Ralph H. Baer

I once read Walden by Henry David Thoreau. The book’s cogent viewpoint of independency resonated with my own ideals. His ideas on self-reliance and simplicity influenced me to extol virtues of an individualist’s life; moreover, his consistent motifs of nature helped me understand simplicity and the hindrances of too many luxuries. My mentality to impress those around me changed to that I should impress myself. Walden granted me the acumen to adjust myself to the individualist’s lifestyle.…

Roger Sherman Have you ever thought of dying from a rash? Well Roger Sherman did.He started to study law when he was about 21 years old. In this essay you will learn about Roger Sherman and how he was the only one to sign all 4 major document of the American revolution. Childhood Roger Sherman was born April 19, 1721 in Newton, Massachusetts. When Roger was two he moved to Dorchester and started to go to church. He was 20 when his father died and his older brother…

The American Romanticism grew and thrived in the late 1700’s into the mid 1800’s. The movement promoted emotions, imagination, intellectual thinking and reflection, and individuality. Romanticism opposed strict traditional religion or anything that confined and limited the individual. It was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution and also the Age of Enlightenment of the early 1700’s. The Age of Enlighten, also called the Age of Reason, promoted separation of church and state, and the use of…

Transcendentalism Nature is beautiful to the human eye, it brings peace and freedom to the mind and soul that leaves a feeling of contentment with life. Nature has a deeper meaning that carries a mood throughout the beauty behind it. The beauty of nature and the changing of seasons depict our emotions, thoughts and our physical desire of living life to its fullest. Our spirits have a deep, meaningful connection with nature and our ideas go beyond the natural world as our mood is depicted by…

“To believe our own thought, to be believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.” A small but very self explanatory quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, a simple man but with a gifted mind. A mind so original with only one perspective of life. His mind was set on the sanity of the individual, that men must be able to act and think on his own. But like Emerson there was also a man full of faith in only one phenomenon, the Bible. Jonathan Edward author of “Sinners in the…

American Voice American Voice is characterized by themes of Hard work, Equality, and also Freedom. The American Voice is characterized by the theme of Hard Work of the poor innocent people that try to bring their family forward. This is demonstrated in ‘’I Hear America Singing.’’ Everyone by race and gender work hard to keep their family maintained. In The Poem Lines 3-8 talk about the laborers and the women also working for their husbands and families. This Supports the claim because the…

Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that developed in the the late 1820’s and 30’s which was used to protest against a general state of creativity and spirituality. There were many transcendentalists who wrote pieces during this time period, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. My personal favorite piece by him is Self Reliance. This piece genuinely spoke to me because he’s saying that you should always be true to who you are and never try to be someone you are not. ( idea 1 ) When reading…

it when in reality it is just a want. People are always updating things that are not necessary living in comfortable world of material items. Thoreau has gotten away from this way of life living as close to nature as possible. People are very worried about trying to get ahead and make more and more money they get wrapped up in this and forget to take in the little things of life for example living simply in nature. You need to be true to yourself and not look for others to blame for your own…

philosophy based up on the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical. Some of the more famous transcendentalists are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and many more. “They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity...,” Russell Goodman states in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The main focus of these thinkers was…

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “Men have looked at themselves and at things so long that they come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institution as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property.” The concept of people judging their own esteem over ownership of property and possessions is very true, and only leads to greed, self-judgment, and the unhappiness of the owner. The main problem that ownership leads to the want for more…