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Transcendentalism works to explain how self-reliant, independent thinkers can have a positive effect on society

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8: Challenges to Living the Transcendental Life

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8: Challenges to Living the Transcendental Life

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The growth of cities have resulted in the destruction of forests and plains in favor of large, gray buildings that hurt our ability to embrace the nature around us.

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Relaxing on a hill with the spectacular mountains and trees behind me that allow me to grab a breath of fresh air from nature

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The relaxing walk in the woods allows me to embrace nature and have clearer thoughts with no distractions

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The beauty of the nature around me leaves me to think about life in solitude.

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The magnificent San Diego sun brings me happiness and rids me of the stress in life.

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Stand up for what you believe in and do what you think is right without conforming to society.

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Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (Escape Tour 1981: Live In Houston)

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I stared out the window
And witnessed God's vision of the world.
The stream with its soft, relaxing flow,
the trees with their mesmerizing height that will only continue to grow,
And the wind with its calming whirl.

I looked up at the heavens above
And began to ask the Almighty God,
Why is it that man destroys what you created with love?
Why does man target the spectacular beauty of nature that the bible speaks of?
Is humanity truly so flawed?

God answered me,
Through the sight of human greed.
Man wanted more and more farm land for money,
So he began to chop down every tree
In order to satisfy his despicable need.

We have willingly given nature no care
Forests have been chopped down for more farm land.
Factories with the purpose to make more money have polluted our air
And our sands have been destroyed for glassware.
All so that man can satisfy his need to live a life more grand.

Nature asks man to stop with a plead,
But we have allowed our mind to be dictated by greed.

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3. I’ve always wondered what I wanted to do in life; it’s a question that everyone asks themselves because it truly is a challenging one. The question “What do I want to be when I grow up?” was answered when my father had experienced a heart attack. Thankfully, he survived and got stents that allow him to live a healthy life, but when this terrible event happened to me, I quickly realized two things. My father is not the only one who has experienced something like this, and I am not the only one who has been a family member praying to God that their loved one makes it. It instantly hit me that I wanted to be a doctor because after realizing what had happened to my dad and how happy my entire family was to realize the procedure was successful, I knew that’s what I wanted to do in life. The thought of saving people’s lives and making their families happier just like the doctors did with my father and my family is incredible to me. My dream is to be the guy helping people live happy, healthy lives with their families, which is what I want my verse to be in our world.

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Finding your verse in this world

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Walt Whitman's, "Oh Me! O life!" is a poem that attempts to teach the audience about the importance of finding their purpose in life. He describes how their will be low, sad moments in life but those moments will go and life will continue. Your chance of finding your purpose will never die so long as life goes on. This poem greatly relates to Neil in Dead Poets' Society who discovered his verse in life, acting. However, due to his dad not allowing him to contribute his verse, Neil sadly ended his life because he felt that his purpose in life had been destroyed.

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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness...It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."     -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson explains how being self-reliant and not always following the crowd is what separates great men from normal men, which fits with the Transcendental belief of living in solitude.

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"Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique. A leaf, a sun -beam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all,- that perfectness and harmony, is beauty. The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms,- the totality of nature..."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

This quote connects to Transcendentalism because it portrays how nature creates beauty in our world.

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"Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear...In the woods, is perpetual youth."    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson describes how embracing nature and accepting it in your life can relieve stress and bring comfort to the mind and body.

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"When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods."    -Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau explains how nature is a crucial part of our walks and is necessary to truly benefit from a walk, which connects to Transcendentalist teachings.

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1A: Quote: "Where I lived and What I Lived For"

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1A: Quote: "Where I lived and What I Lived For"

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"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand..."    -Henry David Thoreau.

This quote connects to Transcendentalism because it calls for living a simplistic life with little detail, which Transcendentalism attempted to do by embracing nature.