Self-Exploration o Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Emerson wrote many journals and essays dealing with the subject of transcendentalism. One of his most famous works is the essay "Self-Reliance."" ... Another quote from his popular essay, "Self-Reliance,"" supports this. ... Emerson is obviously the father of transcendentalism, and his great ideas were conveyed in his brilliant essays, journals, and poems. ... I became confused about bad faith when I began to consider the individual who fully takes the responsibility of being a free-minded, choice making individual. ...

• Word Count: 1895
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Self-Exploration o Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Emerson wrote many journals and essays dealing with the subject of transcendentalism. One of his most famous works is the essay "Self-Reliance."" ... Another quote from his popular essay, "Self-Reliance,"" supports this. ... Emerson is obviously the father of transcendentalism, and his great ideas were conveyed in his brilliant essays, journals, and poems. ... I became confused about bad faith when I began to consider the individual who fully takes the responsibility of being a free-minded, choice making individual. ...

• Word Count: 1895
• Approx Pages: 8

Finally, Walt Whitman, who wrote in free verse about topics that no one else was writing about, believed in equality and pushed for democracy and individualism. ... First published in 1841 in Essays, Emerson's "Self-Reliance" is a radical piece of literature which showcases his views about the individual in society. In this essay, Emerson expresses "a central doctrine: divinity [existing] intimately in each natural fact, [and] in each individual self" (Ruland 120). ... This essay is commonly referred to as "Civil Disobedience" because of a reprint in 1866 (Ba...

• Word Count: 1963
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is a essay about those men and what they contributed to the movement, and exploring the American Characteristics. ... Thoreau"'s descriptions and interpretations of nature enriched all of his work; even his essays and lectures on political issues. ... In the book Walden, Thoreau showcases his simple way of life in order to free himself from the self-imposed social and financial constraints. ... His most famous essay is "Civil Disobedience," published in 1849. He wrote the essay while he was still living on Emerson"'s property at Walden Pond. ...

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The first important task, before continuing this essay, is to define justice. ... At the end of his essay, Thoreau describes a utopian State, in which people are able to live independently of the government. ... Individualism is the belief in the primary importance of the individual and in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence Thoreau clearly emphasizes the importance of the individual in the last paragraph of his essay: "There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all ...

• Word Count: 1577
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• Grade Level: High School

He may be the physically freest in the novel, but being so free in one capacity could create some major shortcomings in others. ... Upon returning to town, however, it became apparent that Huck was not as free as originally perceived. ... Huck is free to set and execute his own agenda without having to answer to anyone, but he does not. ... Arpaly offers a contrasting viewpoint to Bennett's in her essay "Moral Worth" where she essentially argues that emotion -not intellect- is the driving force behind moral reasoning and, to a further extent, individual freedom. ... It is iro...

• Word Count: 1467
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• Grade Level: High School

In Fuller's essay "The Great Lawsuit" which she later expanded into Woman in the Nineteenth Century, she produces her insurrectionary thoughts and ideas about the inequality of women. ... Fuller had the grand scheme that these conversations "could help aspiring women to free themselves from their traditional subservience" (Wade 69). ... Throughout Fuller's powerful and controversial essay, she constantly reinforces the belief that in order for change to occur, woman must look within herself for strength, wisdom and courage. ...

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Vince Tarkanian English 1A Poet Research Essay July 8, 2014 Analysis of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience", "Walden", and "Walking" Henry David Thoreau said of himself "I am a Schoolmaster – a Private Tutor, a Surveyor – a Gardener, a Farmer – a Painter, I mean a House Painter, a Carpenter, a Mason, a Day-Laborer, a Pencil-Maker, a Glass-paper Maker, a Writer, and sometimes a Poetaster (The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau 186). ... Thoreau's profession as a writer started in June 1840, when in a new journal called The Dial, the...

• Word Count: 2159
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The young poet's earliest work attracted the attention of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Free Press newspaper in Newburyport, Massachusetts, who asked him to contribute articles. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes- Initially known in the Boston area for his cultured, witty verse, the American physician and writer gained wider popularity with the publication of his essays in 1858. ... Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) - American poet and biographer, known for his unrhymed free verse which uses precise and vivid images to portray the energy and brutality of American urban industrial ...

• Word Count: 1931
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• Grade Level: High School

Montaigne begins his essay on judging the true from the false asserting that it is only the simple minded who have "a readiness to believe and the readiness to be convinced- (74). ... His essays, therefore, were meant as a source of self-reflection, not necessarily to become an authority on subjects such as education of children. ... His Essays therefore are the ultimate culmination and end product of "knowing yourself,"" in written form. ... The Abbey at Theleme is based upon the importance of freedom of thought and free will. ...

• Word Count: 2020
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The citizens of the United States, having just broken free of the tyranny of Great Britain, flocked to these ideals and found in them a sense of comfort and validation. ... People are at their zenith when truly free from society and its vice. ... In his essay "Nature", Emerson describes in detail the relationship between nature and mankind. ...

• Word Count: 1786
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On his return to Brooklyn in the fall of 1848, he founded a "free soil" newspaper, the "Brooklyn Freeman". ... In his final essay written one year before his death in 1891, he sums up his struggles of thirty years to write Leaves of Grass. ...

• Word Count: 1529
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Self-reliance as a virtue Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages."" ... He says what he wants to, free of feeling the ridicule of society, and fearless of the intimidation of the spirits and Gods. ...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School