The Transcendentalist Challenge Project by ADAM NANCE https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7 Made by Adam Nance en-us 2018-10-04 19:00:22 UTC 2024-11-13 10:53:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png 1) A. Walden - "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289352055 "Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering? They are not such poor calculators. If they had not been overcome with drowsiness, they would have performed something. The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive." -Henry David Thoreau]]> 2018-10-04 19:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289352055 1) B. "Walking" 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289357825 "No doubt temperament, and, above all, age, have a good deal to do with it. As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as the evening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour." -Henry David Thoreau]]> 2018-10-04 19:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289357825 1) C. "Nature" 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289357994 "Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." -Ralph Waldo Emerson]]> 2018-10-04 19:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289357994 1) D. "Beauty" 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289358084 "And as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty." -Ralph Waldo Emerson]]> 2018-10-04 19:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289358084 1) E. "Self-Reliance" 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289358331 "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. ... 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]]> 2018-10-04 19:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289358331 2) A. O Me! O Life! 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289358530 "Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." -Walt Whitman
]]> 2018-10-04 19:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289358530 2) B. Dead Poets' Society 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289359402 "Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting."          -Edward Whitacre, Jr.]]> 2018-10-04 19:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289359402 3) Declaration of Self 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289359647 “Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.” -Twyla Tharp]]> 2018-10-04 19:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289359647 4) The Child Lies Awake at Night 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289360040 The child lies awake at night,
Thinking for hours about every part of his life,
Not yet worn down by the grips of somnolence on society.
The school life of classwork, homework, projects, labs;
The church life of mass, class, sundays, sacraments;
The sports life of kicking, running, diving, funning;
The home life of sweeping, mopping, washing, cooking;
This whole life of competing aspects
Which all threaten to take the balance down.
But they don’t!
Not yet, not in the child, for he leaves time to lay awake at night
Thinking for hours about hopes and dreams which live on in his head,
Not yet worn down by the grips of somnolence on society.

But the rest have fallen.
Their hopes and dreams are behind bars,
Taken custody by the inevitable disruption of balance,
For no longer is life in balance.
Balance is gone, 
Somnolence has won,
Society has won.
And yet, hope remains in the children, and in them
Balance is not yet gone,
Somnolence has not yet won,
Society has not yet won, because nature and good still exist.
Hope yet remains 
For the child who lies awake at night.
]]> 2018-10-04 19:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289360040 5) Modern Example of Transcendental Thought: Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289360187 🎵 🎵 🎵 Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, 
older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia 🎵 🎵 🎵
]]> 2018-10-04 19:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289360187 6) #RunningToNewHorizons 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289797160 "I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails." -Rachel Boston]]> 2018-10-05 19:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289797160 7) A. Living Out Transcendentalism: Slowing Life Down at the Beach 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289797376 I take a moment to appreciate the beauty of the beach around me as I reach down to feel the wave-cut rock's smooth surface.]]> 2018-10-05 19:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289797376 7) B. Living Out Transcendentalism: My Own Personal Walden, Sitting Amongst the Trees 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289797672 This is a little spot that I like to do homework at and ruminate on the nature of the world. There are a whirlwind of stimulants to my senses, including the windchime that I am looking at in the picture.]]> 2018-10-05 19:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289797672 7) C. Living Out Transcendentalism: Pondering in the Hills 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289797793 I took a hike in silence with my brother, and we experienced this breathtaking view at the top of the hill of rolling hills and houses speckled in the distance.]]> 2018-10-05 19:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289797793 8) Challenges To Living The Transcendental Tenets 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289798184 For a student, the biggest challenges to living a transcendental life are the current system of education, merely because of the sheer amount of time which it expends, and the onslaught of technology, which, unlike education, provides minimal benefits. Rather, technology is a leech that sucks time away, time that could have instead been sent to the brain to fuel transcendental thought.]]> 2018-10-05 19:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289798184 9) How does Transcendentalism teach people to model themselves after nature in order to become self-reliant individuals who, in turn, are able to fully and positively contribute to society? 328320 https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289798457 Essay begins on Page 10:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CD3jETccOsD691Te9W2usjGEoVlH3v-rbw9--_iZGJc/edit?usp=sharing]]> 2018-10-05 19:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/328320/528g7rw80hn7/wish/289798457