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    exact same activities but the people that surround you really changes the entire experience. As we say nowadays “its not where you are but who you are with”. I was able to have both; go on an amazing trip around the West coast and experience it with great

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    Summary: The Awakening

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    Eizen calls for her many times but it’s fruitless and she never comes. He goes out looking for her in a frenzy. Edna’s tiny and could be anywhere‚ but he also knows her. Knows Edna has hiding places she favors over all else. So he searches those caverns and meadows to no avail. Then rounds near the lake and the top of the mountain. He goes everywhere and can’t find her. Eizen feels like screaming by the end of it because Edna is missing and he knows the mountain is dangerous. There are scattered

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    Drama Essay: A Review of “Spring Awakening” I will be reviewing the play titled‚ “Spring Awakening” by Fred Wedekind. This play was produced by The Department of Performing Arts and Humanities of the School of Liberal Arts at and directed by Robert W. Oppel. I saw the play on March 20th Q Building Theatre. The play was excellent and exceeded all expectations due to the professional way the story was presented. “Spring Awakening” is a musical concerning teenagers who explore their individual

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    Transcendentalism in Modern Day Popular Culture Characteristic of Transcendentalism Quote or example Description Explanation/Analysis Free Thought “Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed Carry on‚ give me hope‚ give me strength Come with me and I won’t steer you wrong Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog To the light at the end of the tunnel We gonna fight‚ we gonna charge‚ we gonna stomp‚ we gonna march Through

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    Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that focused on discovering the truth about life and man through nature. Therefore‚ transcendentalists pondered the answer to a life worth living. Henry David Thoreau attempts to answer this question in Walden by the following quote: “Simplify‚ simplify. Instead of three meals a day‚ if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes‚ five; and reduce other things in proportion”. His statement emphasizes the idea that “our life is frittered

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    contains exists. Consequently‚ the existence of the consciousness as the sole basis of reality eliminates the need for an outer world not dependent on the human senses. Fichte believed that reality can only be known though human senses‚ making the second world that Kant introduced‚ the one independent of the senses‚ null and

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    The journey in answering how one can acquire knowledge and define reality on a philosophical and insightful level has not been an easy one. Descartes being the father of modern philosophy tried to answer this question by introducing representationalism. The empiricists‚ however‚ came along and dismantled Descartes’ theory. Hume‚ an empiricist‚ went further and concluded that philosophy asked non-sensical questions via his skepticism. It was not until Immanuel Kant‚ with his work on transcendental

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    understand that‚ “[a] victim mind-set causes people to focus on what they cannot do instead of what they can do. It is a recipe for continued failure” (Maxwell). Tess Durbeyfield‚ in Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy‚ and Edna Pontellier‚ in The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ develop a victim mind-set and shape themselves around inadequate men more deeply than Dominique Francon‚ in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Tess Durbeyfield becomes a victim of the inadequate men surrounding her: John Durbeyfield‚

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    The Awakening: Public Controversy The Awakening‚ written by Kate Chopin‚ was a book that was truly ahead of its time. The author of the book was truly a genius in her right‚ but yet she was seen as a scoundrel. At the time‚ it was "a world that values only her performance as a mother‚ whose highest expectations for women are self sacrifice and self-effacement." ( ? ) The people of that era were not ready to admit or accept the simple but hidden feelings of intimacy or sexuality and the true nature

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    Later‚ he stands on his desk to illustrate how “we must constantly look at things in a different way” (Keating). Both of these actions surprise the boys because no other teacher at Welton approves of teaching these concepts that align with Transcendentalism‚ a belief that society corrupts an individual’s purity. Quoting a famous founder of the movement‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ he says‚ “‘Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ Don’t be

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