Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau - 1849 -- Originally entitled "Resistance to Civil Government"

Thoreau refused to pay taxes in 1846, based on his opposition to the Mexican War, and was later jailed (Abraham Lincoln and he were the only noted Americans who opposed this war). He described the event in this popular essay.

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Gets Cut Off in my iPod

By David - 2006-03-02 06:28

I loved this! But it gets cut off at 26:56 on my iPod. Maybe due to how the low quality MP3 was compressed.

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Re:Gets Cut Off in my iPod
By David - 2006-06-12 04:22
It seems fine now.
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Re:Gets Cut Off in my iPod
By Camron - 2007-12-25 02:21
If you copied it directly from the file when it was not yet fully downloaded, it might have given you part of the whole file. I had this same problem with some other things (podcasts and such) until I figured it out.
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Re:Gets Cut Off in my iPod
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Re:Gets Cut Off in my iPod
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Re:Gets Cut Off in my iPod
By Olsajer - 2008-06-14 18:00
Of course, but what do you think about that?,
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Great work! </p></p><a href="post-op.php?iContent=167&iPostInReplyTo=10">Reply to this Comment</a></div><blockquote></blockquote><div class="comment"><h3>eh...</h3><p class="commentDate">By Mehmoudh - 2006-12-21 06:16</p><p class="commentText"><p>she messed up quite a bit of times...i followed it with the actual essay, and many lines were skipped...but still great! </p></p><a href="post-op.php?iContent=167&iPostInReplyTo=7093">Reply to this Comment</a></div><blockquote></blockquote><a href="post-op.php?iContent=167">Add a New Comment</a></div>  </div>  <div id="navBar">  <div class="relatedLinks"> <h3>Catalog</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/contents.php">Title Index </a></li> <li><a href="/contents.php?iClass=4">Genre Index </a></li> <li><a href="/creators.php?iVerb=1">Author Index </a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="relatedLinks"> <h3>Info</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/voicesinnadark/">News Blog</a></li><li><a href="/content.php?iContent=52">How to Listen</a></li><li><a href="/content.php?iContent=51">Contribute!</a></li><li><a href="/content.php?iContent=171">The Readers</a></li><li><a href="/content.php?iContent=57">About Us</a></li></ul></div> <div class="relatedLinks"> <ul> <li><a href="/rss.php"><img src="/i/xml.gif"></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="relatedLinks"> <h3>Tools</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/login.php">Admin Login </a></li></ul> </div>  </div> <div id="siteInfo"> <a href="/content.php?iContent=56">Copyright</a> ©2004 - 2005 <a href="/content.php?iContent=57">Voices in the Dark</a> |  This work licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">Creative Commons License</a>.  </div> </div> </body> </html>