Henry David Thoreau once said‚ "In the long run‚ men hit only that they aim at‚ therefore they had better aim at something high." I agree with Thoreau completely. When you have goals in life‚ you’re going to do anything and everything to accomplish those goals. Therefore why not set higher goals that you will endeavor just with diminutive amount of more effort? One semester of English has gone by and there’s another semester to go. Even though I have done fairly well in English the first semester
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moderation‚ they can be made wrong if followed to the extreme. I believe that while Thoreau was a great writer with great ideas‚ a lot of what he believed was a little too over the top. Americans‚ by inalienable right‚ have the freedom to speak their opinions without fear of persecution. It is this amendment that has led the country through some of its greatest movements and has supported its best causes. Henry Thoreau was very fond of the freedom of speech‚ and made this quite clear by his many essays
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Cited: So Much Happiness-Nye‚ N. (1998). Retrieved from Poetry Packet Thoreau‚ H. Retrieved from http://quotesandimages.com/post/3787319201/happiness-is-like-a-butterfly-the-more-you-chase-it
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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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Anti-Slave and Reform Papers‚” have different title but all of them have the same concept. Henry David Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience started at the Mexican-American war. He refused to pay taxes because he knows the taxes are going to the war and slavery. His action resulted being put in jail. In his focus of his beliefs in slavery and the war‚ he wrote an essay known as “Civil Disobedience.” According to Thoreau‚ the main idea of civil disobedience is about “unjust laws exist” (203). His essay
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Naomi Helferich Professor Stryz WRAC 150 2 October 2013 Relationships Healed by Writing What is a relationship? It could be classified as an intimate relationship‚ a sisterhood‚ brotherhood‚ friends from school‚ etc. But all in all a relationship is the way you interact with people in your life. Relationships are generally perceived to be something positive in one’s life; but no matter what; all relationships have problems. People argue‚ and naturally come into conflict with one another.
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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals”- Henry David Thoreau. Making and achieving goals is so important in one’s life‚ because once you have achieve them it makes you a better person. Achieving goals make you feel confidence in yourself‚ and it gives you the sense of accomplishment. Like the quote says it’s not about what you get from achieving your goals it’s about what you become by achieving your goals. I was always a person who
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One can see the influence of Emerson in the writings of Walt Whitman‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‚ James Russell Lowell‚ Margaret Fuller‚ and countless others (“Ralph Waldo Emerson”). These authors idolized Emerson and viewed him as the leading force in the advancement and transformation of American literature.
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1830s to the 1880s‚ transcendentalism is usually considered the principal expression of romanticism in America. Many prominent ministers‚ reformers‚ and writers of the era were associated with it‚ including Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)‚ Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)‚ Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)‚ Theodore Parker (1810–1860)‚ Bronson Alcott (1799–1888)‚ and Orestes Brownson (1803–1876). Various organizations and periodicals gave the movement shape. The earliest was the so-called "Transcendental
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Morning Walk: Morning Walk: During childhood‚ every day my mother woke me up saying‚ ’Rise and shine. The early bird gets the worm.’ I didn’t know then what she meant by these words. She wanted me to be an early riser‚ as she believed that early risers have more time to achieve their goals. Today I understand the meaning of these words‚ and I value the lesson that I learned. If you are an early riser‚ you would know how blissful mornings can be. At dawn‚ the first rays of the sun gently caress
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