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    While there‚ Henry read a book by his neighbor‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Nature‚ and never finished exploring its ideas. He worked for several years as a surveyor and making pencils with his father‚ but at the age of 28 in 1845‚ wanting to write his first book‚ he went to Walden Pond and built his cabin on land owned by Emerson While at Walden‚ Thoreau did an immense amount of reading and writing‚ yet he also spent much time strolling in

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    light and power; he believes in inspiration‚ and in ecstasy."(Emerson 196). These two lines written by Ralph Waldo Emerson exemplify the whole movement of transcendentalist writers and what they believed in. Though to the writers‚ transcendentalism was a fight for a belief‚ unknown to them they could have been fighting for the betterment of human health. The transcendentalist writings of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson have directly affected the health of modern society through the

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    heroes such as Leo Tolstoy‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau and Jack London. The influence that Leo Tolstoy was evident throughout the book Into the Wild. Leo Tolstoy was a religious individual who believed we should finding a meaning in a meaningless world and Tolstoy advocated for a life in poverty. McCandless actions manifested many of Tolstoy’s philosophical views‚ Tolstoy philosophies were probably one of the reasons for which McCandless left his

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    adulthood defines the rite. Principally‚ a singular event cannot accelerate one’s progression into adulthood without one realizing the effects or changes that the event caused. In “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo EmersonEmerson described the idealistic depiction of the Romantic hero’s rite of passage. Emerson states that “The power which resides in him is new in nature” (1)‚ and he believes that a person should seek the meaning of that power for himself. Emerson’s statement that one doesn’t know the

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    presses forward without looking over their shoulder to see where we have been. Without acknowledging our present culture and studying our culture in the past‚ where are we going? Studying Clifford Geertz‚ Patricia Limerick‚ John Wideman‚ and Ralph Waldo Emerson has made it easier for me to answer my own question. These four authors of varying expertise tied together a common thread called culture. Clifford Geertz in his essay "Deep Play" brought us the world of cockfighting in Bali. In this essay

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    truth‚ and communicated with nature to find union with the Over-Soul. When this occurred‚ one was cleansed of materialistic aims‚ and was left with a sense of self-reliance and purity. Two authors who were among the leaders of the movement were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau‚ whose works "Nature"‚ "Self-Reliance"‚ and "Walden" brought America to the forefront of the transcendentalist movement. Their ideas opposed the popular materialist views of life and voiced a desire for freedom of the

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    Essay Learning is a natural ability that is wired into many animals DNA; the way that humans should learn has been debated by the various educators because of the endless ways to teach. Teachers and parents take this matter seriously like Ralph Waldo Emerson in “From Education” and Todd Gitlin in “The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut” who created essays on education; and Billy Collins in “The History Teacher” entail for then and who wrote a poem concerned with the status of education. These people

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    you can. Tomorrow is a new day." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Think about the quotation listed above while you answer the following questions in this webquest. Step one: Gain a basic understanding of Transcendentalism (20 pts). http://womenshistory.about.com/bltranscend.htm?once=true&What is Transcendentalism? http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/amtrans.htm 1. What authors are associated with this movement? Authors associated include: Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ James Martineau‚ and Theodore Parker

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    many different people in the past and present‚ transcendentalism falls amongst all of these ideas. Great philosophers and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two of many that established the mindset that taught people that our spirits have deep connection with nature and that our ideas transcend the natural world as we see it. Both Emerson and Thoreau emphasized greatly on forming decisions without the input of others as well as being able to do what one enjoy rather than

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    experiences… What is it? This is a question which many people dedicate their lives into answering. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the few who has succeeded in answering this question. He weaved his answer into a long and tedious essay‚ which is called "Experience". The only downfall from this work is that it’s solely from his perspective‚ and doesn’t include other people’s ideas as well as his. Emerson believes that people don’t possess the individualistic quality. Everyone is too focused on the

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