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    Henry David Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience”‚ in 1849‚ to explain his distrust for the government. He focuses greatly on how the government is actively working against the people. Thoreau also discusses all throughout his essay about how the ones who serve our country are not considered as important as the ones within the cabinet. In an excerpt from “Civil Disobedience”‚ Thoreau uses pathos to show how the government is corrupt by using strategic syntax‚ similes‚ and metaphors. In “Civil Disobedience”

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    1 Maddie Middlebrooks EN 209-016 November 6‚ 2013 Word Count 1278 To Think for Yourself Henry David Thoreau ’s‚ Walden‚ is a novel focused completely around the idea of self-reliance. In the novel‚ Thoreau goes even more in depth into this idea‚ focusing a passage on the specific idea of experiencing your life solely for yourself‚ not through the ideas or beliefs of anyone else. He states‚ "No way of thinking or doing‚ however ancient‚ can be trusted without proof"(1616). He fully believes

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    89)”. Thoreau illustrates in “Solitude” his experiment living in isolation at Walden Pond and the opportunity being alone provided for him to disconnect from society and rediscover himself. Thoreau explains that isolation isn’t necessarily negative‚ rather that isolation can be an actual source of freedom. Freedom comes from the appreciation of peacefulness in being alone‚ not feeling lonely‚ and opening the mind for self-reflection. The theme of isolation ties into the freedom Thoreau embraces

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    above the empirical…" (Transcendentalism). This new philosophy created a rebellion and turn away from the traditional religions in the United States. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are two primary authors and promoters of Transcendentalism. In this paper I will be focusing on Emerson ’s Nature and Thoreau ’s Walden‚ or Life in the Woods‚ from now on to be referred to as simply Walden‚ to show the rebellion against religion and the quest to know one ’s self through a different way. To

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    School: Elkmont Facilitator: Roop 3.03 Walden Reading Questions Answer the following questions in complete sentences (18 points). 1. Why did Thoreau go to Walden? He wanted to find the real meaning of life. 2. How did he want to live his life? Without care 3. In the first paragraph you read‚ Thoreau says‚ “I did not wish to live what was not life‚ living is so dear…” In what ways might society “live what [is] not life”? Most people worry about things. He don’t want

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    their communication with one another and their understanding of the world.[3] Henry David Thoreau had read "Nature" as a senior at Harvard College and took it to heart. It eventually became an essential influence for Thoreau’s later writings‚ including his seminal Walden. In fact‚ Thoreau wrote Walden while living in a self-built cabin on land that Emerson owned. Their longstanding acquaintance offered Thoreau great encouragement in pursuing his desire to be a published author.[4] Nature is an essay

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    In Henry David Thoreau’s “Where I Lived‚ and What I Lived For‚” (1854) the main thing Thoreau is trying to get across is simplicity‚ he is even goes as far as moving out to a rural area of Walden Pond for two years just to get away from the city and all the fast moving life. Thoreau uses three different rhetorical strategies to talk about life‚ his use of similes talks about a life with no purpose‚ he uses rhetorical questioning to make people think the way he does‚ and the use of repetition is to

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    While reading “Walden”‚ by Henry David Thoreau‚ you get a sense that he finds great comfort in nature; there was much symbolic‚ and spiritual meaning to be found in the wonders of the natural world‚ away from the strains of societal conformities‚ and consumerism. A main tenant of Transcendentalist writers was that independence‚ or self-reliance‚ was essential for man to attain their inherent greatness. For Thoreau‚ this independent‚ “Spartan-like” (Thoreau) lifestyle he observed during his time at

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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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    Essay One “Solitude” by Henry David Thoreau demonstrates the need for humanity to connect with nature. He also goes in-depth about what is means to be lonely and how one can be alone while being surrounded by others as well as how one can achieve to be not be lonely in isolation. Thoreau explores the surroundings of his home and Walden Pond while giving the reader a sense of bliss over the simplicities of nature for a spiritual experience. “The Call of the Wild” by Gary Snyder emphasizes on how

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