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"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." -Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Spongebob lives a pretty simple easy life in the Bikini Bottom. He wakes up every day and just gets to mess around with his friends. The only real problem he has is dealing with Plankton. Most people would love to have as easy of a life as Spongebob just sitting at home or at the Krusty Crab all day. Spongebob's troubles are caused by himself most of the time. If you only had to worry about problems that you yourself cause, you hopefully wouldn't have to worry about much. Spongebob might have some crazy things happen to him, but really none of those situations affect him all that much.
The quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson shows how you yourself affect how simple your life is. You can control how honest you are and how good of a person you are. If you aren't good to others, than you will find yourself in trouble like Spongebob did sometimes. You have a lot of control over how simple your life is, and Spongebob had even more control over his simple life than a normal person.

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“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” -Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Tide Pod Challenge was a great example of people doing things based on intuition instead of reason. It seems like fun and games until you realize that eating a Tide Pod can hurt you. Many people did the challenge to be cool or because someone dared them. They didn’t think about it at all or use any reasoning. You don’t need too much reason to figure out that this challenge was just a dumb idea. Sometimes people do things without thinking to try to get attention or to be cool, and this challenge is a great example of that.

Every person thinks differently and has more or less trust in themselves. Each person’s “string” is a different thing, and some people’s strings involve needing attention. This challenge was a great way for people to try to be funny and get people to notice them. It may not have been a good or safe thing, but people still did it nevertheless. Some people might also just have a huge belief in themselves that they will never get hurt which could cause them to do this challenge. The Tide Pod Challenge showed us many crazy people who did a stunt without thinking.

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Tide Pod Challenge

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“The virtue of most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.” -Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self-reliance is a defining trait that some people have. Lebron James is a very self reliant person. Lebron has made many decisions throughout his life that have shown his self reliance. He is a hometown Cleveland boy, and when he decided to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the first time he was just about the only person he could rely on. There were even Cavaliers fans who burned his jersey after he left. Lebron then decided to come back to Cleveland to win his hometown a championship. Coming back to a place where people are very mad at you takes a lot of relying on yourself. Most people just want to fit in and not rely on themselves like Ralph Waldo Emerson says. Lebron has lived a life defying the odds and going against many people. Lebron really has no one to ask for advice cause not many people receive as much attention and scrutiny as he does. Without his reliance and belief in himself he would never have been successful in doing what he has done.

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The Lorax is a great example of someone trying to save nature and someone who respects it. The Lorax wants to save the truffula trees from the people trying to cut them down. He wanted to help save the nature that they had even though almost no one else did. He worked hard to convince people that they needed to save the trees which ended up working. Without the Lorax all of the trees and the nature would have been lost. It takes a lot of belief in something to stand up for it, and the Lorax had enough belief to stand up for the trees.

The Lorax tried his hardest to save the trees that he knew were important. He lived by himself out with the trees, and that gave him time to think hard about the tree issue. He had good reasoning for why they should not cut all the trees down. Without his faith towards the trees he loved the trees probably would have been lost forever.  In nature we oftentimes think deeply and about issues we are facing. The Lorax did just this, and that led to the trees being saved.

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“In the woods, we return to reason and faith.”-Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Donald Trump has been a very controversial president of the United States so far. He is much different than any other president we’ve had. He doesn’t conform at all to the normal rules that most presidents have followed. He is very outspoken about basically any topic, and he tries to draw attention to himself. He also has many tweets that have caused uproars throughout all of American society. He wants to keep certain people outside of our country, and he doesn’t like people who are against him.

Donald Trump exemplifies this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson very well. He is trying to change American society, and he is making it less acceptable of people who are different. Trump might be the first president ever who has had so many people like him a lot, but also so many who hate him. Each member of America has an opinion on Trump because he runs this country much different than any other president. Trump is trying to get people to follow his ideas, and he is very stubborn about not changing for anyone.

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“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”-Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Spongebob

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Tide Pod Challenge

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Lebron James

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Donald Trump

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The Lorax