Walden Pond

In “Walden” Henry David Thoreau he describes his two year experiment on living with only the bare necessities of life. One of the themes of this story is “Economy”, he describes how he lived working and spending money on only the minimum to survive, and in the process he explains how he became spiritually free in the process. A work we read in class that had many similarities to “Walden” was, “A Way to Wealth” by Benjamin Franklin, he tackles many of the same viewpoints and beliefs about the…

Walden by Thoreau and Ancient Futures by Norberg-Hodge are both categorized as books that describe pre-WWII simple life where industrialization has not taken place. The authors of both books appreciate human beings who live harmoniously with nature and balance their leisure and working time. On the other hand, Americans described in Schor’s books The Overworked American and The Overspent American live an entirely different so-called “good life”, which destroy nature and environment drastically.…

equilibrium in the root of our existence, our essence of life. Yet, we are made to think will reach enlightenment by reading the words of a man who existed centuries ago. Even so, I learned to discover my own spiritual enlightenment years ago. In Thoreau’s Walden, he said “We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia 's Chair, far from noise and disturbance.” (Thoreau 72). My mother once asked me…

without individuality the world would be led by followers rather than leaders that can discern from right and wrong. It is through autonomy and self-exploration that people can strive for change within themselves and our nation. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and “Civil Disobedience” both discuss the idea of obtaining independence from our established institution trough the exploration of the self and by being self-reliant. He also emphasizes that in order to achieve these two, people need to live…

Thoreau in his essay “Walking” introduces the idea of wildness. This wildness is not the same as the wilderness that has become the default for many individuals. In this essay I will attempt to identify Thoreau’s definition of wildness. Thoreau identifies the wildness as the West (609). In one way this is the geographical west, the area currently occupied by states such as Kansas, Colorado, and Montana. Opposite to the west is the east geographically the east is England and France. Thoreau is…

“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure…” Henry David Thoreau (page 400). When Thoreau was a child he rarely followed directions. He was independent and strong-willed. Thoreau went to Harvard. After college Thoreau got a teaching job. Due to corporal punishment he had to quit. Henry opened his own school in Concord with his brother. The school was successful but because John, Henry’s brother, became ill they had to close the school (page 377). Thoreau often uses the word…

Thoreau writings had a great impact on Chris. Chris tried to live life like Thoreau. Chris’s view on society was shaped impart by Thoreau. Chris wanted live life not just be a part of it. Thoreau wrote “…I mean that they should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end,” (American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, 17). Chris and Thoreau have many things in common. They both wanted to…

yet again there are people who repeat the same thing and never truly live. He wanted to live a full life and not die a person who didn’t live life to the fullest. That was probably one of Thoreau’s biggest fears after his trip to the wilderness of Walden. He realized up there over the course of two years what he had been missing and what he could’ve been doing all along. No one should live a shell of a life, but to reach out and soar to new heights. “You should never value anything more than…

Question 1: What role did technology change play in improvements in agriculture during the era of the market revolution? What kind of impact on values did such changes foster? When technology booms, there is no surprise to the beneficial advantages that come forth from agriculture, industry, and transportation: there was no exception in the market revolution of 1815. “One of the earliest and most important… was an iron plow introduced by Jethro Wood in 1819;” the plow led to the modification of…

Travels with Charley Travels with Charley, written by famous American author John Steinbeck in his later years, is a travelogue of his almost four-month-long trip with his poodle, Charley, on a cross-country journey to try to regain his connection with America. His reason was that he wanted to be recognized as an “American writer,” but not just have the title put upon him because he lived in America and was a writer. In order for him to earn that title, he felt he needed to broaden his…