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This video talks about conformity and how we as humans have a desire to be like everyone else but also tells us that we should be our own person and not conform. Conformity is a big issue and we need more people to be themselves but once we start doing that it will be conformity still because everyone will conform to being their own individual. Being accepted and loved is a huge part of who we are as humans and that is what Thoreau and Emerson were straying away from and telling us to be ourselves.

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Conformity: are we afraid to stand out? | Mina Whorms | TEDxUCCI

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The poem “Meditations” is about God and nature and how they relate to one another. Fuller is talking about how the thunderclap and the rivers flowing from nature helped her more understand the world and her belief a little in God, but she said that it doesn’t truly mean she believed in him. Nature and God can be seen as related in many aspects and this was tellling us a few and helping us understand how they relate.

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The clouds are marshalling across the sky,

Leaving their deepest tints upon yon range

Of soul-alluring hills. The breeze comes softly,

Laden with tribute that a hundred orchards

Now in their fullest blossom send, in thanks

For this refreshing shower. The birds pour forth

In heightened melody the notes of praise

They had suspended while God's voice was speaking,

And his eye flashing down upon his world.

I sigh, half-charmed, half-pained. My sense is living,

And, taking in this freshened beauty, tells

Its pleasure to the mind. The mind replies,

And strives to wake the heart in turn, repeating

Poetic sentiments from many a record

Which other souls have left, when stirred and satisfied

By scenes as fair, as fragrant. But the heart

Sends back a hollow echo to the call

Of outward things, - and its once bright companion,

Who erst would have been answered by a stream

Of life-fraught treasures, thankful to be summoned, -

Can now rouse nothing better than this echo;

Unmeaning voice, which mocks their softened accents.

Content thee, beautiful world! and hush, still busy mind!

My heart hath sealed its fountains. To the things

Of Time they shall be oped no more. Too long,

Too often were they poured forth: part have sunk

Into the desert; part profaned and swollen

By bitter waters, mixed by those who feigned

They asked them for refreshment, which, turned back,

Have broken and o'erflowed their former urns.

So when ye talk of pleasure, lonely world,

And busy mind, ye ne'er again shall move me

To answer ye, though still your calls have power

To jar me through, and cause dull aching here.

No so the voice which hailed me from the depths

Of yon dark-bosomed cloud, now vanishing

Before the sun ye greet. It touched my centre,

The voice of the Eternal, calling me

To feel his other worlds; to feel that if

I could deserve a home, I still might find it

In other spheres, - and bade me not despair,

Though 'want of harmony' and 'aching void'

Are terms invented by the men of this,

I loved to see the lightnings flash athwart

The stooping heavens; I loved to hear the thunder

Call to the seas and mountains; for I thought

'Tis thus man's flashing fancy doth enkidle

The firmament of mind; 'tis thus his eloquence

Calls unto the soul's depths and heights; and still

I defied the creature, nor remembered

The Creator in his works.

The proud delight of that keen sympathy

Is gone; no longer riding on the wave,

But whelmed beneath it: my own plans and works,

Or, as the Scriptures phrase it, my 'inventions'

No longer interpose 'twist me and Heaven.

Today, for the first time, I felt the Deity,

And uttered prayer on hearing thunder. This

Must be thy will, - for finer, higher spirits

Have gone through this same process, - yet I think

There was religion in that strong delight,

Those sounds, those thoughts of power imparted. True,

I did not say, 'He is the Lord thy God,'

But I had feeling of his essence. But

''Twas pride by which the angels fell.' So be it!

But O, might I but see a little onward!

Father, I cannot be a spirit of power;

May I be active as a spirit of love,

Since thou hast ta'en me from that path which Nature

Seemed to appoint, O, deign to ope another,

Where I may walk with thought and hope assured;

'Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief!'

Had I but faith like that which fired Novalis,

I too could bear that the heart 'fall in ashes,'

While the freed spirit rises from beneath them,

With heavenward-look, and Phoenix-plumes upsoaring!

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Meditations by Margaret Fuller | Poetry Foundation

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The clouds are marshalling across the sky, Leaving their deepest tints upon yon range Of soul-alluring hills. The breeze comes softly, Laden with tribute that a hundred orchards Now in their fullest blossom send, in thanks For this refreshing shower.

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This original image though yes it may be of nature is more than just that it is about again how God and nature work together and they made something beautiful. The beauty of the world is all around us and we just have to look. The fact is that we nowadays and even back then when Thoreau and Emerson lived were all to interested in the new technology that existed and the future that we can’t bother to look at the beauty around us and what good and nature has created.

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When simplying your life you only need a few things and this is what that talks about and how to get those things you need. Transcendentalism isn’t all about nature and how we have to admire its beauty but also how we should live and what we should stand by and simplicity is a part of that. This podcast talks about how we need to live our life more simply and what that means.

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Clear Your Clutter Inside Out | Organize | Mindfulness | Well Being | Stress Reduction | Decluttering | Life Coaching | How to Declutter | Declutter Your Life

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Do you feel overwhelmed and exhausted a lot? Is your to-do list a mile long with no end in sight? Would you like to quit going a million miles a minute and gain some peace? Learn 10 tips to simplify your life.

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This image represents simplicity because the way that everything is lined up and organized and plain no extra pizzazz. This kinda reflects a rainbow and how the colors are all lined up and just the way rainbows are is just beautiful. This can represent many different ideas and values but it most represents transcendentalism.

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This quote by Emerson talking about the Oversoul saying that it is bigger than time and that it is the father of time. The oversoul is what connects God, man and nature together and this quote is saying that the connection between those things is greater than time. God, man and nature have always been connected even if we don’t see.

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In this quote Emerson is talking about being your own individual and becoming what you want to be. Everyone has some inkling on who they want to become but you must decide what you want to do and who want want to be before destiny will help you and you will be able to do just that thing. Emerson wants us to know that your destiny can only be decided on by you and nobody else.

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“To be awake is to be alive,” when reading this quote one can look at it and know that Thoreau is talking about what it means to be awake and how it translates to being alive. Though it is east to think that we are all awake, you have to assume that Thoreau must mean awake in a different sense, like one must be awake in their thoughts and mind and being able to understand what that means. As soon as we understand that we are awake and can understand those thoughts can we be alive and truly live.

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This quote from Thoreau is telling us that we must not be looking at ourselves like we know what we are but become lost to begin to understand who we are. He doesn’t say how we must become lost because that part we can do pretty easily but the harder part is knowing what to recognize as understanding of ourselves. This quote is about part of transcendentalism because it more about knowing that it is on you to understand who you are and to have your own thoughts about it.

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News Article 2- The Evolution of Simplicity

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News Article 2- The Evolution of Simplicity

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This article on simplicity talks about all the new movements about keeping homes decluttered and cleaning out clothes and just how it has evolved from what it was in the past. The more one thinks about this though the more you think and realize if we didn’t have all this stuff we wouldn’t need to get rid of it. Also it proves what Thoreau was doing when he lived in that cabin in the woods to live a simple life with only a few things.

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In this country we're raised to go for the gusto, to try new things and savor the smorgasbord of life's possibilities. As Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, "The chief work of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex. Because more complex and intense intellectual efforts mean a fuller and richer life. That means more life. Life is an end to itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it."

This striving for fullness and variety has always sparked a counter-impulse toward simplicity and naturalness. Benjamin Franklin wore an old fur cap in Paris to exemplify a natural unaffected virtue.

Henry David Thoreau made a fervent protest out of simplicity. Most Americans lead lives of quiet desperation, he argued. The things they call good, like riches, are really bad. On the other hand, "as you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude; poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

Puritans, Quakers, Orthodox Jews and many other groups have always favored ascetic living and high thinking as a way to clear out those material things that might distract them from humility and grace, compassion and prayer, the spirit and the Lord.

Today's simplicity movements are different from what they were in the past. Today's most obvious simplicity impulse is the movement to declutter the home. Marie Kondo's book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" now ranks at No. 2 on Amazon among the best-selling books of 2015. There are thousands of members of the National Association of Professional Organizers. Magazines and websites are stuffed with tips on how to declutter your living areas. (Everything that can be folded should be folded! Open the mail while standing over the recycling bin!)

Cleaning out the closets and paring down the wardrobe has become a religious ritual for many - a search for serenity, a blow against stress, and a longing for a beauty that is found by pruning away what is not.

The second big tendency in today's simplicity movement involves mental hygiene: techniques to clean out the email folder and reduce the incoming flow. For example, Mailwise is a mobile email product that cleans out repetitive phrases so you can read your emails more quickly. (Woe to the day they invent a version for newspaper columns.)

As my Times colleague April Lawson points out, many of us are on a wireless hamster wheel, running furiously to keep the inbox in the same place. Something special like a dinner party or a museum visit is hollowed out when your mind is on your screen or at five places at once. After a while there's an ache from all the scattered shallowness.

So of course there's a mass movement to combat mental harriedness, the epidemic of A.D.D. all around. Of course there's a struggle to regain control of your own attention, to set priorities about what you will think about, to see fewer things but to see them more deeply.

One of the troublesome things about today's simplicity movements is that they are often just alternate forms of consumption. Magazines like Real Simple are sometimes asking you to strip away your stuff so you can buy new, simpler stuff. There's a whiff of the haute bourgeoisie ethos here - that simplification is not really spiritual or antimaterialism; just a more refined, organic, locally grown and morally status-building form of materialism.

Today's simplicity movements are also not as philosophically explicit as older ones. The Puritans were stripping away the material for a closer contact with God. Thoreau was stripping away on behalf of a radical philosophy. It's easy to see what today's simplifiers are throwing away; it's not always clear what they are for. It's not always explicit what rightly directed life they envision.

Still, there's clearly some process of discovery here. Early in life you choose your identity by getting things. But later in an affluent life you discover or update your identity by throwing away what is no longer useful, true and beautiful. One simplicity expert advised people to take all their books off their shelves and throw them on the floor. Only put back the books that you truly value.

That's an exercise in identity discovery, an exercise in realizing and then prioritizing your current tastes and beliefs. People who do that may instinctively be seeking higher forms of pruning: being impeccable with your words, parsimonious but strong with your commitments, disciplined about your time, selective about your friendships, moving generally from fragmentation toward unity of purpose. There's an enviable emotional tranquillity at the end of that road.

In a world of rampant materialism and manifold opportunities, many people these days are apparently learning who they are by choosing what they can do without.

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In this country we're raised to go for the gusto, to try new things and savor the smorgasbord of life's possibilities. As Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, "The chief work of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex. Because more complex and intense intellectual efforts mean a fuller and richer life.

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This article is about non-conformity and individualism because it talks about how nowadays we dance to our own beat or how we should do that. We should be who want to be and not listen to what others have to say about us. This article talks about how we as we are should love what and who we are.

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The world we live in today is open. Yet most people still have the same conversations with the same people and wonder why nothing changes. It is those...

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Simplicity is a part of transcendentalism because to be able to look around you and know what is going on you must have some simplicity and not all the crazy and wild stuff like we have today. In this image this man and this tree are showing simplicity because it is just them and that is all they need to stay peaceful and intune  with the world. Since the man is walking towards the tree he is “probably” walking away from many other things and just wants to be aloneness and be simple.

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This image is about self-reliance and how we must be able to do things ourselves. When the fish is using its lasso to get the food the fish is showin how he can only rely on himself to get his own food and not on some human. This fish is somewhat proving that he is more reliant on him feeding himself than relying on some human government actually feed him.

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This image shows non-conformity because the one guy is a different color and he is standing differently/ doing a handstand. The guy is being different than all the others and is “probably” choosing to do what he wants to do and not care about what he is doing. He is being free and not caring what he does.

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Song 1- Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

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Song 1- Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

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“I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find”

This song is apart of transcendentalism because it shows non-conformity to the vision of having to be perfect all the time. In the lyrics it is saying that she is breaking the tradition of being perfect by going out of the lines people have drawn for themselves and for those around them. It also says that you should be free to let go of what is holding you back and to be yourself, be “unwritten”

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Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (Official Video) (as featured in Anyone But You)

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Song 2- Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots 

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Song 2- Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots 

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“I wish I found some better sounds no one’s ever heard

I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words
I wish I found some chords in an order that is new
I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang”

This song is about being and individual and wishing you could do your own thing. The singer is telling us that they wish there were things that they could create that no one else had and that there would be creativity and individualism in this world so we wouldn't be so “stressed out”. They are also talking about when they were little and could have an imagination and not have so many rules to follow and could pretty much do what they wanted.

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twenty one pilots: Stressed Out [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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“don't stop believin'
hold on to the feelin'
streetlight people,
living just to find emotion
hiding, somewhere in the night”

This song shows transcendentalism because it’s about letting go and seizing the moment. It says that you should hold on to that feeling that causes you to do whatever you want and to never stop believing in what you believe in. This song shows that you are standing up for yourself and thinking for yourself

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Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (Official Audio)