresting persona, even though "Walden" is not always very existing!
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OMG there is intelligent life!!!!!\n\nI live in NC on the coast and have basically rebelled against 'normal' society by leaving an engineering degree at age 39 to live a free and careless life. \n\nWhen I talk to ppl about this around here, I sometimes say, "I am living Thoreau's Civil Disobedience." And mind you, I have said this to successful ppl... ie, just two days ago I said this to a new neighbor.\n\nI have yet to find a single person that has any clue what I am talking about... they have no clue what Thoreau's Civil Disobedience is.\n\nThanks for such a wonderful question.\n\nBtw, my thoughts on it should be self-defined. I'm as extreme as he was on Walden's pond. I've asked questions about why do we have to wear seat belts, have license checks,etc...\n\nI recently went ballistic concerning the new Mass. law requiring all residents of that state to acquire health insurance in order to be a valid resident.\n\nIf a US citizen so chooses, he or she should be able to have NO allegiance whatsoever. Based on the freedom of passage concept of our forefathers, if we so choose, we should be able to live off our land freely without prejudice or penalty.\n\nOnce again, wonderful question.
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Short answer: He made people have an appreciation for nature\n\nThe Importance of Self-Reliance\nFour years before Thoreau embarked on his Walden project, his great teacher and role model Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an enormously influential essay entitled “Self-Reliance.” It can be seen as a statement of the philosophical ideals that Thoreau’s experiment is meant to put into practice. Certainly self-reliance is economic and social in Walden Pond: it is the principle that in matters of financial and interpersonal relations, independence is more valuable than neediness. Thus Thoreau dwells on the contentment of his solitude, on his finding entertainment in the laugh of the loon and the march of the ants rather than in balls, marketplaces, or salons. He does not disdain human companionship; in fact he values it highly when it comes on his own terms, as when his philosopher or poet friends come to call. He simply refuses to need human society. Similarly, in economic affairs he is almost obsessed with the idea that he can support himself through his own labor, producing more than he consumes, and working to produce a profit. Thoreau does not simply report on the results of his accounting, but gives us a detailed list of expenditures and income. How much money he spent on salt from 1845 to 1847 may seem trivial, but for him it is not. Rather it is proof that, when everything is added up, he is a giver rather than a taker in the economic game of life. \nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/walden/themes.html\n\nOther sites:\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/walden.asp\nhttp://www.bookrags.com/notes/wal/
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I can tell who John Muir is, but I don't know anything about the other two. \n\nJohn Muir was an enviromentalist, in California. He wanted to preserve nature and restore the woods back to its true nature. He aslo was an advocate to stop the logging companies, in California, Oregon, and Washington. He has a national park named after him, in California, called Muir Woods. It's a large Red Wood forest.
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Early Nineteenth-century naturalist author and artist.  His name was John James Audubon.  He is best known for his closely observed large scale paintings of birds.  "The Birds of America" was a well-known work of his.  He travelled and explored extensively as part of his work.\n\nHere's a couple from The National Gallery of Art:  http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?129208+0+0\n\nhttp://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?32223+0+0\n\nYou may have heard of the conservationist group, the Audubon Society.  It is named after him.  \n\nI have linked to a website related to an exhibition about him from the New York Historical Society.  There you can see a few of his paintings, learn more about him, and follow further links if you are interested.
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do a yaho search or google him
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Thomas Jefferson used the social contract theory to say that since the king was not governing as the people needed, we had the right to form our own government. (Declaration of Independence)\n\nJames Madison wrote the Constitution. His first line was "We the people..."
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D. Thaddeus Stevens\n\n"Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 - August 11, 1868), also known as "The Great Commoner," was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was a Radical Republican, and one of the dominant figures in Congress, 1861-1868."
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who the hell dosnt know who he is??
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John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an influential English philosopher and social contract theorist. He developed an alternative to the Hobbesian state of nature and argued a government could only be legitimate if it received the consent of the governed and protected the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate. If such a consent was not achieved, Locke argued in favour of a right of rebellion.\n\nLocke's ideas had an enormous influence on the development of political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory. His writings, along with those of the writings of many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, contributed to the American revolutionaries as reflected in the American Declaration of Independence.
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It was a magazine called "Common Sense", by Thomas Paine. If you use\n["Thomas Paine" "Common Sense"] \nin Google you should be able to read all about it. Note the two sets of quotation marks.
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Never heard of him. What does he do then? Is it any good? God, now I'm intrigued and I'm going to have to go and look! Blast!
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he was part of a start a minor movement in the us at the turn of the century to care abotu hte enviro along with teddy roosevelt. he wrote about the beauty and wonder of nature and it became an escape for many people stuck in the dirty citys of the industrial revolution. some could not get out for a holiday etc. and this was theri only means of escape...it also goes along with the impressionist movement in art with painters like monet and manet etc.
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robert louis stevenson\n\nwho knows when
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Englebert Humperdink.  \n\nIt's a fun name to say!
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Serious answers? Oh Ok, this time I am being honest when I say I am expert on the American Revolutionary War and the events leading up to it.\nThe Boston Tea party came about because ole King Georgie III made a decree that it was illegal for colonists to use the letter "T".\nNow that don't sound like much, but try and talk without using the letter "T". My last sentence would go like this, "Now ha don' sound like much, bu ry and alk wihou using he leer " ". See why they were ticked off?\nAnyway, they cut out all these letter T's from the local sugar maples and threw it on on of the British ships until it finally capsized.\nTrue story
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ok, you have to look at what makes a great leader.  You have the core values, but you need to do a little digging.  What was his vision?...That slaves become free and what did that mean.  Being free didn't make slaves citizens.  \n\nWhat was he passionate about?  You can open any history book and find that answer to that.  life, liberty and pursuit of freedom.  Think about what was going on at that time.\n\nWhat decisions did he make and why were they considered good.  Look to the site below and critically think about what decisions were made.\n\nPlus, Abe could debate.  Think about leaders and think about how they do with pubic speaking.  Do we consider George W. as a good leader.  No. But he can't speak either.  Hitler was horrible man, but why did a whole country follow him.  He could speak and articulate ideas well.  This encourges followers.\n\nAbe was known as a moral man.  Think about the morals of the time.  You must remember thou.  Why was he percieved as an ethical man.  If slaves were not seen as people and he comes along to fight to give them rights and citizenship.  It means that more people percived him as ethical.\n\nHope this helps.