I can use my phone to look up anything at the tip of my fingers. I totally agree with Thoreau’s own words from his excerpt. Also he uses a lot of good vocabulary. I also agree with a lot of their quotes that they use‚ but they are a little long. I use my phone about 3 hours a day which equals 21 hours in a week. I think that is a lot less than other people use. I need to get off of my phone just like Thoreau. When Thoreau uses the quote‚ “ the rails under the railroad are dead bodies”‚ I agree
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Being alone or lonely don’t sound like much fun. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be alone. Most people enjoy staying to themselves. Henry David Thoreau loved the solitude. A lot of people complained or wonder why he enjoyed being alone. Thoreau never cared what people thought about his actions. He thought being alone was a good thing. He moved to the woods to be isolated from people and study nature. Even though he loved being alone‚ didn’t mean he didn’t like people. It’s just that he was
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Henry James Thoreau was a famous writer who viewed civilization as too ordinary. He wanted to experience life outside of his daily routine‚ so he lived in a cabin in the woods for a while. Most people believed that Thoreau was right to disagree with the basics of society. Because of this‚ he was put on a pedestal that shouldn’t have been created for him. Thoreau wrote a story called Walden based on his time spent in the woods‚ away from civilization. I believe that some of the points he makes within
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There is a common desire in humans to gain absolute freedom and wildness in one’s lifetime. Obviously‚ there are many ways to acquire such characteristics‚ but we learn from the renowned author‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ that we can find these eminent privileges by “walking.” Thoreau wrote the essay “Walking” while he was restricted to bed‚ dying of tuberculosis. While suffering from his disease‚ he ironically emphasized the magnitude‚ importance‚ and privilege of spending four hours a day walking‚ becoming
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Culture Unit 2 The college board defines culture as one of the twelve themes in AP U.S. History. It also defines culture as‚ “Diverse individual and collective expressions through literature‚ art‚ philosophy‚ music‚ theater‚ and film throughout U.S. history. Popular culture and the dimensions of cultural conflict within American society.” During the post revolution and pre Civil war period America began to develop its own individual culture. It was no longer a colony
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Truths and roses have thorns about themThoreau is a very famous poet and philosopher. Thoreau was a man connected to nature and God. Thoreau was a very honest man; he believed that one could only get closer to God if he understood nature. In this quote truths and roses have thorns about them‚ Thoreau is referring to that roses are beautiful but have thorns just like truth. Truth can have roses‚ but in the end they are much more beautiful than lies. I myself am a person who usually tells the truth
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Out From Behind This Mask By: Walt Whitman • Synopsis In Whitman’s poem Out From Behind This Mask‚ the poem starts out by talking about the passion and excitement that to many‚ lies just out of reach. Whitman is trying to illustrate how this ecstasy is much closer than once thought‚ by comparing the barrier as a curtain or a mask. The wonders that lie beyond this mask range from “passionate teeming plays” to “the glaze of God’s serenest‚ purest sky.” To Whitman‚ the possibilities are endless
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Walt Whitman is one of the best known American poets. His poems promote the cause of freedom while simultaneously praising the dignity of the individual. His poems are usually about himself‚ yet in himself he sees the entire humanity and successfully communicates this to the reader‚ sometimes directly‚ sometimes indirectly. Walt Whitman was a part of the transcendental movement of Poets in America‚ which also included Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Whitman’s poem "Bivouac on a Mountain
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The Romantic period occurred after the Revolutionary War‚ where writers produced dozens of novels and stories‚ mostly with the characteristics consisting of imagination‚ individuality‚ the common man‚ nature‚ and the supernatural. After the war American writers were filled with optimism‚ being part of the melting pot in the United States‚ reflecting on ordinary people‚ respecting wilderness‚ and having faith in just about anything. In the Dr. Heidegger’s experiment Hawthorne used these characteristics
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“Young Mr. Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne was written in 1828 during the Romantic period of American Literature. The story focuses on Mr. Goodman Brown‚ the protagonist‚ and a spiritual journey he embarks on. On this journey Mr. Brown finds himself face to face with evil himself and is greatly effected by this experience for the rest of his life. At the end of the story‚ Hawthorne leaves his readers guessing whether Mr. Brown’s encounter was a dream or a very skewed reality. Nathaniel
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