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    Quiz 16: Thoreau Directions: Answer the following questions in paragraph format. Be thorough in your response‚ use examples from the text‚ and be sure to address all parts of each question. 1. In the final paragraphs of “Solitude‚” Thoreau asks the following rhetorical questions: “Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?” What does he mean when he writes “intelligence with the earth” (a very different thing from saying intelligence of the

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    Michael Smith English 11 G-2 Emerson vs. Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were extremely wonderful writers and renowned poets. Both had so much influence on early and even present literature. It is amazing what you can learn about each individual. First‚ I would like to start by introducing Emerson. Born May 25‚ 1803 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Just two weeks before his eighth birthday‚ Emerson’s father died of stomach cancer. He went on to live with his aunt

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    Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience According to the Encarta World English Dictionary‚ civil disobedience is the deliberate breaking of a law by ordinary citizens‚ carried out as nonviolent protest or passive resistance. Henry David Thoreau‚ author of Civil Disobedience‚ had idealistic motives. He visualized a perfect government‚ free of harm‚ fault‚ and malfunction. Of course‚ this government he spoke of was purely off his needs‚ failing to review or analyze the needs of his fellow citizens

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    Henry David Thoreau asks‚ in his essay‚ “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them‚ or shall we endeavor to amend them and obey them until we have succeeded‚ or shall we transgress them at once?” (184) The answer will depend on which side of the law or the laws you are on‚ minority or majority. When the laws are made by the majority the laws can’t all be just‚ expect for the majority that wanted it. Should the wise minority be able to disobey laws that were created by the majority? Obeying

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    Google+ Gmail Calendar more All DocsEdit Into the Wild vs Thoreau ’s Walden Bally Elizabeth Bally Mr. Cunic English 11 Honors 13 Jan. 2013 Into the Wild vs. Walden Into the Wild is a movie based on the adventure of Chris McCandless as he breaks away from his civilized life and travels across the country to live in Alaska. Chris bases his journey off the core beliefs of the novel Walden by Henry David Thoreau. The novel is a description of Thoreau’s life as he exiles himself

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    Hester Prynne and Henry David Thoreau: Rebels in Society Hester Prynne is an anarchic force that destabilizes the status quo‚ allowing change to occur. She is a strong character‚ a rebel ostracized from society. The isolation she lives in brings her sorrow‚ yet grants her freedom of thought. Hester rejects the imprisoning commands of an accusatory society and has the will to fight against their influence over her nature. Henry David Thoreau also rebelled against the established orders of

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    Thoreau always knew that nature had a deeper meaning than what is just on the surface. He knew Walden Pond not just on the surface but he dove into Walden Pond and found greater meanings. Thoreau was a Transcendentalist‚ who believed that there was this higher meaning behind nature. He believed that one could find God in the nature that was around. And Throughout Walden‚ Henry David Thoreau observes nature as this element that has a greater meaning and that meaning is that new life and rebirth can

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    righteously call a government unfair? If they protest violently‚ should any authority listen to them? There must be a middle way. Henry David Thoreau‚ a great author and pioneer in transcendentalism wrote the essay “Civil Disobedience”‚ in which he reminds us‚ “All men recognize the right of revolution;... the right to refuse allegiance to‚ and to resist‚ the government‚ when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.” This is the thin line that we must walk. Civil disobedience has

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    the essay‚ “Where I Lived‚ And what I Live For”‚ Henry David Thoreau writes about his experience moving and living in woods at Walden Pond. He describes how he would cut things he would do in his daily life down to proportion; for instance‚ instead of eating three times a day‚ just once. Through this experience‚ Thoreau is able convey his values and how he sees life. He introduces values such as naturalism‚ individualism‚ and self-sufficiency. Thoreau claims he moves to Walden because he "wished to

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    "He keeps casting conformity behind him". Henry David Thoreau was never one to conform to society’s norms. It is very apparent that this entire play’s main idea is nonconformity. That is the way Thoreau lived his life. Many transcendentalists speak of what they wish to live their life as‚ however‚ it was Thoreau who went further than just discussing Transcendentalism; he put it into practice when he refused to pay the poll tax that supported the war efforts. He lived in the way he viewed as correct

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