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    Brook Farm included farmland and a school. The main goal of Brook Farm was to strengthen the intellectuality of its residents while balancing labor, literacy, and leisure. They took on “a deeper commitment to socialist experimentation” (Robinson). Each member of the community had a specific job or skill that they would provide. If someone liked farm labor, they would do that. The Brook Farmers were allowed to switch jobs and often did to escape monotonous work. To keep everyone equal, pay for each job was the same, so a previous Harvard professor was given the same wage per day as a women working in the fields. Brook Farm prided itself greatly on its school. The Brook Farm School was one of the finest in all of the New England area. All of the professors at the school were straight out of Harvard or Radcliffe. The institute brought a lot of money into the commune, because of all the students attending it. The scholars were provided with a variety of lessons. Harvard even recommended the school to young students planning on attending Harvard (McEmrys). Creating an equal social environment provided less conflict and more emotional support for the Brook…

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    Field Work Complete, Analysis Begins. Well over two years ago, preparations for a project to identify a heroic but largely forgotten engagement outside the community of Lexington, Massachusetts began. During the preparation and daily methodical work both in the archives and in the field a partnership would be forged which would place Minute Man National Historical Park on the frontline of research for the 21st century. Park service archaeologists would join in the effort of park management,…

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    the perfect society and make it last. Holloway says “The ideal utopias have proved highly popular with mankind.” (17). Brook Farm was just one of the many places that was unsuccessful on constructing a utopian society. The utopian ideals have been a goal of ordinary people and leaders dating back to the 1800s. The original idea of a perfect society otherwise known as utopia began with Plato and his work The Republic. Plato describes his perfect society as a place where everyone is equal and…

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    A utopian society was imagined and implemented in the early 1840s in the woodland area of Massachusetts. This was the Brook Farm utopian experiment. This utopian farm was founded by George Ripley and his wife, Sophia Ripley in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, now present-day Boston. Brook Farm was set to be a place of idealism and cooperative communal living. The farm would fail after a series of misfortunes only five short years after its beginning in 1846. The constitution of Brook Farm showed…

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    Far from a simple rejection of American society, the creators of Brook Farm, chiefamong them George Ripley, a Unitarian minister from Boston, wanted to create an alternative to the capitalist state, to found a new "city on a hill." The life of the mind that the transcendentalists so valued was one of the most important components of life at Brook Farm. Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Dial editor Margaret Fuller all made regular visits. While the cultural life of Brook Farm…

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    societies such as New Harmony, Brook Farm and the Oneida Community eventually failed, as peoples optimistic view of human nature could not be met. New Harmony was founded in 1825 and was based on communism. They believed that everyone was equal and would do the same amount of work for the same reward. The community failed as people did not do their fair share of work as it is human nature for some people to be more motivated than others and for some to let others do the work for…

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    “The Beans Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks express the routine life of the poor couple satisfy life. The poem is about an old couple who is sitting at the table and starts eating dinner. Suddenly they start to look around them and start thinking about their life. An analysis of the routine and their satisfy life will help us understand the poem. The routine “The Bean Eaters” express the idea that when we are older, we are restricted to follow a typical routine. For example “and remembering,…

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    of their parents being all they have to share. Most of the former slaves moved to Arkansas to farm; these ex-slaves kept farming occupations until their retirement. Former slaves from Little Rock, Arkansas shared the same attitude towards work ethic; they were all willing to work hard. However, there were exceptions to these truths, some interviewees remember slavery clearly and told amazing stories of their escape. Many past slaves were born close to the end of the Civil War, so they did…

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    played a huge role in understanding why do humans behave and accomplish goals some that are very adventurous and against a human’s comfort zone. Literature reflects on human 's nature and pulls at their instinct to be adventurous and go against their comfort zone of a normal life to do something extraordinary. Two examples of pieces of literature that show off people that accept the call to adventure while other folks do not ,is the New York Times Article, “A Private Dance? Four Million Web…

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    Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Thomas Hardy were some of the main poets who shared their views on women’s oppression. In Dickinson’s” Much Madness is Divinest Sense” the people who go against the social normality are shunned or disapproved…

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