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Title: I Saw In Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Author: Walt Whitman
Analysis: The Oak tree is symbolic for a person being different and not conforming to others. The whole poem together represents that even if your the only one in a society doing something, you can still inspire and impress others, just like how he was saying he teared off a branch and put it in his room for a symbolic inspiration.

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. . . It is the last survivor of a race
Strong in their forest-pride when I was young.
I can remember when, for miles around,
In place of those smooth meadows and corn-fields,
There stood ten thousand tall and stately trees,
Such as had braved the winds of March

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. It is the last survivor of a raceStrong in their forest-pride when I was young.I can remember when, for miles around,In place of those smooth meadows and corn-fields,There stood ten thousand tall and stately trees,Such as had braved the winds of March

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ANALYSIS: People overlook everything that we have and take many things such as houses, food, clothes, phones, etc for granted, not truly understanding what the meaning of life is and once one does get lost is when one starts to "live life" and truly understand what life is.

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ANALYSIS: One should not simply be a follower but become a leader and promote changes within society and think for oneself. Just like in EMERSON 1 how ones life shouldn't be pre-set and your actions control your own life not other people's decisions or plans.

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ANALYSIS: If you never do what your scared to do then how would there be any meaning to life? Life was created to try new things and if you never try something new then what's the point. Me for example, I was afraid to do this padlet but now i'm not gonna get a zero and fail the class, changing how the outcome of my life could be.

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ANALYSIS: Most people see life already pre-planned out and vision it to be a certain way but Emerson's quote shows that life is filled with uncertainties and you shouldn't limit yourself to what you can achieve with your life, and one's life is guided by his or her actions.

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ANALYSIS: The creators of this video explain how nature is key to being a transcendentalist, explaining what Thoreau's thought and plan was for living in the woods and that civil disobedience is a good thing because paying your taxes is paying for a gun and paying for a gun is the same as firing the gun, as we went over in class.

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AUTHOR: Carole Moses
ANALYSIS: Fanny Fern was a woman who combined the ideas of feminism and transcendentalism to promote change in women's lives and to stop limiting themselves to the roll as "housewife". Fern went against society's "norms" and criticized society of being sexist and mainly focused on a woman's role in society.

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Project MUSE - The Domestic Transcendentalism of Fanny Fern

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Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.

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AUTHOR: Robert A. Gross
ANALYSIS: Concord Massachusetts is the home of many revolutions, where the minutemen lived to fight the Redcoats, and where Emerson and Thoreau waged their own revolution forever changing the history of Concord, as a city where revolutions are birthed, making Concord Massachusetts the protector of freedoms.

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Journal of American Studies

The town of Concord, Massachusetts, is widely celebrated in American culture as a pastoral place. It was the home of the Minutemen, the "embattled farmers" who fought the Redcoats at the Old North Bridge and launched the War for Independence. More than a half-century later, it became the bucolic center of the American Renaissance, where Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau waged their own revolutions of the spirit. In these terms, Concord readily plays its part within the longstanding American opposition between country and city, serving as the timeless small town, the symbolic guardian of that rural simplicity and love of liberty so regularly invoked in times of crisis to recall a complex urban-industrial nation to its roots. Even today, when the town numbers some 16,000 people, Concordians like to picture their community as a "climate for freedom."

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Transcendentalism and Urbanism: Concord, Boston, and the Wider World | Journal of American Studies | Cambridge Core

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Journal of American Studies The town of Concord, Massachusetts, is widely celebrated in American culture as a pastoral place. It was the home of the Minutemen, the "embattled farmers" who fought the Redcoats at the Old North Bridge and launched the War for Independence.

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ANALYSIS: In this podcast they discuss what it truly means to be self reliant and that you must remain true to yourself but what does it mean to be true to yourself since society's standards and visions are always changing. So is there really a "right way" to be fully true with yourself if expectations are always changing.

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:06:45 - 116.1MB)

On Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Scholar" lecture (1837) and his essays "Self-Reliance" and "Circles" (1841).

How should we live? Emerson thinks that conformity, which includes most of what passes for ethics, jobs, and scholarship, makes us less than truly human. Be true to yourself! But since we're all ever-changing, that's a moving target, right? But Emerson thinks that when you get really truly honest about what you think and feel, it turns out that you've tapped into something universal, something beyond just you, something eternal.

But don't expect Emerson to really explain that part; the upshot of these essays is primarily social, not religious, much less metaphysical. Trust yourself, stop bullshitting, stop living according to others' expectations! Mark, Wes, and Dylan argue over whether this is tired cliche or acutely perceptive, and whether Emerson's poetic language provides helps or distracts. Read more about the topic and get the essays.

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Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:06:45 - 116.1MB) On Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Scholar" lecture (1837) and his essays "Self-Reliance" and "Circles" (1841). How should we live? Emerson thinks that conformity, which includes most of what passes for ethics, jobs, and scholarship, makes us less than truly human.

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ANALYSIS: If you ever decide to become a transcendentalist then watch Shrek because Shrek would be considered a transcendentalist person because he is self reliant, living within nature with no help from others.

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ANALYSIS: To be self-reliant would mean you do everything on your own relying on no one else. This image shows self reliance by the man planting his own food.

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ANALYSIS: This image shows off the idea of self-reliance/transcendentalism because this home is off the grid (no address) and completely made by nature and not some trailer which living in a trailer would not be fully self reliance because they were made from humans.

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Hakuna Matata- The Lion King
LYRICS: "Hakuna Matata. Hakuna matata.
Hakuna Matata. Hakuna matata.
Hakuna Matata. Hakuna-
It means no worries for the rest of your days
It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata."
ANALYSIS: This song shows self reliance because as Simba went to live off on his own, he encountered many difficulties and troubles until meeting some  people who taught him the phrase "Hakuna Matata" meaning no problems with anyone or anything to do with nature, much like how Thoreau saw with nature.

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Colors Of The Wind- Pocahontas
LYRICS: "But I know every rock, and tree, and creature. Has a life. Has a spirit. Has a name.
You think the only people who are people, are the people who think and look like you."
ANALYSIS: This song lyrics would fit in with how Emerson and Thoreau saw animals and nature are all beautiful and that not everything that isn't a human should immediately be seen as a monster who poses a threat, like when the early american settlers would attack and kick out the Indian tribes because they weren't like them. Or when black people weren't considered people because their skin color wasn't white.

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Wide Open Spaces- Dixie Chicks
LYRICS: "Who's never left home, who's never struck out? To find a dream and a life of their own. A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone.

Many precede and many will follow"
ANALYSIS: The lyrics to this song can closely be related to the idea of self reliance, showing off how Thoreau went beyond Emerson due to the fact that Emerson never tried it, but only wrote about it , while Thoreau went out to find his dream by himself.