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Society expects us to do our daily lives, someone is different than the others. Chris McCandless, in full Christopher Johnson McCandless, by name Alex Supertramp. He was born on February 12, 1968, in El Segundo, California. He was found dead on September 6, 1992, on...
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The author, Krakauer, introduces each chapter with a quote because it gives the reader an understanding of what Chris McCandless read and how he interpreted it. The quotes were all Chris’s favorite authors and they probably impacted the way Chris thought. The quotes makes the...
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Henry David Thoreau was a famous American transcendentalist who turned to the environment for inspiration. Thoreau built a cabin at Walden Pond and lived there alone for a little over two years before he published his book, Walden, which was about his time spent living...
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Individual progress is galvanized by one’s mentality which cultivates authenticity and rejects imitation. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance, Transcendentalist principles are a recurring matter which yearn towards individuality within oneself and exhibit the adoption of foreign principles as a lack of possession and loss of...
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Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, and Self-Reliance and The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson can relate to each other about the authors’ thoughts on transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is the connection between people and nature. These writers believe that the universe and the individual soul have...
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19th Century American culture was largely focused on the creation of new societies, in which individuals could live according to their own beliefs. Puritan ideas played a large role in shaping this American culture, including the growing philosophical movement of Transcendentalism. Transcendentalists went against the...
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Transcendentalism, as described by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is searching for one’s own way to connect with oneself and finding peace from within. Discoveries such as necessities, desires, and nature reflect one’s findings. The only way to not conform to another through Transcendentalism is by designing...
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At this moment, 2022 of 21st century, transcendentalism is widespread in many aspects of life involving society, education, politics, religion, literature, and philosophy as well as social reform and efforts of American culture. What is this movement called Transcendentalism? This movement is a contribution towards...
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Transcendentalism is a philosophical and social movement that was developed by different philosophers and first applied in New England. Transcendentalism is opposed and can be described as the direct opposite of rationalism. Individualism on the other hand is the ability to acquire freedom over self...
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“Wide Open Spaces” by the Dixie Chicks is a clear example of a song with Transcendental lyrics. It is about a girl leaving home to achieve her goals in life, an example of the American dream. “A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone”...