The number of high school graduates that do not attend college has been increasing since around 2009 according to The New York Times. That may seem shocking to most people. This is because it is not what the societal expectations are for high school graduates. Adolescents in the new generation are becoming more courageous in making their own decisions‚ even if it is not what society thinks is the “right” thing to do. They are stepping out of the social norms by portraying behaviors that are not considered
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the government. The author of “Civil Disobedience” is Henry David Thoreau. He was an American philosopher‚ poet‚ and environmental scientist. He exerted a profound‚ enduring influence on American thought and letters. His famous experiment in living close to nature‚ and his equally famous night in jail to protest an inhuman institution and an unjust war‚ are displayed in his best known works‚ Walden and "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau would be biased toward the meaning due to his radical views against
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facts alone‚ as pieces of literature are meant to be interpreted in order to be smarter people. Foster’s statement of how literature should give us a deeper life meaning is true‚ with stories such as "All Quiet on the Western Front"‚ and Thoreau’s "Walden"‚ presenting life lessons and ideas from aspects encountered in our lives.
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English 11AP: Language and Composition Thoreau‚ excerpt from Walden Questions on Rhetoric and Style 7. What paradox does Thoreau develop concerning the railroad in paragraph 2? 8. Paragraph 3 begins with a rhetorical question. How effectively does the rest of the paragraph answer it? 9. Discuss the meaning of the phrase “starved before we are hungry” in sentence 2 of paragraph 3. 10. Compare the probable rhetorical effect of paragraph 4 at the time it was written (1854—pre-Civil
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in intellectual independence and nonconformity. A true transcendentalist does not believe in any personal God‚ but believed that God was in all living things. The writers Emerson and Thoreau were very well known transcendentalists‚ and made their beliefs renowned in their works "Nature‚" "Self-Reliance‚" and "Walden." Transcendentalism can be broken down into three important characteristics. It can be described as a love for nature‚ a yearning and understanding for personal growth‚ and a value for
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subjectivity‚ and the primacy of the individual. Transcendentalist believed in self-reliance‚ individualism‚ and nature. They would’ve been considered the square pegs in the round hole. They shaped some of the nineteenth century. The wilderness for Thoreau and Krakauer was that they were free of evil spirts of modern society‚ they could live by their
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have set destinies and others believe we are set on a path that cannot be changed and every action we make just continues our path until it is complete. “Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track‚ then.” (Henry David Thoreau‚ Walden 7). We all have separate paths that will intertwine with each other’s and every intertwining path changes each other’s. Each person you interact with changes the way actions will take place in their lives. For every person I meet‚ I myself become
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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 and civil disobedience through short stories such as “Self Reliance” and “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”‚ and the play‚ The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. Transcendentalism is based on the belief that knowledge is derived from experience
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Although all human beings exist in one universe‚ each may live in their own separate worlds. This is exemplified in the comparison between the worlds of two famous transcendentalists‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau‚ and the contrary world of The Great Gatsby. Thoreau developed his own world by becoming a recluse and secluding himself from society. Emerson built his own world on firm beliefs of self-reliance and God. However‚ the world which exists in The Great Gatsby proves to be very
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Stacey Gaskin American Transcendentalism Peaceful Resistance: A Transcendental Response to Abolitionism The ideals of Transcendentalism lent themselves to be ripe with social change. Transcendentalists believed the soul transcended form‚ shape‚ and color and stressed that on the inside‚ human beings are not simply male and female or black and white. To the transcendentalist‚ the soul was an androgynous‚ colorless entity. They believed truth is beyond the realms of human senses‚ but that
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