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I'm missing my explanation for my "Intuition over Reason" example!
Remember for each of your chosen pop culture examples, you need a detailed explanation of how it connects to the tenet. For what exactly you need in each explanation, look at step number four on the directions handout on Google Classroom.
For example, my Lady GaGa and "Neature" walk explanations are strong explanations with all of the required info. My Paleo Diet explanation is a good start, but it's incomplete and would not meet all of the criteria.

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While adorable, this isn't a good example. Why shouldn't I use this independent dog on my Modern Transcendentalism Pop Culture Padlet board?

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Although the idea of a "paleo" diet has been around since the 1980's, it was not a popular concept until 2002 when Dr. Loren Cordain released their first"Paleo Diet" cookbook.

A paleo diet is based on the types of foods presumed to have been eaten by early humans, consisting chiefly of meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit, and excluding dairy or grain products and processed food.

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"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau

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"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the late summer of 2009, one lone man and his camera man set out to make nature neat again. The Neature Walk Saga was a compilation of videos urging people to get out and explore the wilderness. The videos were a hit with the youth, and once school started you couldn't walk down a hallway without hearing, "Hey, that's pretty neat" at least twice.

Although the "Neature Walks" tended to be incredibly silly, the ideas in them mirror those of Emerson and Thoreau. There is clear delight on our "Neature Walk" host's face as he shows us around nature, and he was able to instill that youthful enthusiasm in his audience, as well.

While I'm not implying The neature walk man was as influential as Emerson or Thoreau, he was able to share their values - nature, self-reliance, etc - with a modern audience by using the internet. And that's pretty neat.

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"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood... In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrow."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Paleo Diet

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Sandra Bullock's 2007 thriller, "Premonition".

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Neature Walk Saga

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“Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Lady GaGa

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For the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, Lady Gaga donned a headline-grabbing dress made of raw meat. The gag-worthy garment gained a lot of negative attention, but Gaga explained that the dress was a statement about one’s need to ght for
one’s beliefs. Media outlets from Time Magazine to Vogue commented upon the stunt, criticizing singer’s lack of taste and poor judgment. Vegetarian groups and PETA also lambasted the singer. Later, Gaga said the dress was designed to highlight the way women are treated “as pieces of meat.” She also said the dress was a statement about her distaste for the U.S. military’s “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” policy, which was ruled unconstitutional by a federal court in 2011.

While I don’t want to elevate Gaga to a parallel platform with Socrates, Galileo, or Jesus, it is fair to say that her nonconformist message is clear through her fashion and her music. All of the great men mentioned by Emerson were rebels and were, at times, harshly criticized by their peers. The same can be said of Gaga.

Lady Gaga is definitely an attention-hound who successfully uses the controversy she creates to increase the commercial success of her music; nevertheless, she is also a talented musician and symbol for empowerment for those who don’t t into the mainstream mold. Repeated messages of rejecting society’s rules and listening to your own heart/celebrating your own unique beauty are found in her lyrics. If the Transcendentalists were still trying to build their utopia, Gaga would definitely be invited to join them.