Ralph Fiennes

When Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, he noted that a species’ traits changed when they inhabited different environments. Similar to Darwin’s ideas, American values varied in accordance to one’s circumstances. In the early 1630s, a religious group known as the Puritans fled from England to escape persecution. Their leader, John Winthrop, delivered a sermon known as “A Model of Christian Charity” upon the arrival of their new home, America. It listed out future actions the…

Transcendentalism in the Modern World Transcendentalism is a philosophical and spiritually movement that protest against the general state and the intellectualism. Ralph Waldo Emerson an essayist, lecturer, and poet led the transcendentalist movement of the mid nineteenth-century. He wrote dozens of published essays. Emerson was one of the few people who believed and led transcendentalism. Henry David Thoreau an author, poet , philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development…

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great believer in the idealistic movement called transcendentalism. In many of his literature works, Emerson includes transcendental thoughts, such as in one of his essays from a collection of essays, Self-Reliance. In that essay, Emerson emphasizes the importance of individualism when he said not to “seek for things outside of yourself” which means that each person should trust themselves and their intuition and to not go searching in other people for that (Emerson 19)…

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet and essayist renowned for his rational probes of individual. He is considered to be one of the prominent writer and thinker of the U.S. in 19th century. Emerson was born on 25 May 1803 in Boston Massachusetts. He…

The Pursuit of Perfection dealt with religious and moral reform movements in the 19th century in America. One response of the massive changes brought about by the ships was to industrialize market economy to create utopian communities. This was made for people so they could separate there selfs from the worst aspects of the bold new world. During the Antebellum Revival & Reform the Americans intellectuals, artist, writers, and reformers created a national culture committed to the liberation of…

infection. John Jr. died of tetanus on January 11, 1842, in Henry’s arms. Henry was torn apart by his brother’s death, and out of devastation, he closed their school down. Henry David Thoreau returned to the pencil factory to work but was invited by Ralph Waldo Emerson a place to live. Henry had first met Emerson when he attended Harvard University. Emerson was giving a lecture, as he had a book that had recently been published, Nature. He introduced Transcendentalism to Thoreau, which utterly…

Individuality is a very general idea about a certain lifestyle. While it can be perceived in many different ways, both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Washington Irving accurately describe it through different viewpoints in their works, titled “Self Reliance,” and “Rip Van Winkle,” respectively. This concept applies to all human lives, as everyone has internal debates on whether they are on the side of blending into society, and therefore not contributing to it, or pulling themselves out of society too…

“For these the old usages of poets afford Walt Whitman no means sufficiently fit and free, and he rejects the old usages. The style of the bard that is waited for is to be transcendent and new,” (Fitzgerald). Throughout history, Walt Whitman has been documented to have a unique style that had never been approached before. Whitman is believed to be a very radical figure of his time period, by never writing the way that previously had been traditional. Whitman began early in his life as a…

Taking long walks through a nature park is a well-known activity to find peace, quiet, and enjoy the unique beauty of the outdoors. People walk along man-made paths that wind through various sections of the park, and sometimes even explore off the beaten path. At Penn State, students typically explore the Arboretum, a large nature park, in order to separate themselves from the hectic, everyday life of a college student. Students have heavy loads of coursework that can be overwhelming and raise…

In Plato’s Apology and Emerson’s Self-Reliance, they both talk about the idea of becoming an independent thinker. Emerson claims that people should break away from the conventionality of society, and become independent people who trust themselves to get their power. In the Apology, Socrates claims that he would not have changed anything about the way he lived his life because he relied on himself and his daimon for his knowledge and understanding of the world. While I agree with Plato and…