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    intellectual beauty. Hawthorne shows physical beauty in her by showing her beautiful attributes‚ while adding that flaws can make somebody even more perfect‚ as this shows nature’s effect on this person. Hawthorne also shows a great amount of faith and transcendentalism in Georgiana. He does this by showing Georgiana to love the mistakes and flaws of her husband‚ as she looks through all of the failures in Aylmer’s scientific books. It seems as

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    However‚ teens are not too digitally connected with the evidence from the beliefs of transcendentalism and the connection made through games. Transcendentalist have beliefs that can be brought into today’s society. Transcendentalism is based on the idea of creativity over logic. People should be able to have imagination instead of having to know the facts to be right. Teens all have a little transcendentalism

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    It was one of the most important traits of transcendentalism and was reiterated by Emerson‚ Thoreau‚ and Whitman alike. Thoreau believed that you were most intelligent as a young child because you had yet to be influenced by those around you. That was when your ideas were purest. He even believed it was

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    sound of all to him. This is when he shifts into his own personal feelings. He searches through everyday sounds just to reach that fulfillment. The speaker goes back to using “I hear” as an anaphora also giving this section a rapid pace. * Transcendentalism is connected since the speaker sees the spiritual joy in music which connects him to happiness. 4. Toward the end of 26‚ the tone switches from jubilant to confusion. The music he loves to listen to takes him back to a state of death and

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    Transcendentalism was the belief that human senses could only know physical reality. One of their major beliefs was to be original‚ and to not copy the way someone does something. They also have a strong belief that God‚ humans‚ and nature are all spiritually joined in what they call‚ an oversoul. They believed that if a human wanted to find themselves‚ they must explore nature. Transcendentalist believed the induvial should be original‚ have a strong connection with nature‚ and reach out to their

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    East. They encounter a teacher‚ Mr. Keating‚ whom is a little different than most teachers. He wanted to instill the motivation to look past what society was telling them to do rather than teach the normal curriculum. He used Thoreau’s ideas on transcendentalism by showing them to transcend or go beyond the rules that society poses and create their own independence. Mr. Keating succeeded in his efforts by teaching them to think for themselves. Director Peter Weir illustrates that the movie "Dead Poet’s

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    Ralph Emerson‚ author of “Self-Reliance”‚ regards a person’s growth normally as a process of abandoning one’s spirit of nonconformity or moral tendency . Society is considered to have a pessimistic effect on the growth of each individual’s soul‚ whereas confinement may contribute to it as well. Whichever the case may be‚ the individual is trapped either by bigotry‚ from power‚ or low self-esteem‚ from group-think. Senseless philanthropy‚ which encourages dependence on outside help‚ is thus also thought

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    2015 Transcendentalism In ​ Mulan The Disney movie‚ ​ Mulan​ ‚ takes place in Ancient China. A tomboy‚ named Mulan‚ decides to take her physically impaired father’s place in the Chinese army. To do so she has to disguise herself as a male and keep her true identity secret. At the climax of the movie‚ her true gender is discovered. In the end Mulan is tried and pardoned of her crimes‚ is given a sword of the enemies military leader‚ and is proposed to. Throughout the movie transcendentalism characteristics

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    When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1. Bio: Walt Whitman practically taught himself to read through the works of Homer‚ Shakespeare‚ Dante‚ and the Bible during his time as a printer’s apprentice in New York City. After a printing district fire in 1836‚ Whitman became a teacher‚ and then a journalist. In 1855‚ he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass‚ sending a copy to Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ famous transcendentalist. In 1865‚ the updated edition included Emerson’s letter

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    Transcendentalism‚ the ideal that individuality and intuition run one’s life‚ based on the ideas of the rejection of materialism and the quest for truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the center of the American transcendentalism‚ laying out the foundation for it that many others builded upon‚ such as Henry David Thoreau and Immanuel Kant. In Emerson’s work Nature‚ the fundamentals of a transcendentalist is set with “build therefore your own world”(74). Emerson believes that a true transcendentalist follows

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