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    Tracy Tameleo Susan Reilly 19th Century American Literature December 12‚ 2008 The nineteenth century gave readers a plethora of literary genius. Perhaps the most recognized literary movement was Transcendentalism. This literary concept was based on a group of new ideas in religion‚ culture‚ and philosophy. Transcendentalism paved the way for many subgenres‚ it’s most significantly opposite; however was the emergence of Dark Romanticism. The Romantics had a tendency to value emotion and

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    Massachusetts and Virginia Colonies Massachusetts and Virginia were two of the early colonies in the new world. Although these two colonies originated from the same place they are very different. Virginia needed slaves for labor while the citizens of Massachusetts worked in production and had less slaves or indentured servants. Virginia traded cash crops such as tobacco and the colonists in Massachusetts build ships and traded fur among other things. While Massachusetts and Virginia were both

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    Jamestown and Massachusetts colonized those different areas to establish a colony in the New World and look for resources to in return to England’s investments. However‚ Jamestown and Massachusetts both had more early problems than successes in their colonies. One major problem was both colonies faced harsh weather conditions. Along with limited natural resources. Also‚ they had problems with people coming from England to try to take control of the colonies. One major example that both Massachusetts and Jamestown

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    of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was simultaneously theocratic‚ democratic‚ oligarchic‚ and authoritarian in different ways. The Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 and wanted a well-established government‚ but they ended up mixing all of these together. This colony was important because it was one of the first provincial and true governments to be introduced into the colonies. It also provided an example to other colonies to base their governments on. The Massachusetts Bay Colony

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    His speeches also later inspired Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Amos Bronson Alcott‚ the founder of the Concord School of Philosophy and the father of writer‚ Louisa Alcott who wrote Little Women. Frederic Henry Hedge‚ the founder of the Transcendentalist Club. Ralph Emerson was known as the father of the philosophical movement. He was also the writer of Self-Reliance

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    wrote this essay to inspire people to make a theological‚ characteristic‚ and emotional change in their everyday lifestyle that would be genuine and not that of a neighbor. Emerson led by example by leaving the fast pace Boston and moving to rural Concord where he built a small cabin by Walden pond where he lived in solitude searching for his own answers to his own questions in solitude. This later inspired his prodigy Henry David Thoreau to do the same and write a book called Walden. There are

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    else. People will go through all sorts of difficulties and obstacles to make it in life. Striving for wealth and power is something that brings both positive and negative results. During the colonial period the development of the Virginia and Massachusetts colonies was greatly influenced by the effects of the search for riches and power. Each area had common basic interests‚ but the ways in which they went about attaining these goals were in most views different. Prosperity was the major goal of

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    5/22/2014 New England Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ American Romanticism‚ American Renaissance New England‚ What is Transcendentalism?‚ Transcendental Club Home > New England Transcendentalism Index > Background Summary Site Map | Slide Shows | Guest Book | Links | About Us | Download Wisdoms | New England Transcendentalism Backdrop to Events During "The First Great Awakening" (1730 - 1770) a large proportion of colonial Americans

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    Ms. Clark U.S. History 1 H 23 April 2013 Man’s Relationship with Nature Transcendentalism is a literary and philosophical movement of the early 1800’s. Transcendentalists operated with a sense that a new era was coming‚ they were critics of their modern society for its thoughtless traditionalism‚ and they advised people to find “an original relation to the universe” (Emerson). “The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle‚ in the perpetual

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    Sarah Seward Clark English October 10‚ 2008 Big English Paper The book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a popular book about a boy who feels isolated from the world and refuses to conform to the world. The poem Sic Vita by Henry Waldo Thoreau is about a man who does not fit into the world in which he lives. The two literary works are very similar because the themes of isolation and nonconformity are very present in the main characters lives’‚ the authors’ lives and the literary

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