Ralph H. Baer

One novel that has impacted my life greatly would have to be Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. This story is about a young miner who was in an airplane crash. The airplane landed in a lake in the forest. The boy had to learn how to survive on his own with nothing, but his hatchet. That special hatchet was a gift from his mother, which she gave him before his airplane departed. Throughout the summer, he learns how to survive in the part of the wilderness he had never seen before. Particularly, this book…

relentlessly. Shinji respects the feelings of others as he always takes their level of comfort into consideration. When Hatsue refuses to consummate an intimate relationship before marriage, “Shinji ha[s] a sort of haphazard respect for moral things. And…[h]e insist[s] no further” (Mishima 77). For the sake of Hatsue, he disregards his lack of satisfaction from the meeting and places his desires aside. By adhering to Hatsue, he complacently…

During the 1840s, Henry David Thoreau set off into the woods to live alone for the purpose of finding himself. He was very concerned about growing old without experiencing everything he could. Thoreau famously puts “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” (271). He found himself displeased with the way he was living and…

Walt Whitman is considered one of America's most influential poets. Many of his works celebrated democracy, nature, and love. Whitman’s work aimed to mirror the potential freedoms to be found in America through traditional epics. His love for America and its democracy can be attributed to his upbringing and his parents. During this time, the topic of change was uppermost in Whitman’s mind as the America of the 1850s drifted inexorably towards civil war. The America Walt Whitman lived in was…

Ralph (otherwise known as Waldo) Emerson was an American, poet, author, and transcendentalist. Born on the 25th of May, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was known as the “Sage of Concord” in literary circles, he became the chief spokesman for transcendentalism; American philosophic and literary movement. Emerson studied at Harvard and taught for a brief time before being appointed to minister (1826) and ordained to the Unitarian Church (1829). The same year as his ordainment, Emerson married…

American newspaper publisher, William Randolph Hearst, built the nation's largest newspaper chain. He was born in San Francisco, to millionaire mining engineer, goldmine owner and U.S. senator (from 1886–91) George Hearst and his wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Phoebe Apperson was the first woman advisor of University of California, Berkeley. She funded many anthropological expeditions and founded the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. William Randolph Hearst dominated journalism for…

A Close Reading Analysis of Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson convey the idea that individuals have become too dependance on society and have no mean of supporting themselves without society help. Within a society, a person has become too used to looking toward others for opinions instead of forming their own. Society has caused conformity among people, instead of bolstering individualism and this in-turn has cease the development of new ideas. They have…

The poet, Walt Whitman, the creator of “ Song Of Myself” from the book Leaves Of Grass, depicts the meaning of our life and our purpose of the universe as a beautiful life cycle of death and rebirth anew. Whitman conveys that “for for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,/… every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air.”.,Whitman believes that the individual makes us unique in our own way while sharing common ground with others. This conveys that in Whitman’s poem we…

Man’s greatest invention: the wheel, Man’s worst invention: homework (especially on the weekends) The constraint from which reasoning entrapped differences to the freestyle hippie ideal of living now. Puritans soul search, self scrutiny, self-disciplined and moderate themselves for they praised the light of god. Deists rule to acknowledge what's there while opening the gate to individuality, staying curious but witty. To transcendentalists completely individualistic, self reliant, live in the…

Nathaniel Hawthrone was and still is a well-known and commendable American novelist. Despite Nathaniel Hawthorne’s many favorable works, there are three classic American novels produced by Hawthorne that critics and readers found honorable. Nathaniel’s Christian beliefs are shown throughout his writings. Nathaniel Hawthrone is often considered a Christian writer. Nathaniel Hawthrone was born on Wednesday, July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Due to his ancestors being Puritan, his religious…