The Romantic era contributed greatly to the development of a new American identity. ... During the Romantic era, the United States was very focused on expanding its boarders, as shown by many historical events of the period. ... Due to Romantic influences, this period saw a heavy emphasis on the beauty and importance of nature. This is displayed through many works of literature written in the Romantic era, especially Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. ... Overall, the Romantic period in America greatly contributed the development of a new American identity. ...

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Other institutional influences on American romanticism include the rise and professionalization of science, against which Romantic writers reacted. ... Aesthetically, the romantics were also in a state of revolt, primarily against the restraints of classicism and formalism. ... Significant American Romantic Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson Considered to be a founding writer and philosopher within the American romantic movement, Emerson is perhaps best known for his essays, from which emerge the grounding notions of Transcendentalism. ... Herman Melville: an author of romantic fiction as was Hawtho...

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Romantics believed that man, while certainly capable of evil, was inherently good natured, but that civilization as a whole was flawed and corrupt. ... The American frontier also influenced the Romantic Movement in the early 1800s as many looked to the west as an opportunity for growth and personal freedom that Europe lacked. ... The vast unknown of the American West appealed to the Romantic followers as they saw nature as a source of wisdom and inspiration for the soul. ... The Romantic Movement saw many authors become household names. Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe became...

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"The reader who takes up these volumes in expectation of finding an imaginary and romantic picture of things which never had an existence will probably lay them aside, disappointed. ... Yes, the romantic scenery, the overbearing descriptions of nature and the false promise of a new life in a new land are all products of authors like Cooper, and books like The Last of the Mohicans. ...

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For the last twenty years or so, the issue of sexual harassment has received considerable attention especially since the inception of the feminist movement and the glaring examples of the Impeachment of President Clinton, the Senate's confirmation hearings for Anita Hill's charges against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, among others, has heightened nearly everyone's interest in the topic (Mcafee1). Despite, widespread publicity about the perils of sexual harassment, surveys demonstrates that many businesses operating in the United States have yet to address the problem a...

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However, this view began to change toward the end of the eighteenth century, when the American and French revolutions' rhetoric emphasized the rights of individual man, when Rousseau began to speculate man's natural nobility in an uncivilized state and the romantic poets began to show appreciation of poetic imagination attuned to the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". ...

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