https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik By: Ralph Waldo Emerson en-us 2021-12-03 16:53:47 UTC 2025-03-14 20:00:16 UTC hello@padlet.com jdavilavela2503 https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1927795604 Sometimes even the most childish of characters truly embody what it means to seek self-reliance. Disney's Inside Out has one character who truly embodies this idea. She tries to find her purpose and her role within both her family sphere and the public sphere, a journey that is truly difficult within the constantly changing world of a young girl. Her constant pursuit of independence, which in the end turns into a dangerous stunt to remove herself from her home, proves her constant desire to find her own path. With so much pressure from many outside factors, she ends up finding that although she wants to be her own individual person who can make her own choices, she is often better suited to follow her parents' lead and continue being loyal to the life she has grown up in. 

- "These voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world."
- "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string"]]> 2021-12-03 17:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1927795604 jdavilavela2503 https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1927818031 A song that embodies this perspective on self-reliance is "Counting Stars" By OneRepublic. The song, which talks about the struggles of life and having to create hopes and dreams to find purpose and escape the struggles themselves, is connected to having the personal freedom to create your path. One striking section of the song is:
"Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
On just doing what we're told"
This section is similar to the Self-Reliance's "Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." Both the song and the sentence from Emerson highlight that even the most influential and successful people have to follow paths and dreams without the approval of others. They are all different in their respective ways and didn't give towards accomplishing their mission. The song takes the idea to a different level by claiming that sometimes all we do is follow the world and what society tells us but following our individual dreams tends to help foster new paths that lead to success and much less worry about the world we live within.]]> 2021-12-03 17:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1927818031 jdavilavela2503 https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1927836565 With many of the listed names of role models and leaders who paved the way in their own respective ways, all while being criticized and written off by society, it is also very interesting to see how many more names could be included in that list from times much closer to ours. These include Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, and Mother Teresa, who all took a stance towards something they found wrong in their societies and paved a new road that had impacted us. Specifically on Martin Luther King Jr., many saw his protests, that were often with the intent of creating unity through peace interactions, as threats to the somehow "indestructible" culture that had been created to oppose the true freedom and equality of African Americans. Even when many people got in his way towards accomplishing his goals of a peaceful society, he continued giving all his efforts to see a world where the color of your skin did not make a negative impact on individuals. In a nation in which all people of all backgrounds live together without major conflict on the basis of skin color, it has truly been appreciated the way in which King Jr.'s visions have created a much better society. The intent and progress that he gave his entire life for has created the great country we live in, something he never would have imagined happening. ]]> 2021-12-03 17:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1927836565 jdavilavela2503 https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1927848437 "Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater; The virtue in most request  is conformity."

The quote emphasizes that society in which people are confronted with keeping everyone neutral and preserve the ideals of the conglomerate. There is little progress and little change towards success because of its members hesitancy to challenge its faults. By making the comparison to a joint-stock company, where the employees all own a chunk of the stock of said company, he emphasizes the diminished power we as members of a "bigger" team when different interest each pull to different ways. As a society we much rather evade the progress on issues that impact all of us than tackle them and find ways to compromise towards a viable and fair solution. This is where many of those who share Transcendentalist views step in and claim that this proves the need for natural autonomy of us humans in order to prevent such issues. Our selfish yet dependent nature have led us commodity rather than progress and change.]]> 2021-12-03 17:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1927848437 jdavilavela2503 https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1932762884 McCandless, who in his very own journal entries had claimed he was heavily inspired by the transcendentalist movement, really took action towards finding a way to become more connected with nature. Even coming from a good background with good education and access to resources, he declined his comfortable life to become more connected with nature and the wild. This decision is one not many take, seen even less with those who have everything to keep them "happy", the very idea he seems to challenge. His strange pursuit of being closer with the natural world, which led to have the life of a nomad, in a way exemplified the true purpose of many of those who take a similar path, expand the knowledge of one's self and understand how our role within nature through interacting with it ourselves. For him, in order to understand how humans function in our complex society, it is necessary to see their role within the natural world. With his indirect involvement with an environment that seemed foreign to his, he becomes aware of the actual application of the principles laid out by major Transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]> 2021-12-07 05:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jdavilavela2503/b4olicmhfwi51ik/wish/1932762884