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The tenets of individuality of the soul and simplicity of nature allows for humans to be self reliant and not rely on society to grow as a person.

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In my opinion, technology is the number one challenge in the way of living out transcendentalism today.

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Immersing myself in nature and its simplicity with a relieving day at the park.

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When times get rough, cheer is something simple in my life that makes me genuinely happy!

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This picture is of me (left) and my best friend and dance partner Jenevieve performing our solo. Dance is passion I resort to when I need to express my individuality.

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Weaving through all the struggles to get to simplicity!

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Britney Spears, pop star, for the majority of her professional career, has been under a conservatorship managed by her father, Jamie Spears. Britney is not only being controlled financial, but also psychologically causing this movement that relates to the transcendental tenet to seek truth.

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When Intellect can’t see ahead

And mind cannot steer away

When the brain won't know any better

And the thoughts fall astray ,

The heart rises

with beats loud

It chooses its path

Passionately, proud

And when that choice is tossed

The beat rests

Now the puzzle falls into place

Pieces sharp together

Like concrete on brick wall

Pieces clasping like clay

Like raindrops on a windowsill

Pieces in a unison harmony

But the baseline comes,

Then the drum line joins,

The conductor fumbles

And once again the thoughts are astray.

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The verse that I will contribute will be about the wonders and privileges that I hold because of my education. I will contribute to this world by choosing my place in today’s society the way I see fit. After I finish my education, my duty will be to report to my occupation of choice and bea fully functioning member of society and the community around me. By having the choice to choose what passion I want to pursue, I am also given the opportunity to fully immerse myself in my passion to share with the world.

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This picture illustrates the scene that was most striking to me. Charlie Dalton who also goes by his Dead Poet Society name, Nwuanda, stood up for what he though was correct and didn't throw Mr. Keating under the bus.

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While reading this poem by Walt Whitman, I feel as if I've flown past my childhood without stopping somewhere and asking myself for the verse that I contribute to the world. The sentimental tone of Whitman's poem led me to empathize with his words and to relate his anecdotes to my own life. This poem's relation to one's identity fits into the transcendental tenet of individualism and understanding the intellectual.

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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. "

This picture represents the tenets of transcendentalism in the quote because the text highlights the known but publicly unpopular truth of self rejection.

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" There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be viewed, namely, as it becomes an object of the intellect. Beside the relation of things to virtue, they have a relation to thought. The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection."

This image relates to the transcendental tenet in the text because it symbolizes one's intellect in relation to ideas such as nature and philosophical thinking.

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"When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet."

This picture is a visual representation of the transcendental tenet of nature that the author writes about in his text when he speaks about the integrity of natural surroundings.

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"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks..."

While also representing the action of walking referred to by Thoreau in "Walking," this image connects to the tenets of transcendentalism in the text because it demonstrates the idea of simplicity.

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"That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make. All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere."

This picture relates to the transcendental tenets represented in this quote because it symbolizes the search for peacefulness within an individual, just how Walden described it.