... of both anti-American Americans and anti-American foreigners. Timothy McVeigh, the main party responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 which left 168 dead, is in the end not too far from Osama bin Laden, the Afghani terrorist allegedly behind the embassy and USS Cole blasts: both hate ... bombers are only the most recent examples. Kaczynski's concerns are, or should be, ours as well. In his manifesto he writes chiefly of modern man's increasing loss of freedom in the wake of computers and genetic engineering; he cites motorized transport as an example of technology intended for ...

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... Thoreau, nature was a living being. He wanted to do more than just enjoy its beauty. Thoreau wrote, "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine-trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it" (Hough 263). Thoreau did ... was wasting his time. Many people thought transcendentalism was for crazy people. Others always asked, "Why doesn't he ever do anything? He's always just walking around" (Burleigh 5). He was always finding small insignificant, out of the way things to excite him, or call forth a memorable phrase. Thoreau belie...

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