Transcendentalism Project by DESIREE KASSAB https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8 en-us 2021-10-07 16:05:32 UTC 2023-06-04 04:47:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 1A: Quote: "Where I Lived..." 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1800567936 “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” 
-Henry David Thoreau]]> 2021-10-07 17:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1800567936 1B: Quote: "Walking" 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804533020 “I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least- and it is commonly more than that- sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.” 
-Henry David Thoreau]]> 2021-10-09 20:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804533020 1C: Quote: "Nature" 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804538387 “Standing on the bare ground- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson]]> 2021-10-09 20:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804538387 1D Quote: "Beauty" 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804591242 “The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, -the totality of nature; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty “il piu nell’ uno.” Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing is but beautiful in the whole.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson]]> 2021-10-09 21:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804591242 1E: Quote: "Self Reliance" 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804596288 “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]]> 2021-10-09 21:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804596288 2A: Dead Poet Society Response 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804758831 Both the film Dead Poet Society and Walt Whitman's poem center on the theme of discovering one's true meaning in life. Mr. Keating in the Dead Poet Society extends to his students, "Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary." He educates that one should take advantage of all opportunities provided to them and make the most of the present moment. He encourages throughout the film that his students rebel against the standards expected by society and live with purpose. Likewise, Whitmans poem relays that rather than choosing to blend in with the crowd, one should find purpose in life through individuality. Both display key tenets of transcendentalism, self-reliance and independence. ]]> 2021-10-10 01:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1804758831 2B: Dead Poet Society Striking Element 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806084103 Mr. Keatings philosophy, "Carpe diem" (seize the day), is meant to encourage his students to live life to the fullest despite the opinion of others; this corresponds to the emphasis transcendentalist thinkers have placed on self-reliance and individuality.]]> 2021-10-10 21:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806084103 3: What Will My Verse Be? A Declaration of Self 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806109740 I aspire to contribute to my world through acts of service. I declare that in my lifetime I shall help the unprivileged, the needy, those with limited resources, the destitute, the discriminated, and ultimately all those who will benefit from my aid. My verse will be facilitated through the employment of my heart, my body, and my brain; these elements will only strengthen as I grow older and wiser. Within each age I will succor within my resources. As a child I helped others with kind words and good deeds. As a teen I will do good work through volunteering and participating in community service. As an adult, I will contribute to my world through medicine. I intend to make use of every fragment of knowledge obtained in my lengthy education to provide remedy to the hurt, the sick, and inflicted. Only then will the long hours and dedication be merited. This is my verse. ]]> 2021-10-10 21:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806109740 4: Poem: The Busy of My Day 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806141676 I often find myself overwhelmed 
With the busy of my day
If only the clock granted me the hour 
I’d reflect on this dismay
Not the hour, not the minute, not the second 
Finds my way
I wish to break from this cycle
But the luxury is in delay
Life, expectations, and structure
It’s quite habitual to say

When privileged with the hour, the minute, even the second of relief 
A scant of interruption from the busy of my day
None of it shall be wasted 
Inside the dwelling where i stay
Company is furnished within the fields, the plants, the sun
Only but in nature is where I wish to frolic and to play
However limited this sanctuary may be to me
In nature I am at last feeling gay
Within the fields, the plants, the sun
I am free, and I am away
Within the fields, the plants, the sun
I have transcended from the busy of my day

]]> 2021-10-10 22:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806141676 5: Modern Day Transcendentalist Thought 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806179986 2021-10-10 22:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806179986 6: #feelingsmalllivingbig 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806207983 2021-10-10 23:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806207983 7C 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806222866 2021-10-10 23:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806222866 7B 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806226983 2021-10-10 23:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806226983 7A 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806231460 2021-10-10 23:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1806231460 8: Modern Challenges to Transcendentalism 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1812879876 2021-10-13 04:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1812879876 9: Essay Thesis and Quotes of Insight 3530961 https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1813310094 Thesis: Transcendentalism teaches people to look towards nature as a divine teacher in the context of critical thinking and self-reliance, in order to be fully connected to oneself and find essential knowledge that will enable these individuals to engage in the spirit of reform and progressiveness. 

Quotes of Insight: 
-"If all people in society were self-reliant, and no one could be influenced by institutions of corruption, the human race could begin to build a society structured on goodness."
-"Analysis of transcendentalism concludes that while it’s advocates acknowledged a diverse array of principles, they were all interrelated and built off one another. Initially, the subjects of nature and societal reform appear to share no correspondence, yet transcendentalists saw individualism in the light of both contexts."]]> 2021-10-13 08:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/3530961/3nqqmrijdeucl5u8/wish/1813310094