“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” These words‚ written by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ are strong and wise‚ but so many people choose not to follow them. In today’s society‚ as well as in the past‚ people have defaulted to conformity. Society has created this ideal image for all people to follow. There are few people who choose to go against what society wants and choose‚ instead‚ to be individuals. Being an individual separates
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The 35th U.S. President once said‚ “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”. John F. Kennedy led the country to believe in individuality and follow our paths outside of society. Conformity has been shown in many ways in history and most lead to substandard endings. When people do not follow society’s wishes‚ diversity is defeated and they‚ themselves‚ become successful. While conformity is the reason for some of America’s most devastating events found in our history books today
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Imagine yourself at three years old. What would you be doing? Would your mom be hovering over you making sure you didn’t hurt yourself or get into any trouble? Or would you be downstairs in the living room watching the television and playing with your Barbie dolls? At the age of three Jeannette Wall’s was cooking hot dogs while her mother painted in the next room. In The Glass Castle‚ the developing theme of the book is self-sufficiency‚ which is a topic that emerges many times thought the narrative
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Gone are his nonconformist attitude‚ his rebellious thoughts‚ and his idealistic dreams of passion. Instead‚ he has settled down to live a tranquil‚ ordinary‚ even mediocre life. Perhaps Archer never was special to begin with? Perhaps all those so-called conformists–even
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The American Revolution brought a plethora of changes to the new nation of the United States. While there were obvious shifts in political ideals during this transformative time‚ social changes had an equal impact on the birth of the new nation. Transcendentalism was one such social and progressive movement in nineteenth century America that centered around reality existing not merely on a physical level‚ but on a higher‚ spiritual one as well. In order to achieve this understanding‚ one must seek
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forever be grateful to Don‚ so much so that I now call him dad. This exposure to all kinds of people different than myself has only grown as I have gotten older. This diversity that I have been exposed to all of my life has turned me into a nonconformist who goes against the grain. Examples include: going to community college‚ not pledging frat which socially is very big here‚ and lastly‚ my roommates are of Gujarati‚ tamilian‚ and Korean descent. I also traveled to Cartagena‚ Columbia when I was
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced novels in the United States. Hawthorne was born July 4‚ 1804 in Salem Massachusetts. An early ancestor of Hawthorne‚ William Hathorne‚ emigrated to Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1630 and took on the reputation of being a harsh judge during the Salem Witch Trials in the 1690s. Hawthorne‚ wanting to distance himself from the puritan legacy on his father’s side‚ added a “w” to his last name. Wanting to further remove his family
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In 1836‚ a small group of New Britain authors and erudite people based an abstract and philosophical feeling expected as American Transcendentalism. The blend rejected sorted out henotheism; they believe one ought to build up a hypostatic‚ instinctive association with god and nature. By considering quality‚ one could rise above the remedial humankind and joined with the ’Over-Soul‚’ the precise soul of the framework. Alongside Emerson‚ introspective philosophy impacted the work of writers Henry
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Augustine of Hippo‚ who lived from 354-430 A.D.‚ was both a nonconformist and saint—one following the other. Growing up in the late Roman Empire‚ Augustine wrestled with evil in both its intellectual and experiential He sinned throughout his life and made it his mission to find the source for the problem of evil. Augustine was able to support the core of his argument by analyzing Genesis 3‚ which holds the Fall of Man. By understanding the power of evil in his own life‚ and the power of evil in
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To what extent do you think that The Fly can be read as a metaphor for the cultural fears and anxieties surrounding HIV/AIDS in American in the 1980s American society in the 1980s was traumatized with fear and anxiety over a new disease called AIDS‚ initially emerging among non conventional social groups – mainly gay men‚ though eventually spreading to the ‘ordinary’ population. While the government remained silent‚ the media frantically reported of previously vigorous and healthy people reduced
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