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    Shemekia Dennis SPA 3335 Dr. Brookshaw 27 February‚ 2011 Romanticism in El Matadero Esteban Echeverría‚ who spent five years in Paris before returning to Buenos Aires in 1830 when he became a political agitator against the tyrant Juan Manuel de Rosas‚ is credited with bringing romanticism to Spanish America. As a poet‚ he is remember for his narrative ballad La cautiva‚ the story of a white girl’s escape from enslavemente by nomadic Indians. Echeverría inaugurated the theme of the pampas as

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    English romanticism can be defined a literary era in which several characteristics are utilized to cause meaning. During this time‚ “...emphasis shifted to the importance of the individual’s experience in the world and one’s subjective interpretation of that experience‚ rather than interpretations handed down by the church or tradition” (Romanticism). Numerous tenets highlighted several of the beliefs of this period and their shifted mindset of individual experience‚ represents one of the many tenets

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    Melanie Milam Honors English II Mrs. Nelson 2 April 2014 Transcendentalism; Positive or Negative Transcendentalism is a social and philosophical movement that taught five tenets of how to live life. Those tenets being; Everything reflects the divine soul‚ God is in nature and man‚ use your intuition to relate to God and nature‚ be self-reliant and express your individualism‚ and be spontaneous and seize the day. Thoreau and Emerson reflect all of these tenets in their poems‚ and they’re shown

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    famous preachers of transcendentalism‚ an ideology that formed after the intellectual period. Emerson and Thoreau were authors who wrote about the concept and Fuller was an influencer of the cause and an early pioneer for feminism. Sal Khan is the author of this article. His audience is students who come to his website to learn. Like the last bibliography‚ the standpoint of Khan is from a teacher’s perspective so it is unbiased and purely for educational purposes. Transcendentalism came from a philosophy

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    * Second Bank of the United States-chartered in 1816 part of American System; Clay wanted to use bank as campaign issue; Jackson vetoed bill to charter the bank again in 1832 and refused to put federal money into the national bank but put it into pet banks which put the nation into an economic depression‚ Panic of

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    Of the varying identities people may have‚ transcendentalism is one that causes people to entirely change how they live their lives. For example‚ in Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris‚ who grew up privileged‚ gave away all of his possessions to live in nature. The transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century had a large impact on authors of the century. Among those‚ multiple authors from the century‚ including Hawthorne‚ Thoreau and Emerson were influenced especially in their writings.

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    The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement in the mid 1800 (19th century); the movement revealed romanticism which mainly included enthusiasm‚ appeal to the super-natural (extraterrestrial)‚ and emotion; it rejected the skeptical of enlightenment. The theory of the movement began around the 1790s but it gained its popularity around the 1800s‚ by the 1850s the movement was at its peak (climax). The awakening arose mainly in the Baptist and Methodist congregations due to the preachers

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    Transcendentalism in modern music Transcendentalism influenced the 19th century and emphasized on the value of the individual and intuition. It was an idea that people were at their best when they we self reliant and independent. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the movements most important figure along with his main follower Henry David Thoreau. These two people were the most influential people during this movement. Transcendentalism was all about being an individual and it still endures today in modern

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    new inventions‚ and diversity. Americans wanted to attain a culture that was unique and did not resemble Europe in any way. Groups dissatisfied with European representations of government and life styles in general‚ initiated Utopian models organized by leaders whose focus was to bring together groups of people to form a perfect society. “UTOPIA is originally a Greek word for an imaginary place where everyone and everything is perfect.” The objective of these Utopian groups was to develop an organization

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    I chose the reading by Emerson; I believe there is a lot of transcendentalism in this reading. Well I don’t believe there is a lot of transcendentalism‚ starting with the first paragraph first sentence where he writes‚ “Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies‚ histories‚ and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we‚ through their eyes.” He writes in confidence about his beliefs and how he feels about‚ basically

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