https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225 Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, and Henry Hedge. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity, and urged that each person find, in Emerson's words, “an original relation to the universe." Emerson and Thoreau sought this relation in solitude. 1. Copy and paste your first line of your paper. 2. Copy and paste your thesis. en-us 2017-11-28 13:15:40 UTC 2017-12-04 16:52:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/notebook.jpg https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212926639 Transcendentalism=Transcendental-cool]]> 2017-12-04 16:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212926639 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212926968 First Line- The human condition is an ever-flowing stream of consistency that bends, widens, and twists at the whim of human nature. 

Thesis Statement- ]]> 2017-12-04 16:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212926968 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927183 Transcendentalists believe that all knowledge begins with oneself, and an individual is the spiritual center of everything. 


]]> 2017-12-04 16:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927183 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927487 2017-12-04 16:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927487 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927590 From childhood, we are often taught to treat others as we wish to be treated. This belief of kindness implies that we are interconnected and __. This idea is shown in Transcendentalist Walt Whiman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider." In this piece,
Walt Whitman shows his beliefs of transcendentalism through his poem by showing values of one's soul, courage,  and patience. 

The balance of both being connected and discluded. ]]> 2017-12-04 16:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927590 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927735   Transcendentalism was a literary movement that gained popularity in the 1800s. 

 In Walden, Henry David Thoreau uses allusion, parallelism, and word choice to explain why he is a transcendentalist. ]]> 2017-12-04 16:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927735 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927940 1. During the 1830's and 1840's, Ralph Waldo Emerson and a couple of his friends got together and soon became known as the "Transcendental Club". 
2. An excerpt from "Nature", a respected piece by Ralph Waldo Emerson, shows a great amount of transcendentalism through his sentence structure, individualism, and his love for nature.]]> 2017-12-04 16:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212927940 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212928784 As Americans, we value the idea of being free. ]]> 2017-12-04 16:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212928784 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212929430 1."...though the wide universe  is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. " This is quite obviously a metaphor, the way i interpret it is society can be good, but nothing comes easily, and nothing is going to chance unless you put that change into motion. 2. This piece  is Transcendentalist like because it falls back on the idea that all you have is yourself and in Self-Reliance Emerson uses metaphors to connect to nature.]]> 2017-12-04 16:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212929430 gedeonk https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212930422 First line- Walt Whitman was one of the poets of the transcendental period. 
Thesis statement- In Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider" it addresses nature, society, and the divines.]]> 2017-12-04 16:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212930422 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212931406 2017-12-04 16:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212931406 https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212934588 first line-
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Thesis - Ralph Emerson's "Self Reliance" emphasizes these Transcendentalist practices and even impacts American society today.]]> 2017-12-04 16:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212936192 mcdougallj https://padlet.com/mcdougallj/vw5dbgvef225/wish/212937426


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