July 18‚ 2012 " Failure is absolute when you deny yourself the opportunity to succeed." Written in 2012 by Charles E. Callahan‚ Jr. July 16‚ 2012 " Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player‚ not the chess piece." Ralph Charell --- Submitted by George Wachirah July 16‚ 2012 " What you wish for! What you want for! What you really want for! What you are willing to pay the
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Gabrielle Rae V. Bueser HFH23 June 15‚ 2013 Reaction Paper: Spoliarium As we enter the hall of the National Museum of the Philippines‚ the prominence of "Spoliarium" an oil on poplar completed in 1884 by National Artist‚ Juan Luna‚ is remarkable. The super- sized painting depicts a dark hollow beneath the Roman arena referred to as the Spoliarium where the bodies of slain gladiators are being dragged away for disposal. This is the time in history when the Romans travelled to Europe and collected
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of valuable literary knowledge. Prose didn’t have a definition of true education‚ but she pointed out a major problem in the path of a better education. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the next author with strong views towards our flawed education system. He believes that a student should be free to make their own decisions for their education. Emerson also writes about the balance between “Genius and Drill”. Genius is when the student can develop their own ideas about things to grow their knowledge‚ and
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ENG4U February 28‚ 2014 Barriers to Success Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited for having said “do not go where the path may lead‚ go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” This means an individual who creates their own trail‚ will essentially produce their own success. However‚ success is not only a destination‚ success is also a rather difficult journey‚ littered with barriers and obstacles along the way. The obstacles encountered throughout the journey of success are major deterrents
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Chris Sander English1AH Prof. Cannon 30 April 2013 Civil Disobedience When should civil disobedience be justified? Civil disobedience is defined as the refusal to obey government laws‚ in an effort to bring upon a change in governmental policy or legislation. Civil disobedience is not an effort to dissolve the American government‚ because without government our society would result in chaos. Sometimes‚ when there is an unjust law and the government won’t take the initiative to fix it‚ the public
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GPA but also on your character and your dedication. I hope that you will be able to impact the world as you have impacted the St. John’s community and that you always continue to thrive and do the best that you can. Always remember that‚ as Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” Again‚ congratulations and good luck in the
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Henry David Thoreau INTRODUCTION Henry David Thoreau was an American author‚ poet‚ abolitionist‚ naturalist‚ tax resister‚ development critic‚ surveyor‚ historian ‚ philosopher andtranscendentalist. Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life. He is best known for his book Walden‚ a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings‚ and his essay‚ Civil Disobedience‚ an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral
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Enlightenment‚ transcendentalism‚ and puritan theology: 3 philosophies that shaped 3 centuries in America. Since the time periods of each philosophy overlapped with the others‚ all 3 had similarities as well as differences. From these philosophies came different writers with different views‚ shaping American prose. A major Enlightenment author was Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine wrote a piece called "The Age of Reason." In this piece he fully encompassed the ideologies of the Enlightenment. These included
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believed that the divine could be reached through nature‚ by any man. The hallmark work of the movement was Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature. The most famous section of the work is when Emerson recalls an experience he had in the woods‚ and says "I become a transparent eye-ball. . . . I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." (Cromphout 210) Emerson tapped into an experience of non-being‚ connecting on a purely spiritual level through nature‚ without
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In the movie Dead Poets Society‚ the literary philosophy of Transcendentalism is portrayed through the teachings of Mr. Keating‚ a transcendentalist‚ at Welton‚ a private school grounded on conformity and institution. The movie does not look at the school as a whole‚ but one can recognize the engagement concerning the transcendentalists and conformists in the movie when observing the fluctuations and activities taken by the group of boys who call themselves the Dead Poets Society. The Dead Poets
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