Milagros Walden: The Person Who Changed My Life

Walden Two by B. F. Skinner is considered a modern utopian novel based on behaviorist principle, this is emphasized through the themes of childcare, economic reform, healthcare, clothing and fashion, and freedom which are reflected through the techniques of the dialogues between the characters, the narration, the allusions and the choice of words. In his novel, Skinner presents the theme of childcare at the society of Walden Two and how the children are raised there through using the dialogue technique. He shows how they take care of children from different ages. The way children are raised in Walden Two is a radical departure from traditional societal practice. Children are not raised by their mothers, but by volunteer caretakers in a communal nursery. Castle wonders whether the babies lack mother love, he says

In order to be heard by the government policies speak up for yourself. Speak up and let it be known what you want when you feel it’s right. “Let every man make known what of government would command his respect”. Just like what Thoreau believed to speak up and stand up for your voices to be heard. Thoreau was a man that believed that the government shouldn't be in your life business. Also a man that believed in how he could live by himself in nature and escaped from society. He wanted to be an independent person living a peaceful harmony and nature in which he focused the most on. Life was a waste of time if you rushing it in which he shows in “Walden”. “Lead lives of quiet desperation” meaning his life by living in a simple lifestyle was bringing

In 1854, Henry David Thoreau gave us what would become his most famous non-fiction book, Walden; or life in the Woods. In this, Thoreau describes his project at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau decided that he was going to live “deliberately” in the woods for over two years and live off of a limited economy and isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. But one has to ask the question, what does Thoreau mean that he wants to “live ‘deliberately’”? Thoreau himself said that he wanted to “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”(Thoreau, 61) He wanted

          T.E. Frazier is a former classmate of Burris' at his graduate school,      and is one of the founding members of Walden Two.

Into the Wild, a book about a man who ran away from childhood problems and decided to walk into the wilderness by himself after getting rid of all of his materialistic items like his car and money, and Walden, a book about a man who ran towards simplicity and solitude to understand what life was really about, are two incredible. The stories are timeless and will still be talked about in fifty years. The protagonists, Thoreau and Chris, had their differences and similarities. A big difference between them is their motives for leaving the city and going into the wilderness; Thoreau wanted to live life to the fullest, while Chris wanted to leave the problems at home. Both Chris and Thoreau rejected materialism, and they both respected animals.

In the excerpt of “Walden”, by Henry D. Thoreau, the narrator explains how a person can find the essence of life. In the story, it talks about a person seeking treasures in the forest. The central theme of the story is that to let go of life’s pleasures and seek life’s treasures. The author uses first person point of view to portray his theme.

Busy highways, briefcases, and paychecks. These are few of many sights seen by individuals living the ‘American dream’. It has been established in one’s development to go to school, get good grades, then slip right into college where a degree is earned and a career is cast. In a matter of a few years, one’s life is dictated and the routine of the working man, or woman, is set. Happiness is illustrated through new cars, nice clothes, and the newest phone available on the market—but what is not seen is serenity within one’s self. Thoreau describes the ability to find the true sense and meaning of happiness without all of the materialistic barriers that seem to serve as its guidelines. In Thoreau’s Walden, people are proclaimed for not living life to its full ability by impassively going through everyday routines, mistakable importance of necessities, and the idea of individual purpose.

My grandmother’s parents immigrated to Johnstown, Pennsylvania from a small town in Poland close to Warsaw. As a young child she spoke two languages Polish at home and English when she went to school or with friends. Life started out very difficult and never really got any easier.. Her life continued to get worse when she lost her husband in a mining accident and her eldest son to a car accident. My grandma used to tell me the stories of their deaths, and how it taught her how strong she really is. She turned the hardships in her life into something beautiful, something joyous, and something sentimental. These moments shaped her into who she is, but they do not define her. These moments that she shares allow me to move on and find something joyful about every situation even if they are not be ideal. When my grandfather passed away my grandmother gave me the strength to look on the brighter side of the situation instead of the sad side.

Walden Two is a novel about a fictional community in present day America. The community is a Utopia of the highest standards: the people are happy and content, there is a minimum of hurtful emotions and activities, and everyone is healthy and prosperous. It is a stark contrast with the world we are living in today. So why don't we change our society to match that of Walden Two, solving all of our nation's many problems? For one thing, we do not know if a society patterned after Walden Two will work.

I do not have any shoes on right now because I figured that Walden most likely did not have any shoes on. I hear the bird chirpings. I hear a airplane going across the sky, but I do not see it. It is really sunny and bright. It is mostly a blue sky, with barely a few clouds. There is a little bit of stratus clouds. There is barely any leaves on the trees surrounding me and my house. There is not that much grass on the ground because my stepdad just cut the grass a few days ago. I hear cars going by really fast, with their music bumping loudly. I kind of wish I could listen to my music right now. I hear annoying dogs barking and it is starting to give me a headache. The wind is blowing my hair back and forth and the breeze feels really nice.

Henry David Thoreau published Walden about 160 years ago. Walden contains Thoreau’s report on his experience with solidarity in his cabin on Walden Pond where he stayed for two years, two weeks, and two days. The film, Die Wand, brings up an important question about whether or not one can truly survive, and even thrive, being completely alone. The woman, who remains unnamed, finds herself separated from her friends, and everyone in general, by an invisible wall she cannot penetrate. Although she found herself in despair for a few weeks, she finally manages to thrive and finds reasoning to survive through her animals.

The autobiography “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau is a first-person narrative explaining what Thoreau personally experienced from his experiment after two years of living at Walden Pond, encompassed by nature. Thoreau isolates himself from society and martial earnings to gain a higher understanding of what it means to have freedom as an individual. He simplifies his life to get closer to nature to learn more about himself and society. If we focus too much on obtaining these so-called comforts of life. We blur the fact that these luxuries are a hindrance to self-freedom. In society, if you do not follow the same rhythm as everyone else. You will be seen as an out casting in the community. That is not freedom

I have always been told that success comes from hard work and dedication. If this is true, then we have to take on responsibilities and integrate ourselves into society in order to find our place and leave our mark. For these reasons, I must disagree with the values held in Walden. In Walden, it says, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand…” (383). The main drawback I find in this statement is that living a simple life is complicated in today’s world. In today’s world, food isn’t automatically put on a plate. Houses aren’t given to everybody. Clean water isn’t available at anyone’s convenience. All of these items require a source of money and this money can only come from

On other hands, one of the articles of Springer link, mentioned by Yang, about how Thoreau and his “Walden” influenced the Chinese community in 1955. Walter Harding published an article titled “Thoreau’s Reputation” which expressed how Thoreau had professed the world aside from the United States. In his writing, he indicated that there were translations of different languages. There were Dutch, Russian, Japanese, French, German, Czechoslovakian, Italian as well as Japanese perception of Thoreau and his works in “Walden”. Yang said he was fascinated with how it spread through different countries and was amazed by Thoreau’s influence.

My life has been a crazy roller coaster with many events that have affected my life all in different ways. There have been times where my life has been at its highest peak in the world then it falls down, right into a deep valley. From the time my lovable younger sister came into my life to when my grandpa had a near death experience, I have learned many valuable lessons through the rough times as well as the more happy times. When I was a young girl, my mom had always told me the same thing over and over again. I never really thought about how a few words would have a deep effect on me in a short amount of time.