It is difficult to believe that today is my graduation on my second course. My family and friends are here‚ excited and cheering for me because I had made it. Taking up two courses at a time is not that easy. There where times over the last four years where I wanted to give up My last six months as a BSIT student‚ is the hardest part I think. Awake until 3 o’clock or 4 o’clock in the morning doing our IT project‚ then waking up at around 7 to attend my BSIM class at 8 am. That‚ sometimes we are
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Gabrielle Rae V. Bueser HFH23 June 15‚ 2013 Reaction Paper: Spoliarium As we enter the hall of the National Museum of the Philippines‚ the prominence of "Spoliarium" an oil on poplar completed in 1884 by National Artist‚ Juan Luna‚ is remarkable. The super- sized painting depicts a dark hollow beneath the Roman arena referred to as the Spoliarium where the bodies of slain gladiators are being dragged away for disposal. This is the time in history when the Romans travelled to Europe and collected
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In the movie Dead Poets Society‚ the literary philosophy of Transcendentalism is portrayed through the teachings of Mr. Keating‚ a transcendentalist‚ at Welton‚ a private school grounded on conformity and institution. The movie does not look at the school as a whole‚ but one can recognize the engagement concerning the transcendentalists and conformists in the movie when observing the fluctuations and activities taken by the group of boys who call themselves the Dead Poets Society. The Dead Poets
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in 1833 to 1837. He took courses in philosophy mathematics‚ and science. He wasn’t satisfied with the traditional professions for college graduates so he and his brother John taught school in Canton‚ Massachusetts. After he graduated he met Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2. He went into the woods because he wanted a place to write that he wouldn’t be bothered. He quotes “I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately‚ to front only the essential facts of life‚ and see if I could not learn what it
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"Self-Reliance" vs. Huckleberry Finn In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay "Self-Reliance‚" he defends the personality traits that every creative human being possesses and a person’s intellectual independence‚ which enables him to surpass the achievements of previous generations. Emerson explains how most of society is made up of conformists‚ people that simply conform to a past technique created by earlier innovators. Against being a conformist‚ Emerson chooses to support being a creator‚ or a person
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you learn to appreciate what you used to take for granted. INTRODUCTION I. Attention Getter: “For everything you have missed‚ you have gained something else‚ and for everything you gain‚ you lose something else.” A quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson II. Thesis Statement: Moving away from home can make you very independent‚ but it makes you learn to appreciate what you used to take for granted. III. Preview of Main Points: Moving away from home has changed me for the better. It has
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in literature. Emerson and Thoreau are the two people most associated with transcendentalism. They both wrote essays about their experiences in nature and influenced many other writers to do the same (hence the transcendentalist movement). The transcendentalist thought is especially apparent in Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson’s work. Whitman and Dickenson both show many traits of the movement‚ but the most apparent trait is individualism. Individualism is often portrayed in Emerson and Thoreau’s
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Walt Whitman‚ “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer‚” “I Hear America Singing‚” “Song of Myself” • Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ “The Birth-Mark‚” “The Minister’s Black Veil‚” “The Earth’s Holocaust” • Hiram Powers’ Eve Tempted and The Greek Slave • Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Nature‚ “Self-Reliance” • Henry David Thoreau‚ Walden and “Resistance to Civil Government” • Herman Melville‚ from “The Encantadas‚” “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener‚” “The Tartarus of Maids‚” Moby-Dick • Edgar Allan Poe‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart‚”
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detrimental. Intangible objects fall under the list of things that can be owned. Jean-Paul Sartre believed that “becoming proficient in some skill and knowing something thoroughly means that we ‘own’ it.” His beliefs are similar to those of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Emerson’s essay‚
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Mousetraps If a man [can] ... make a better mousetrap than his neighbor ... the world will make a beaten path to his door. As Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease America‚ contemplated the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson framed on the wall of her Costa Mesa‚ California office‚ she wondered whether Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap - Trap-Ease - but the world didn’t seem all that excited. IF YOU BUILD A BETTER MOUSETRAP‚ WILL IT SELL? The Trap-Ease is a clever
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