rozwoj-i-zycie: Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849. Abstract THOREAU’S WORK, which appeared in the only issue of Elizabeth Peabody’s Aesthetic Papers, is arguably the most famous essay in American literature and certainly the most influential, having been cited by Mohandas Gandhi, Marcin Luther King, Jr., and others as having helped form their belief in nonviolent resistance. Although written as a lecture in response to the Mexican War, this essay has a timeless quality because it raises the question of what one should do when one feels, in opposition to the majority, that one is right, and it contextualizes the issue in an actual incident from Thoreau’s life to demonstrate that be…

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In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable. Once regarded as a conspiracy theory, the rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle"). It is the deliberate shortening of the lifespan of a produ…

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Thoreau, Henry David: Resistance to Civil Government

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Henry David Thoreau: Grasping the Community of the World