A Social Study: Finding People Through A Lens

Additionally, Royal gives clarification for Native Americans’ positive stereotypes. He explains, “ But this is far from modern concepts of ecology. Native Americans in fact overhunted deer and beaver even before the arrival of the white man, and did not seriously try to preserve the resources in the vicinity of their villages. As a result, the typical woodland village, having exhausted local soil and game, had to move on average every eight to 10 years” (Royal 47). Although the Native Americans did not destroy the environment like Europeans on such a large scale, they are not trying to protect the environment either. This opposes the stereotypes that Native Americans are model ecologists. Royal also examines the inhumane sides of Native American tribes. Royal reveals, “The

In North America, the people of the Plains built a way a life on the fertile lands that spanned from Southern Canada to Texas, from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River. This is where the buffalo thrived. The Plains people depended on the buffalo and even developed a hunting technique while others settled in villages, choosing instead to grow crops. But as time went on and the European settlers pushed westward and threatened the way of life not just for the Plains people, but for all Native Americans. In particular, the settlers shamelessly skinned millions of buffalo and sent them into extinction. While they claimed it was for the buffalo's fur, others saw it as the deliberate destruction of a species that was a crucial resource to

When one reads Walden carefully, one can find many of the characteristics of Romanticism in it. In from Where I Lived and What I Lived For the idea that Thoreau shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature is evident in that he seeks to live alone in the woods. As he puts it,

Now that one has taken a closer look into some norms and exceptions of a North American foraging society, one has a better understanding of their mode of livelihood, marriage beliefs and practices, descent and residence, children, division of labor, tools, and political organization. Foraging is the oldest form of livelihood and much can still be learned through continuous study of indigenous foragers in a modern world. Unfortunately, through the continued evolution of technology, high consumerism, and man’s unwillingness to change their existence habits the earth’s environment and the Lincüt Lapak villagers are forever changed due to the results of global warming on the earth’s ecosystems.

Within the passage of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, it demonstrates multiple examples of Romanticism. The concepts being mentioned are ideas about going transcending ordinary societal beliefs, following ones’ intuition, and creating a new moral law.

“A great many phenomena of the present day- nationalism, existentialism, admiration for great men, admiration for impersonal institution, democracy, totalitarianism- are profoundly affected by the rise of Romanticism, which enters them all (Berlin). Romanticism rejected much of the logic and order of Neoclassicism and earlier periods. Instead of searching in past models for universal values, Romantic artists looked inside themselves to discover the truth. Romanticism is the cultivated individualism. This paper will examine the values held by individuals and groups within the romanticism culture, and the similar and difference between the romanticism values and today’s traditional American values.

American Romanticism is a journey away from the corruption of civilization and the limits of rational thoughts, and toward the integrity of nature and the freedom of imagination. In other words, it is a journey away from industrialism or rationalism, which is working hard and earning money. This movement, originally started in Europe and later reached in America. It can be best defined as a thought that values feeling and intuition over reason. Some of the characteristics include the importance of feeling and intuition over reason, placing faith in inner experience and the power of imagination, preferring youthful innocence over educated sophistication, finding beauty and reality in exotic locales. It encouraged people to enjoy the integrity of nature and freedom of imagination. It also encouraged one to have faith in imagination and inner experience. In addition, romanticists found inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture and found poetry as the highest expression of imagination. Romanticists believed that the landscape was regarded as an extension of the human personality, capable of sympathy with man 's emotional state, whereas nature was regarded as a vehicle for spirit just as man; the breath of God fills both man and the earth. However, romantics would create chaos when the issues were connected with human rights, individualism, and freedom from oppression (Arpin 138-150).

The Romantic era began in 1770, with its peak being from 1800 to 1850. With emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a result of the Enlightenment period, which heavily placed values upon reason and order. Thus, Romanticism depends heavily on “the practical accomplishments of the prior un-Romantic era— a relationship between material wealth and scientific knowledge on one hand, and personal, spiritual, or emotional transcendence on the other, that twenty-first century Americans continue to manage.” The simplest explanation for what is Romantic is “‘anything but the here and now’ or whatever is not realistic” (“Romanticism”). The

The Romantic Movement, or period, was from the year 1828 to about 1865. The main feature of the American Romantic period was the celebration and praise of individualism. This time is also considered to be the first period of genuine American creativity. Emotion, instead of reason, became the largest source of inspiration and creativity during this period. All of this was a reaction to all of the constraints that were forced on people during the era of Realism. At this time in history, America was in a great period of expansion, the writers of the American Romantic period were discovering that could create a new and vastly different voice for this new era in

American Romanticism was the first full-fledged literary movement that developed in the U.S. it was made up of a group of authors who wrote and published between around 1820-1860, when the U.S. was still finding it’s feet as a new nation. Although it hadn’t known any national boundaries. The basic idea for this is in Romanticism is that reason cannot explain everything. In reaction to the cult of nationality that was Enlightenment, Romanticism had searched for deeper appeals. This had led romantics to view things with a different trick that the Enlightenment thinkers. This was a time period where romantics revolted against the “age of reason”. They had celebrated nature, imagination, and intuition. Also the American Romanticism is written in

Finally, to think that this romanticism fiesta all began in the eighteen hundreds in the influence of moral scene. first to be found in the the works of Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Jefferson, it is most evident in the gothic and sentimental fictions that flourished in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is customary, however, to date the official beginning of American Romanticism from the rise of Bostonian "transcendentalism" in the

Early Romantics drew their inspiration from nature and concentrated individualism, emotional identity, and the basic elements of imagination in their literature. Reflections of the American growth and struggle prevailed through their writing as most Romantics were advocates for human rights. This can be seen in William Cullen Bryant’s 1817 poem “Thanatopsis” as it aided in establishing Romanticism in American literature during the mid-19th century.

The Romantic Movement, or the American Renaissance, originated in Germany. This period spread to England, France, and reached America in the early 1800’s. Just as in Europe a new light was shed on the artistic and intellectual circles. However in America romanticism corresponded with national expansion and the discovery of American voice. The foundation of national identity, the rising of idealism, and the passion of Romanticism fostered the “American Renaissance. (Outline of American Lit.)

Romanticism took place in the early 1800's, it focused on the evolution and the effects nature has upon the universe. This time period helped grasp imagination, emotions, symbolism, and focus on the individual of one's self. I will be evaluating the authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne to demonstrate how their works relate to the time era of the 18th century.

Early Romantics were inspired by the beauty of America. Since America was newly separated from Britain at the time American romantic writers often displayed that by showing individuality and steering away from the strict form of British writing. Writers of this time focused on individuality and tended to put an emphasis on romanticism and emotion rather than realism.