Concord

A particular attitude toward or a way of regarding something is known as perspective. When it comes to perspective on life most people have a group or code of beliefs they follow. During the mid-eighteenth to nineteenth century many brilliant minds came to surface as the faces of many different social movements. One of these brilliant minds was a man known as Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was an American essayist whose brilliant works are still popular among the people of today. In his time, his…

Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau The Transcendentalist movement developed in the end of the 1820s, gaining momentum throughout the 1830s through the literary efforts of Americans Emerson and Thoreau (Packer 11). The historical movement emerged from many men and women who were discontented with the limitations of traditional religion. Seeing religion’s many philosophic trappings which inhibited the growth of authentic character, these forerunners sought their inspiration through the…

Natural will explains to a person how to live under the guidelines given to each person at birth from nature. Every person person, no matter religion, race, ethnicity, is held to the same standards of living and being as stated in the Golden Rule. The Golden Rule states that you should treat others as you would want to be treated. Natural will and natural law are essentially that if you strip it down to the bare bones. In this essay, six characters will be explored through each of their…

The Battles of Lexington and Concord started the Revolutionary War. Even though the battles didn’t occur until 1775, tension between the colonies and the British Parliament started over 10 years prior after they decided to start imposing taxes. At the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, the British Parliament was in debt. The colonies were prospering, so they looked to them as a way to help generate income. They told the colonies that the increase in taxes were their way to pay for…

The beginning battles of the Revolution, such as the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge and the Battle of Lexington and Concord, were a key morale boost for the Patriots in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The Battle of Lexington and Concord occurred on April 19, 1775. However, before the Battle of Lexington and Concord came to be, representatives of the colonists gathered for the First Continental Congress in Massachusetts. As the meeting adjourned, the colonies decided to…

“Henry David Thoreau devoted his energies to exploring the spiritual relationship between humanity and nature and to living by his political and social beliefs.” As said by Sam Erickson. Thoreau was a transcendentalist and is known today as one of the “Big Three” in American Literature along with Walt Whitman and Ralph Emerson. Thoreau devoted his life to explore the importance of humanity and nature. For two years Thoreau lived in a cabin he built at Walden Pond. It was here where he wrote…

“The Speech of Polly Baker” by Benjamin Franklin is a leading example of how American writers challenged notions of social injustice and attempted to bring social change. Franklin writes this fictional story about a woman being convicted for giving birth to an illegitimate child and criticizes the laws that punish them. Polly Baker has been convicted of this same crime four times previously but each time, argues that she is not the only one responsible for this transgression. Women are…

Transcendentalism is described a person who finds satisfaction in solitude and nature. It was a nineteenth century movement in which mean people joined. In the book Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless is a transcendentalist, from the modern age, which means he enjoys the simplicity of life and deliberate living or living life with intentions. McCandless goes into the wild with the aspiration of finding himself through nature. In the eyes of a transcendentalist, they believe that…

Uprooting the Truth “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul,” said renowned Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson in his piece title Nature (qtd. in Perkins 591). The vitality of nature’s power is one of the fundamental pillars of Transcendentalism. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter mirrors this concept, nature playing a vital role in the novel from beginning to end. The influence of nature is a common theme throughout the novel. Specifically, the forest, flowers, and sunlight…

Existentialism in a broad sense, might be seen as a philosophy that is predominantly concerned with the analysis of existence, and the meaning of life through free will. However, the existentialism could be perceived as much more than philosophical movement, since much of its popularity in the 1950s, and 1960s, was achieved through the literary fictional works of Sartre’s, such as Nausea and No Exit. Among the major philosophers identified as existentialists were Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger,…