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    Jeffrey You Mrs. S. Lopez English III AP- 7th 19 February 2013 My Transcendent Experience I sit myself under a tree. Its bare skin is rough compared to the flowing wild grass. The lake in front of me ripples and glistens under the crimson sun. Closing my eyes‚ I allow the cold and sharp wind to envelope me. After awhile I lose all thought. I am now acutely aware of a scratching sound. Opening my eyes‚ my gaze sets upon

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    According to Emerson‚ the author of Self Reliance‚ “Society is a wave. The wave moves onward‚ but the water of which it is composed does not” (Emerson ). Everyone living in this world has a limited amount of time‚ a limited life‚ but an important tradition is to teach our children how to survive just as we learned. Those teachings‚ passed on from generation to generation‚ are the ideas and beliefs that make up a society. These ideals continue on into the future‚ far past any one individual life

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    Who is Chris McCandless? Have you ever wanted to escape from your old life and start a new one? Well Chris McCandless did. Chris McCandless was a transcendentalist (a person that analyzes the process of nature) that wanted to forget about his past . McCandless didn’t want to live the same life anymore‚ he was set out to show his love for nature. McCandless travelled through North America living with harsh necessities and off the land. Throughout McCandless’ adventures of “Into the Wild” he

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    Late nineteenth and early twentieth century German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte argued that the human conscious is grounded within itself. To him‚ the conscious is only aware of what it processes. Everything outside of this realm of awareness is not considered to be real. As a result‚ only that which the human mind perceives to be real is what in actuality‚ exists. Fichte believes “All that appears in our philosophy is a description and presentation of real thinking (Fichte: Early Philosophical

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    David Thoreau used this idea as a main idea of their belief of transcendentalism. Transcendentalism was an American literary‚ political‚ and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century which taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity. Since this movement‚ the ideas of transcendentalism have been reflected in literature‚ movies‚ and music. Dead Poets Society is a movie that reflects on this idea of transcendentalism and nonconformity. Many different urban musical artists have resonated

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    opinion of the main character Neddy‚ because they cannot see his actual thought processes. This point of view gives a tremendous impact to the story. It is one of the most important literary elements Cheever uses to accomplish an outstanding piece of literature. Cheever successfully focuses reader’s attention on exactly the detail‚ opinion‚ and emotion the he wants to emphasize by manipulating third person point of view of in his short story. For example “Had you gone for a

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    CARLOS PALANCA MEMORIAL AWARDS FOR LITERATURE The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Palanca Awards) was established in 1950. The heirs of Don Carlos Palanca‚ Sr. found it most fitting to commemorate his memory through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. The Palanca Awards aims to help develop Philippine Literature by: 1. Providing incentives for writers to craft their most outstanding literary works. 2. Being a treasury of the Philippine’s literary

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    in addition to his mother tongue. Victor got a little education in a small school. At the age of eleven‚ Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris‚ where he got a little education in a small and where he also became infatuated with books and literature. By the time he was fifteen‚ he had already submitted one poem to a contest sponsored by the prestigious French Academy. There he learnt much from an old soldier‚ General Lahorie‚ who‚ obnoxious to Napoleon for the share he had taken in Moreau’s

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    The Open Boat" Sections 1-3 The story opens in the month of January with the oft-quoted line: “None of them knew the color of the sky” (Crane 57). “Them” means four individuals who are aboard a dinghy‚ having been shipwrecked: the captain with an injured arm‚ the correspondent‚ the cook‚ and Billie‚ the oiler. Except for Billie‚ the rest of the characters remain unnamed. The oiler and the correspondent row the dinghy‚ while the captain provides directions and the cook bails water out of the boat

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    McKenna Holmes Mr. Reinhardt English III‚ Period 7 11 December 2013 Transcendentalism Those who think Transcendentalism is just a literary 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

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