ever been to Tennessee? Well i have and it was a great time. Why not go to Tennessee is you can because if you can you should. Tennessee us a great place‚ it has good food and buildings. I will always love Tennessee. Why i went to Tennessee I went to Tennessee because why not? I went because i had to‚ it is a family vacation every year. I also went because it was a free week out of school and I got a free cabin because my grandma and grandpa payed for it. I also went because it is just a beautiful
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There is a common desire in humans to gain absolute freedom and wildness in one’s lifetime. Obviously‚ there are many ways to acquire such characteristics‚ but we learn from the renowned author‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ that we can find these eminent privileges by “walking.” Thoreau wrote the essay “Walking” while he was restricted to bed‚ dying of tuberculosis. While suffering from his disease‚ he ironically emphasized the magnitude‚ importance‚ and privilege of spending four hours a day walking‚ becoming
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During the 1800s‚ Henry David Thoreau who wrote about many different topics‚ from love to politics to religious views to nature. He is famously known for being one of the most famous Transcendentalists‚ during his era. The Transcendentalist Era was a time when writers “asserted the existence of an ideal spiritual reality and scientific reality” (“Transcendentalist.” The Free Dictionary) into their work. In his works‚ especially in the poem “Friendship‚” Thoreau uses imagery‚ metaphors and rhyme
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Huckleberries‚ by Henry David Thoreau‚ in the story he talks about working with huckleberries and getting everything paid for‚ for example‚ clothes and his schooling. He got it all paid for by picking huckleberries. In huckleberries he expresses how people are putting up signs and warning pickers away from their huckleberry fields and have to go to the store just to buy them‚ when you should be able to just go anywhere and pick some. The country life shouldn’t have private huckleberry fields onto
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Henry David Thoreau lived through a time of great change in America and in the world. Born in 1817 in Concord‚ Massachusetts‚ Thoreau grew up in an environment that inspired many famous American authors such Nathanial Hawthorne‚ Louisa May Alcott‚ and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau was ‘mentored’ under Emerson and started writing in the transcendentalist fashion. In the 1840s‚ Thoreau wrote poetry about nature and started to follow the transcendentalist movement. The transcendentalist movement was
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Henry David Thoreau wrote prominently about the importance of a working democracy and advocated for equality among all citizens. In The Duty of Disobedience‚ he states‚ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power‚ from which all of its own power is derived and treats him accordingly…A State which bore this kind of fruit and suffered to drop off as fast as it ripened‚ would prepare the way
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King Jr. and David Thoreau. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” is about MLK Jr.’s experience with civil disobedience. MLK Jr. himself‚ committed an act of civil disobedience and stood up for what was right. As did David Thoreau in “From Civil Disobedience”. These men knew the law and the consequences that would follow‚ but they understood what would benefit from their act of disobedience. Anyone can be disobedient to the law‚ just like MLK Jr. and David Thoreau‚ but understanding
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Reasons Why I Went Back To School Robyn Curry ENG 121 Kathy Graham August 30‚ 2012 Everyone has to work for a living. The choice is yours whether or not you enjoy it. I am fortunate that I enjoy my career field; I just don’t love the monetary benefits. This‚ among many other reasons‚ is why I decided to go back to school. Obtaining a job that pays better‚ showing my kids how important having an education is‚ and challenging myself to make a better life for my family are the reasons why I went
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If people do not protest‚ can they 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
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Henry David Thoreau spent much time studying nature and applying those studies to the human condition. His Transcendentalist ideas shone through in his writings and his life. In “Economy” he asks‚ “Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth‚ but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above” (Thoreau 58). He asks this question in response to man’s ever increasing need to have more than the basic necessities of life. In other words‚ if we have warmth‚ food‚ water‚ and clothing
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