https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37 Emerson project en-us 2017-11-27 21:20:39 UTC 2017-11-27 21:51:53 UTC hello@padlet.com bmatthews4288 https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210672973 Lee Brice's song Love Like Crazy seems to take inspiration from Emerson's theory of self-reliability. The lyrics "Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you,Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense" can be paralleled to Emerson's idea that a man is truly happy when he knows he has one his best on a certain task or goal.]]> 2017-11-27 21:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210672973 bmatthews4288 https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210673626 Shrek has many of the qualities stated in Emerson's self reliance. He accepts the hand that life has dealt him, and lives happily when he has been place. He is also a non-conformist, doing things that human society would greatly disapprove of.]]> 2017-11-27 21:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210673626 bmatthews4288 https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210676121 Alan Turing was a genius mathematician in Britain during WWII, and was hired to help crack the nazi code 'Enigma'. He was initially scoffed at and mocked but eventually built the world's first computer that practically won the allied forces the war. Yet, the computer was destroyed at the end of the war and Turing's accomplishments were kept hidden for over 30 years. Turing himself was arrested for his homosexuality, and commited suicide a year later. Today we recognize him as a math genius and the inventor of the modern day computer.]]> 2017-11-27 21:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210676121 bmatthews4288 https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210678305 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,"]]> 2017-11-27 21:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210678305 bmatthews4288 https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210678702 I don't think a society could ever fully contain individualists. As humans we by nature want to relate to other people and we feel the need to be introduced to what they think and what they like. This would prevent every person from being 100% their own person, although that is not a bad thing. Friendships and relationships are built on people having things in common, and that would be difficult in a society of individualists.]]> 2017-11-27 21:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bmatthews4288/82mhbdp1mo37/wish/210678702