For almost as long as telephones have been a common feature in homes and offices, telecommunication companies have regularly been faced with a situation where demand in a particular street or area exceeds the number of physical copper pairs available from the pole to the exchange.
This incident prompted Thoreau to write his famous essay, âCivil Disobedienceâ (originally published in 1849 as âResistance to Civil Governmentâ). Thoreauâs minor act of defiance caused him to conclude that it was not enough to be simply against slavery and the war. A person of conscience had to act.
Both are concepts based on essays written by two Transcendentalists in the 1840sââSelf-Reliance,â by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841; and âCivil Disobedience,â then called... Asked by remleyb8808 on February 8, 2016 at 8:53 PM via web