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This poem, by Suskiwen, is about nonconformity and being your own person. In the poem Suskiwen talks about how society constantly tries to pull you in and it even seems like a good idea to conform, but in the end, its not worth it to give up what makes you just to belong with everyone else. Without your own identity and beliefs, you live a transcendental life to a big enough extent to matter.

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EXTINCTION REBELLION: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CLIMATE UPRISING LEADER -  by Jeff Schechtman

This podcast talks about how a group called Extinction Rebellion is taking action and trying to get the rest of the world to join them in that action to do something about climate change before its too late. This is a group of green activists who are using civil disobedience as one of their main ways to get their point across to the whole world. As Rory Varrato, a member of the group, explained it, "Civil disobedience is an act of political communication." They are using transcendentalism in this modern age by engaging in a "nonviolent direct action and disruption for the purpose of communicating a message." (Rory Varrato)

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Thoreau believed that if there is an unjust law in a free society that the people in that society have the right/obligation to break that law. Civil disobedience is a big part of transcendentalism that Thoreau believed in injustice in a society. He encourages people to to take the initiative to seek out these injustices and put an end to the them or to enact change onto them.

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Thoreau's quote is all about confidence and the action of living how you've always wanted. Thoreau's advice is one that he has taken himself where he has lived how he has imagined himself living out in nature with confidence no regret. In all, he wants you to step out of your shoes and take action without any second thoughts and embrace transcendentalism by the hand as you decide to live by it.

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Boy Scouts organization inaugurates first all-girls troops - by Laura Kelly

This article talks about how girls are now taking action and engaging in self-reliance by joining Boy Scouts in an attempt at getting their Eagle Scout. As Thoreau's first quote suggested, these girls are confidently following their current dreams and engaging in Boy Scouts as they each go on their own path towards Eagle Scout. By the end of their Boy Scout journey, they will be mostly, if not completely self-reliant and independent as they continue on their own path through life.

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This quote suggests Independence and nonconformity. Emerson doesn't want you to be a follower but instead be your own unique person and make your own path. When he says "leave a trail" he wants you to stand out so that you weren't invisible to others but so that you were remembered for your "individualism" and maybe as an example for others to be own person too.

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Civil Disobedience
This video is completely based off of civil disobedience but in a peaceful way. As stated in the video, Thoreau wrote in his book 'Civil Disobedience', to follow your conscience and break the law on moral grounds than to be a cog in an unjust system. Because of that, Thoreau started a chain of peaceful civil disobedience acts that included Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks, MLK, and many more people to continue. As said at the end of the video, "there will always be laws thought to be unjust in every society across the globe", this indicating that there is and always will be transcendentalism everywhere throughout all of time.

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Self-reliance is one of the big main points of transcendentalism. This image here shows self-reliance in three different parts: independence, nonconformity to the community, and minimalist living. This, all together, as shown in the picture below, is like a modern example of how Thoreau lived his life with self-reliance, out in nature, secluded from most people out near Walden pond.

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This image shows Wall-E showing nonconformity since he was designed as a waste-collecting robot, but instead he's out trying to ring life back to earth. Also, this image shows how the two robots are living in and appreciating nature as Thoreau did as a way of practicing transcendentalism. In all, the image shows how Wall-E  and Eve are independents, nonconformists, and appreciative as they practice transcendentalism.

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"Big Yellow Taxi" - Joni Mitchell
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And they put up a parking lot

These lyrics are transcendental by strongly suggesting over and over again throughout the song to appreciate what you have. Emerson lived his life this way by appreciating the nature that was all around him instead of useless material distractions. Today, one way people practice transcendentalism is by preserving forests and parts of nature because if they don't, then as the lyrics state, they will pave away paradise and put up a parking lot.

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"Its My life" - Bon Jovi
No silent prayer for the faith-departed
I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice
When I shout it out loud

These lyrics from "Its My Life" by Bon Jovi represent individualism. When it says "I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd", it talks about being unique and standing out instead of conforming to the community and being/acting the same. The following two phrases also strengthen the previous on by indicating action and confidence.

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At Walden, Thoreau Wasn’t Really Alone With Nature -

By John Kaag and Clancy Martin

This article talks about not only how Thoreau learned self-reliance, but it also describes how the 'outcast' that lived around him also lived too. Brister Freeman (Thoreau's real name) was a black man who learned self reliance after becoming a freed man and learning how to support himself. He ended up embracing spartan living by "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity". Thoreau further understood self-reliance by his definition of to "live deliberately" as said in the article, "In Thoreau’s words, was to wrest oneself from the diversions of this rat race, to understand the difference between the seemingly urgent matters of spending and acquiring and the truly significant ones of caring and thinking." Because of how Thoreau lived his life out near Walden in nature with simplicity and living deliberately, he truly learned to appreciate things and became a true transcendental this way.

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Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

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"Here comes the Sun" - Beatles

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

The lyrics of this song show transcendentalism by talking about a "new beginning". The repetitive phrase, "Here comes the sun", is like a door opening to clearer, happier days. Little darling probably represents lost, but renewed relationship. In all, these lyrics represent Emerson's beliefs of taking action and opening a new door to happiness.

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Emerson's quote explains that what lies ahead or behind us are of little significance because what really matters is our own spirit and talent within us. In other words, the past and future are insignificant because what we may have done in the past doesn't always predict our future, and what we think may come in the future, whether it looks good or bad, can be the complete opposite and completely unpredictable. That's why the only thing that matters is your spirit because that's what'll get you through even the toughest of problems.

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This image shows one of Emerson's main ideas of transcendentalism of how you shouldn't stay confined/enclosed like everyone else, figuratively or physically, but go out and find your own path and see what you yourself can do. This picture also shows how one should go out and live and learn by what nature has to offer you instead of being constantly surrounded by addictive, tempting man-made objects that are really just things you want but don't actually need.