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    Self-Assessment Jestin Ledlum Walden University Personal SWOT Analysis Identifying Your “Why” Per scholars and business professionals‚ pursing a higher education is important to business and professional development of an individual’s lifelong goals. Thus‚ the reason for pursuing a doctoral degree is it will help me advance society’s efforts in the field. The degree will allow me to research questions that can resolve complicated issues in the field of study. Furthermore‚ Walden University’s ranking in

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    In this section of the novel Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain satirizes the idea of romanticism. “She was very deep and I see in a minute there warn’t much chance for anybody being alive in her.” (pg. 91) When Huck see the boat sinking in the in the river. Twain satirizes the romanticism by showing his death. He claims that when people get on this boat their dreams or fantasies die on with it. Taking them from reality which is a major idea in this book. This compares to the end as well because it was

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    one’s happiness. Life can have over a million meanings this way‚ but happiness is the key to your personal answer. By choosing the path that you want to take a walk down in life‚ you you’re choosing the one that will make you happy. For instance‚ Thoreau had a lifestyle lived relatively in the forest. It’s what made him happy. Through this‚ he enjoyed living since he had went down the path that he chose causing him to live the life he imagined. "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty;

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    Lived‚ And what I Live For”‚ Henry David Thoreau writes about his experience moving and living in woods at Walden Pond. He describes how he would cut things he would do in his daily life down to proportion; for instance‚ instead of eating three times a day‚ just once. Through this experience‚ Thoreau is able convey his values and how he sees life. He introduces values such as naturalism‚ individualism‚ and self-sufficiency. Thoreau claims he moves to Walden because he "wished to live deliberately

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    Mankind creates the idea of romanticism‚ which glorifies and justifies absurd practices and actions. On the other hand‚ Nature itself consists of the belief of more realistic and practical means‚ necessary in the survival in the wilderness‚ leading to individual accomplishing a certain task with a specific purpose. In the adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ the appearance of the Grangerford serves as an example of such corrupt romanticism. When Huckleberry Finn asks about the feud and murder between

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    Romanticism and "Young Goodman Brown" Romanticism was a literary movement that occurred in the late eighteenth century to the mid nineteenth century which shifted the focus of literature from puritan works‚ to works which revolved around imagination‚ the beauty of nature‚ the individual‚ and the value of emotion over intellect. The ideas of the movement were quite revolutionary as earlier literature was inhibited by the need to focus on society and the rational world it effected. Romanticism allowed

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    Difference Between Enlightenment and Romanticism Enlightenment and Romanticism are two aspects of literature in which the thinkers contributed according to their school of thought. Writers that contributed to romanticism are called as romantics. On the other hand‚ writers that contributed to enlightenment are called as enlightenment thinkers. Romantics gave more importance to intense emotion in their works. On the other hand‚ the enlightenment thinkers did not give that much importance to intense

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    Walt Whitman‚ a true representative of American literature‚ overcame the suffering of many of those in the outbreak of the Civil War. Poet and journalist‚ Whitman before and after the Civil War shows the impact of the romantic idealism which reached its pinnacle in the years to follow. Along with another famous poet who became known for his cynical viewpoint of human nature‚ Ambrose Bierce. Bierce shows his audience the realist violence brought about by the Civil War. These two literary landmarks

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    The 18th century was the age of Enlightenment‚ of a belief in reason‚ tradition‚ society and science. But then‚ out of the smoke of the Industrial revolution and the French revolution emerged a new style of writing characterized by emotion over reason. In this Romantic age‚ the individual was valued over society‚ imagination over logic‚ and the natural over the artificial. Nature was celebrated as a source of delight‚ an Image of love and a model of moral perfection. Romantics found inspiration

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    The Romantic period was featured by a market departure from the ideas of the literary period that continued it‚ which was scientific and rational in nature. Romantic poetry was created to express a new relationship to the imagination. This kind of poet was always finding a way to capture the moment they experienced. The speakers in most of the romantic poems of the time are indistinguishable from the authors themselves. This is something Shelley embraces and displays. For example‚ the moment Mary

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