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Transcendentalist Lives Clash Why are they clashing? Don’t all the transcendentalists like each other? They do, but most have different ideas. Is this where sanity goes to just plain old crazy? Or is it just your heart telling you what to do? This is where Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau differ. While Emerson established the “transcendentalist ideas” (Transcendentalism An American Philosophy), Thoreau lived them word by word. Henry David Thoreau lived a very different life from…

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The tale of Odysseus is a great story of a man that went through many hardships trying to go home. Odysseus at some point did get home. So I will tell you the story of Odysseus. The man who gave anything to get home and to take his men home. Risked his life and went on a journey that took 20 years. 10 year in the Trojan war and 10 years after trying to go home. Odysseus was on his way home from Troy when a storm redirected him to an island with these plants. These plants were so good to some of…

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said, "Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not" (Hawthorne) In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses an assortment of emotions to express the importance of his main characters, he contributes with forcefulness as well as indigenous but also with optimism in a couple of his characters. The author uses nature in order to reflect changes and behaviors in the characters throughout the novel.…

graduation pictures we were actually permitted to climb the trees, it felt like a right of passage. The staff took pictures of us all lounging around in our dress clothes. Although it was a fun experience, I was looking forward to getting out of my bow tie and back into shorts and a t-shirt. This picture represents my entire class of 22 students, we have been together throughout middle school for three years. While not all of the kids were present all three years, this will…

"Welcome back to the States, folks. You will find your bags on the carousel G in the customs hall after passing through immigration. If you have connections, follow the signs to your next gate. We hope you have an enjoyable stay here in the Chicago area or wherever your final destination may be. Good evening and goodbye." The overhead speakers clicked off, Cora opened her sleepy eyelids and shifted in her seat. She pulled her hood, that had been covering her face, off of her head, releasing…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

the flare of a jagged flash of lightening I watched helplessly as a man was catapulted over the bow of the ship. “Man o'er board! Man o'er board,” someone screamed. I felt my heart grow faint within me. A rough cord was pushed onto my tightly gripped hand. Making a desperate snatch for it I saw the look in Will's face; wild-eyed and frenzied, there was not even a glimmer of hope. The rope said it all. Tie ourselves on and pray. Pray, I did; for help, for mercy, for my soul. Who can withstand…

“Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!” (The Wizard of Oz). The Wizard of Oz was one of the many great things to come out of the 1930s. Even through the great depression, humanity still evolved and brought new cultures and inventions throughout the 1930s. Although hard times plagued the people, that didn’t stop them from living their lives. The new inventions and rich culture defined this era. The sources of entertainment, fashion, and inventions kept people going in the rough times of the…

details” and “terrific little touches” (Masin C1) that will leave the reader wondering why they didn’t see it all coming. The most alluring feature of this book is Ms. Flynn’s innate ability to create such controversy for the reader and still manage to tie up every loose end. By the time the book is finished, the reader has experienced a colorful spectrum of emotions, yet is left with no remaining questions, the one’s that always drive us crazy at the end of a book or movie; “but wait, what…