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This art represents transcendentalism very well because it shows individualism and inside one's mind. There can be color and darkness, one just has to explore in order to achieve the methods of transcendentalism. In order to find out, one must go deep into their mind and explore.

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I find true beauty in this piece of art because it shows all the possible colors you can be. This work is saying that while surrounded by nature, one can be whoever they want. The different colors represent the different personalities of everyone when they are with nature and without nature.

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This photo was taken by my sister in our neighborhood. I like how it shows the gloominess in the day. I believe in the opposite of Thoreau and Emerson when it comes to whether things should be seen in a positive or negative outlook. This shows the dark part of things that I tend to agree more with.

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During this podcast, a few people discuss where Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson grew up and what influenced them. They talk about all of the different meanings that they meant in their works. They are comparing and contrasting Thoreau and Emerson.

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This photo was taken by me on an island called Peaks up in Maine. While I go up to the island every summer, I have time to think. Our house is located on the back shore and we are away from everything. I sit and think about life and the different possible outcomes. I think about my family and what it would be like if I didn't have them. There are woods behind our house so sometimes I go on walks to see all the deer and beavers. They are in their natural habitat and I get to thinking about what humans natural habitats are if they have any.

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This article found on Khan Academy says the transcendentalism stemmed from intellectualism in the early 19th century. Two very well known writers, Thoreau and Emerson, had very similar theories that they shared with the world. Both of them had much in common. The original idea of transcendentalism branched out into more theories like feminism and abolishing slavery.

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In the 1830s, the philosophy of Transcendentalism arose in New England. Some of its most famous adherents, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, are still regarded as leading American thinkers today.

The philosophy of transcendentalism arose in the 1830s in the eastern United States as a reaction to intellectualism. Its adherents yearned for intense spiritual experiences and sought to transcend the purely material world of reason and rationality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two of the most famous and influential transcendentalists.

Some influential transcendentalists, such as Margaret Fuller, were early pioneers of feminism.

The philosophy of transcendentalism

The philosophy of transcendentalism originated in Unitarianism, the predominant religious movement in Boston in the early 19th century. Unitarianism was a liberal Christian sect that emphasized rationality, reason, and intellectualism; it was especially popular at Harvard.

The transcendentalists who established the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1836-mostly Unitarian clergy and Boston-area intellectuals-did not reject Unitarianism but yearned for a more spiritual experience to balance out the emphasis on pure reason. The very word transcendentalism refers to a spirituality that transcends the realm of rationality and the material world. Transcendentalists believed that humans were fundamentally good but corrupted by society and that they should therefore strive for independence and self-reliance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two of the most famous transcendentalists. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built on Walden Pond in Massachusetts and lived there for two years, two months, and two days. He chronicled the experience in his book Walden, published in 1854, which explored the themes of nature, spirituality, self-reliance, and the simple life. Thoreau acknowledged the debt transcendentalism owed to Indian religious beliefs by paying homage to the Bhagavad Gita, a Sanskrit epic that is one of the foundational texts of Hinduism: "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."

Emerson gained fame as an essayist and public lecturer; his 1836 essay "Nature" laid out many of the tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy. He suggested that God could be found in nature and that spending time in nature was the closest man could come to the divine. Another of Emerson's most famous works was the 1841 essay "Self-Reliance," a defense of individualism, which emphasized nonconformity and personal responsibility. One of Emerson's most famous quotes, a denunciation of mindless conformity, comes from this essay: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

Women and transcendentalism

Other influential transcendentalists were feminist pioneers. Margaret Fuller, a journalist and women's rights advocate, edited The Dial, which was first published in 1840 and served as the primary journal of the transcendentalists until 1844. She was a frequent contributor to the journal and in 1845 published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, an early feminist manifesto that may have inspired the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention -the first conference in America devoted to the issue of women's rights.

Other prominent female transcendentalists include Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, who served as the business manager of The Dial and in 1860 established the first English-language kindergarten in the United States, and Louisa May Alcott, author of the classic novel Little Women.

Transcendentalism and reform

By the 1850s, many transcendentalists had become subsumed in the struggle to abolish slavery. As the incorporation of new territories into the Union exacerbated sectional tensions, the slavery issue dominated New England intellectual circles. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in keeping with his reverence for individual freedom, became a vocal abolitionist and spoke out against the Fugitive Slave Law-which provided for the return of runaway slaves-and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 -which held that settlers in Kansas and Nebraska would be the ones to decide whether those states would become slave states or free.

Because the leading transcendentalists began to focus their efforts on eliminating chattel slavery, transcendentalism faded from the scene by the 1850s. The ideas and writings of the transcendentalists, however, continued to inspire later reform movements, including the movement for women's suffrage, and the labor movement.

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In the 1830s, the philosophy of Transcendentalism arose in New England. Some of its most famous adherents, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, are still regarded as leading American thinkers today. The philosophy of transcendentalism arose in the 1830s in the eastern United States as a reaction to intellectualism.

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The One in All by Margaret Fuller
"Existence is as deep a verity:

Without the dual, where is unity?

And the ‘I am’ cannot forbear to be"

This poem writes that no one knows how to act in the world by themselves. They have to know what other people's opinions are and cannot think for themselves. The whole point of her writing this is for people to realize that it is okay to be unique and be individual.

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Bob Roth is a transcendental meditation( TM ) expert who appeared on The Ellen Show and explained how TM can benefit the mind and body. Throughout the video, he said that TM should be done twice a day for 20 minutes each and it is better than sleeping. It helps one's mind access the calm that one needs in order to deal with the stress one feels on a day to day basis.

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Ellen Welcomes Transcendental Meditation Expert Bob Roth

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This quote said by Thoreau refers to his beliefs that everyone should be who and what they desire to be. No matter how hard it might be to accomplish one's dreams, Henry David always believed in everyone. As this quote says, one should always be confident no matter how hard the journey.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a transcendentalist who believed that everyone should be one with their surroundings. He believed strongly in spiritualism. He said nature was defined as something visible if one opens their mind.

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What Henry David meant by this quote was that one should go above and beyond. Going the extra mile will not only help oneself, but others around them as well. If one is only focused on one aspect of life, they will waste much of their life.

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Michael Jackson- "Earth Song"

"Did you ever stop to notice, All the children dead from war? Did you ever stop to notice, This crying Earth, these weeping shores?"

Throughout this song, Michael refers to himself as a Christ-like figure. In the lines above, he sings about children dying and shores crying. The shores crying in my opinion represents global warming and how the ocean is suffering.

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Earth Song Lyrics: What about sunrise? / What about rain / What about all the things that you said we were to gain? / What about killing fields? / Is there a time? / What about all the things that

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Beatles- “Here Comes the Sun”
"Little Darling I feel that ice is melting slowly, Little Darling, it seems like years since it's been clear, Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say, It's all right"

In these lyrics, the Beatles are describing to let the dark, bitter memories go and welcome the new warmth that is within. Throughout the song, it defines beauty. Once you reach that warmth within yourself, it will be all right.

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Here Comes the Sun Lyrics

[Chorus]
Here comes the sun, doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

[Verse 1]
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here

[Chorus]
Here comes the sun, doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

[Verse 2]
Little darling, the smile's returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here

[Chorus]
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

[Bridge]
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

[Verse 3]
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear

[Chorus]
Here comes the sun, doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

[Outro]
Here comes the sun, doo da doo doo
Here comes the sun
It's all right
It's all right

"Here Comes the Sun" is a George Harrison-penned track from Abbey Road. Following a period of disillusionment with the music industry, he skipped a day at Apple's offices and went to his good mate Eric Clapton 's house. After feeling free and back in love with music, he wrote this song.

'Here Comes The Sun' was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: 'sign this' and 'sign that'. Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. The relief of not having to go and see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars and wrote 'Here Comes The Sun.'

-George Harrison from 1995's Anthology series (via BeatlesBible.com)

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"Here Comes the Sun" was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: 'Sign this' and 'Sign that'. Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to slag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. The relief of not having to go and see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars and wrote "Here Comes the Sun."

-George Harrison in his autobiography I, Me, Mine

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Here Comes the Sun Lyrics: Here comes the sun, doo da doo doo / Here comes the sun, and I say / It's all right / Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter / Little darling, it feels like years

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This article writes where transcendentalism originated, what it means, the people that were influenced by it, where it is in our society, and when it was most popular. Henry David Thoreau was one of the first transcendentalists with his work very well known work, Walden.

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Transcendentalism, 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths. German transcendentalism (especially as it was refracted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle), Platonism and Neoplatonism, the Indian and Chinese scriptures, and the writings of such mystics as Emanuel Swedenborg and Jakob Böhme were sources to which the New England Transcendentalists turned in their search for a liberating philosophy.

Eclectic and cosmopolitan in its sources and part of the Romantic movement, New England Transcendentalism originated in the area around Concord, Massachusetts, and from 1830 to 1855 represented a battle between the younger and older generations and the emergence of a new national culture based on native materials. It attracted such diverse and highly individualistic figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and James Freeman Clarke, as well as George Ripley, Bronson Alcott, the younger W.E. Channing, and W.H. Channing. In 1840 Emerson and Margaret Fuller founded The Dial (1840-44), the prototypal "little magazine" wherein some of the best writings by minor Transcendentalists appeared. The writings of the Transcendentalists and those of contemporaries such as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, for whom they prepared the ground, represent the first flowering of the American artistic genius and introduced the American Renaissance in literature ( see also American literature: American Renaissance).

In their religious quest, the Transcendentalists rejected the conventions of 18th-century thought, and what began in a dissatisfaction with Unitarianism developed into a repudiation of the whole established order. They were leaders in experimental schemes for living (Thoreau at Walden Pond, Alcott at Fruitlands, Ripley at Brook Farm); women's suffrage; better conditions for workers; temperance for all; modifications of dress and diet; the rise of free religion; educational innovation; and other humanitarian causes.

Heavily indebted to the Transcendentalists' organic philosophy, aesthetics, and democratic aspirations were the pragmatism of William James and John Dewey, the environmental planning of Benton MacKaye and Lewis Mumford, the architecture (and writings) of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, and the American "modernism" in the arts promoted by Alfred Stieglitz.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Adam Augustyn.

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Transcendentalism | Definition, Characteristics, Beliefs, Authors, & Facts

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As Ralph Waldo Emerson is saying, the only way to stay true to oneself is by deciding who one wants to be and taking inituative to accomplish that. If one is influenced greatly by others, they are not living up to their expectations.

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This artwork shows that there are many different ways in which the world can be perceived. From one perspective, it can be magical. From another, it can be dark and gloomy, but one has to find out for themselves.

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"Keep Ya Head Up"- Tupac Shakur
"And now my son's gettin' older and older and cold, from havin' the world on his shoulders, While the rich kids is drivin' Benz, I'm still tryin' to hold on to my survivin' friends, And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up, but, Please, you got to keep your head up"

Tupac Shakur is singing about the continuous violence in the world. He wants his son to live in a healthy world so he sings about it to let world know how he is feeling. When he sings that he is 'still tryin to hold on to my survivin friends', he wants to let others know to always look in a positive outcome even if bad things are happening.

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2Pac may have been a gangsta, but he had feelings too! This is a feminist anthem from Pac, with references to pro-choice politics and what one might call “rape culture”. In a 1995