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Henry David Thoreau Moving To Walden Research Paper

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Thoreau Would Bring the Internet If Henry David Thoreau was alive today, he would bring the internet. As Danny Heitman wrote of in his article, “If Thoreau Were to Move to Walden Today, Would he Bring the Internet? Maybe,” Thoreau was a bit of a hypocrite. Demanding he could borrow books from libraries that had regulations that no one unless that one is within a certain category can not check out books. And his response to that was retaliation in the form of, maybe even unbeknownst to himself, hypocrisy. Thoreau once argued: “We do not ride the railroads; it rides upon us” (par. 2). As well as saying things like that railroads were not needed and that man should live without such technology. And yet Thoreau, when the Harvard Library told
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