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    References: Palenchar‚ D.R. (2005). Teratogen. Encyclopedia of Human Development. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Sage Reference Online: http//www.sage-ereference.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/human development/Article_n607.html. Sleigh‚ M. (2005). Fetus. Encyclopedia of Human Development. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Sage Reference Online: http://www.sage-ereference.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/humandevelopment/Article_n256.html.

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    Goal Statement Degree program: Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Trauma and Crisis Counseling Personal/Professional Goals My professional goal is to obtain Walden’s Master’s degree in mental health counseling with a specialization in trauma and crisis and become a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). I would especially like to work with soldiers who have been affected by frequent deployments and their families to help them overcome their personal and social

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    transcendentalist‚ and a practical philosopher. He began writing poems about nature around 1840‚ together with Ralph Waldo Emerson (as a mentor and a friend). In 1845 he began his “personal experiment” in two years in Walden Pond‚ (near Concord‚ Massachusetts) which he wrote his famous work‚ Walden‚ of the life in the woods. His goal was to explore and discover everything about human nature‚ so he observed different flora and fauna‚ numerous ponds‚ local farms and seasonal changes. Thoreau analyzed that in

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    Henry was his father‚ a sentiment he later repeats to his mother. Lydian suggests that Henry should get married‚ and he says nature is his chosen bride. Back in the jail cell‚ Bailey asks Henry to be his lawyer‚ but Henry refuses. The action shifts to Walden Woods‚ where Henry feeds an escaped slave‚ Henry Williams‚ on his way to Canada. The time shifts ahead‚ and Henry and Waldo argue about the fact that Waldo is not protesting the release of slaves like Williams‚ who has been shot. Henry accuses Waldo

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    What is transcendentalism? Mainly transcendentalism can be viewed in various ways. Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ the author of Self Reliance‚ explains transcendentalism in three major points. One point is you need to follow your own genius. Another point is the blessing of nonconformity and lastly the horrors of conformity. These points show transcendentalism as very detrimental because it is unexpected that people will be able to all be their own because society will never advance. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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    source for his published writings and lectures. He was a very motivated writer and habituary classics such as Greek‚ Latin and English texts. He also read sacred writing of the Hindus that was a big influence on cosmic vision in Walden. Thoreau starts to question authority in Walden. “Thoreau spent his night in local jail in a protest against the proslavery agenda of the war against Mexico; he refused to pay his poll tax. The experience would inspire resistance to civil government‚ at a later time this

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    People like Martin Luther King JR. have contributed so much to our society‚ and have caused a mass amount of change that has changed our world and society for the better. It wasn’t easy though‚ he had to rebel against everyone in his life and rebel against society and even his place in society. He did it though‚ and he howled about and criticized all the things that needed to change in order to make America the great place it was meant to be. He was a hero and a renegade‚ and he helped pave the way

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    ranscendentalist Essay “Live life to the fullest.” This quote by Ernest Hemingway was made after the era of transcendentalism‚ but I believe that the idea came from the transcendentalists. In Walden‚ by Henry David Thoreau‚ he writes “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life‚ to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life‚” Among Transcendentalists’ core beliefs was an ideal spiritual state that ’transcends’ the physical and empirical and is only realized

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    Regardless of what others believe‚ individualism retains the ideas of acquiring the need of oneself. Although the origin of these ideas of individualism would vary depending on the person‚ one major factor that contributes to the inspiration would be the environment of where one is currently at. Whether it is through a harsh climate or within a peaceful society‚ it’s what remains to continue in writing. The instance of where the ideas of individualism is dependent on the environment would be Richard

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