lack of individual attention have also remained a problem through history‚ and teachers cpntinue to underestimate their students‚ though what they underestimate about their students has changed with time. These issues have been ctritiqued by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Malcolm X‚ and Francine Prose‚ and still affect classroom learning today‚ preventing students from reaching their full potential. One of the most obvious ways students are blocked from reaching their potential is through racism in the classroom
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learn by going where I have to go. - Theodore Roethke * MQ7. Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle * MQ8. But in the mud and scum of things There always‚ always something sings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson * MQ9. Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. - Ralph Waldo Emerson * MQ10. For myself‚ I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill * MQ11. Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest
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Part I. Ralph Waldo Emerson In an essay published in 1841‚ Emerson addressed one of the central characteristics of the American sensibility: individualism. Before you read‚ take a moment to think about the term “self-reliance” and what it means to you as a teenager and a student. As you read‚ determine what “self-reliance” meant to Emerson and how your meaning and his overlap. • Read "Self Reliance." • Open and complete the questions on the Emerson Questions page. • Then‚ continue to
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experience happiness in life. When you stop and deal with your issues and insecurities‚ you are on the road to a more well and vibrant you and hence achieving success will be easy. “Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” – Ralph Waldo
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March 14‚ 2013 Foundations for Life Essay “The only way to have a friend is to be a friend‚” Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ a great American philosopher and writer. (1803 – 1882) Many say that the only way to be a friend is to be one. Loyalty and trustworthiness are essential qualities that you and you friend must hold. In order to build trust‚ a friend must be a true‚ loyal person at all times. For that reason‚ trust and loyalty are two major characteristics one must contain in a true friendship
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American Scholar Reflective Writing The various ideas presented in the American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson both influences my previous beliefs but also challenged a few in the process. As Emerson kept elaborating on what a scholar must do‚ learn‚ and be‚ I took into account‚ over all other ideas‚ the mind of the scholar must not defer to the thoughts of the generally accepted. This idea spoke to me more than the other claims such as inaction of belief or constant learning of new subjects because
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The Scarlet Letter: Nature’s Individualist Every individual is born universally in nature‚ all starting from the same humble beginnings. The only way we gain our originality in life‚ is when we look deeper into the eyes of nature and see that her small flaws are mirrored in us as well. In the novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester Prynne embodies the characteristics of the self- reliant individual. The novel takes place in Puritan sixteenth century Massachusetts telling the story
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movement that took place in the early 1800s are only half correct. Transcendentalism is indeed a literary movement; however‚ it is much more than that. It is meant to challenge people to think for themselves and cause change. Authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee taught the importance of non-conformity and civil disobedience through short stories such as “Self Reliance” and “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”‚ and the play‚ The Night Thoreau
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author was his wittiness and modern sense of humor. In Twain’s Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech‚ he uses his skill in satire and humor to a deliver a catastrophic speech during the social gathering of three of New England ’s literary greats: Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Oliver Wendell Holmes‚ and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Twain had very unique humorist techniques. Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech was a skillfully written humorous satire of the evening ’s three most prominent guests. “Mr. Emerson was a
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"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is a fiction story of a character whose destiny was affected by marvelous circumstances. In comparison to Benjamin’s Franklin Autobiography and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self reliance‚ there are some things that are similar‚ but overall Rip Van Winkle is completely different; in other words‚ its main character is unique. I found several evidences proving that. First‚ the book itself is written in an inimitable style. In the very beginning of this work with the
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