Walden

requiring much thought, and research. After an extensive amount of research, and phone conversations, I have decided to pursue a MSW, with the specialization of Military Families and Culture. There are several reasons why I am interested in attending Walden. I like the fact that the MSW program courses are taught by faculty members who are scholar-practitioners. I believe the faculty member’s experience will enhance my learning experience. My undergrad was taught by professors employed…

I have gone on many vacations. I have want with friends and family. I have had a lot of memorable vacations. One of my most memorable is when I want to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. We went horseback riding, Dollywood, and the Ripley's museum. One the first day we went horseback riding at the Sugarland stable in the Smoky Mountain. The trail was beautiful. We saw a black bear. The ride was two miles long. Then when we were done, we walk around the town. We saw Ripley’s museum and we walked through it.…

I am writing this editorial in order to express my feelings on the philosophies of Henry David Thoreau in his essay Walden. “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity” this is the idea of Thoreau’s belief on life but it is simply not possible in today’s world. I agree that we should try to simplify our lives as much as possible and reduce our own stress, however we do need to take on responsibilities in order to live and succeed in life. Personally I’m an active person so if I did not have things to do…

Using Grammarly and SafeAssign as a means of academic integrity Initial post Nowadays there are many ways to maintain academic integrity. Two such ways used at Walden University are Grammarly and SafeAssign. There are other sites that help format and check grammar on the world-wide web. Paperater is another site I have recently tried that has some advantages. The APA Manual is also helpful in learning how to write properly as well as using citations. I believe these resources will help me…

There is a broad understanding of social change which can start with one individual. As scholar practitioners, Walden students are charged with contributing social change to enhance society. As we go through our different degree programs social change is the one common basic denominator all students have in common. The tenants for social change according to Walden’s Task Force are knowledge, skills, and attitudes. The Task Force uses a matrix to map out the features that are parts of social…

After the reading all of the assigned Unit 1 readings I have come to be most interested in “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalism can be defined as a movement that allowed for people to use their intuition, insight, and inspiration expressing their thoughts on independence, religion/spirituality, freedom, and life experiences through literature. And I believe that Emerson wrote this theory of Transcendentalism. He writes of how people need to learn to trust themselves and…

obtaining it.” Another one of Thoreau’s famous stories is named, “Walden.” This story also compares to Emerson’s principles in his story “Self Reliance,” and I am going to dig in deeply into both stories to find these comparisons. A common principle I see between the two are how they both use sentence units, instead of paragraphs. This is obvious in not just these two stories, but their works as a whole. In the story of “Walden,” the units are: “Economy,” “Where I Lived and What I Lived,”…

“Civil Disobedience.” Among other of his great work, Thoreau also wrote Walden, a nonfiction story about a part of his life where he lived in solitude in the woods. Just like Charlie, Thoreau explains one’s own goals will be reached if you press for them. He writes “that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected”(Thoreau Walden…

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…

Without a doubt, one could follow the path of a transcendentalist, such as the one of Christopher McCandless, in America right now. As Henry David Thoreau sharply put in his work Walden; "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." (www.thoreau.eserver.org)…