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    Degree and specialization: Master of Science in Nursing Specializing in Leadership and Management Personal/Professional Goals My life’s experiences over the past several years have made me wiser. To be a more successful and productive individual‚ I find it necessary to further my education by obtaining a Master’s Degree in the Science of Nursing. I also find it necessary to help build upon my career accomplishments. Now I am more grounded to realize and achieve this goal. Currently

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    Herbert Mugumya - Professional Goal Statement Walden University Ph.D. in Human Services‚ specialization; Human Services Administration My primary goal in applying to Walden University for Ph.D. program is to prepare myself for a future career in forensic human services administration. Interested in furthering the current body of research and in improving techniques used on the study of the theoretical foundations of organizational behavior and the practice of management and planning. I am very

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    fits the ideals of Walden‚ Self Reliance‚ and Civil Disobedience. One of the big ideas of Walden is that a person needs to separate himself from society to inner peace. Thoreau writes “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately‚ to front only the essential facts of life.” Chris McCandless fits this idea because he goes into the woods to find inner peace after college along with other adventures in the desert and Denali National Park. Another big idea of Walden is a person only

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    Furthermore‚ while David Thoreau wrote his last form of literature‚ walking‚ he was diagnosed with the bed-written disease‚ tuberculosis. Walking was the last writing Thoreau wrote in his life when he lived in the cabin he build by himself at Walden Pond (Hallowell & Levy‚ 2005). In walking‚ Thoreau intended to advocate naturalism and preserve nature by Walking‚ thus‚ the people who are interested in nature are his intended audience.  In Thoreau’s writing‚ he described how he feels when he walks

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    called Affluenza. The book presents the same idea of materialism in the form of shopping as a fever‚ and chronic congestion as hoarding items. Affluenza uses metaphors based on diseases to showcase individual’s obsessions with material gain. Thoreau in Walden‚ or Life in the Woods chapter 1‚ Economy talked about his experience of being in a cabin for two years and 2 months. He wrought about this detachment from the everyday life as a means to encourage the reader to reassess their lives. Seeing the replica

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    give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance‚ an obsequious attendance‚ but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices." - Henry David Thoreau‚ Walden‚ or Life In The Woods Truth vs. Fortune In Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book Into The Wild the main character is Chris McCandless a young man who is extremely smart and who seems to have everything going great in

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    vital to having a successful and fulfilling life. In fact‚ Thoreau lived on Emerson’s property when he began constructing his popular book “Walden”. The two of them were close and shared the same theme that focused on nature and individualism. However‚ this is not the only thing that the two writers have in common. In Emerson’s “Nature” and in Thoreau’s “Walden” you can see that both writers personify the environment around them and use it to depict the same final concept: that nature is their teacher

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    thought he would be fine with what he had. The difference between Thoreau and Chris is that Thoreau “went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately (Walden).” He wanted to‚ “live deep and suck out all the marrow of life (Walden).”

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    support and leadership to a number of social reforms that would not have been able to occur without the ideals of Emerson. Looking at Emerson’s’ Nature‚ Self-Reliance‚ and other works along with his most recognized follower Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; there are many similarities in their context that apply to life today. One of the main ideals in the literary contributions of the Transcendentalist authors of the 1830-1880’s was the idea that man is not governed by the predisposition of the Calvinist

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    there were issues of workers ’ rights‚ womens ’ rights‚ the position of minorities and so forth. The more innocent times that had allowed Henry David Thoreau to indulge in an idyllic communion with a more natural existence on the shores of Walden Pond and had also allowed (failed) attempts at utopian communal living such as at Brook Farm and Fruitlands were seen as becoming a thing of the past. People now demanded a social "Realism" in artistic and literary movements. Romantic literary forms

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