Made simple

E.B. White once wrote in A Slight Sound of Evening “The book is like an invitation to life’s dance.” Walden by Henry David Thoreau and Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville depict the life’s path from two opposing perspectives. The Transcendentalist ideas shown throughout the work of Walden present a more suitable model for adolescents because, it teaches the youth to make the most out of life by attempting to stand out and be unconventional. Henry David Thoreau uses many points to persuade

It was not until 2016 had I then discover the merit of DECA through school announcements and the excitement expressed by former participants. DECA offered the golden opportunity for me to step out of my comfort zone and develop the self-confidence, leadership, and communication skills that I lacked since I have always been more of a reserved individual, and moving into a new city did not help. So, in Grade 11, I finally gathered the courage to enroll in the Hospitality and Tourism category in a team

that the Amish are just people who drive horses and buggies, but there’s so much more to them than that. “The Amish are a church, a community, a spiritual union, a conservative branch of Christianity, a religion, a community whose members practice simple and austere living, a familistic entrepreneuring system, and an adaptive human community” (Hostetler 4). I believe this quote expresses what the Amish religion really is. Amish was founded in Europe over 280 years ago. Eventually, they migrated

clothing apparel and food. The name itself in Japanese translates to “no-brand quality goods”. In the image below is an image with simple packaging which MUJI is known for, MUJI wants the consumer to cherish more of the product than the packaging itself. The story starts in 1980 when MUJI was founded. MUJI was founded because of the manufacturing process with creating simple, low-cost, good quality products. The simplicity would yield the ultimate universality to embrace the feelings and thoughts of

I will show this by doing a close reading of section 13 and detailing the claims made by Nietzsche throughout book 1. In section 13, Nietzsche begins by saying, “But let us come back: the problem of the other origin of “good,” of the good one was conceived by the man of ressentiment, demands its conclusion.” (Section 13, 25). Here

However, in this case, my pains were their own reward.” This “pain” is written to be a reward for Thoreau. The reward that is received is the reward of hard work and learning. Even though Thoreau had a very low job in the journalism industry, and made many works for the business, many never saw the light of day. What is understood though, is that he was not very angry or disappointed with the results, but instead found a sort of happiness or “reward”. Through understanding, Thoreau

Living Simply Throughout the book “Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, Thoreau argues that living a simple life leads to spiritual independence as well as the freedom from the grind of everyday life. Thoreau emphasizes the fact that simple life enables you to live life instead of merely existing. In order to argue his point, he left his existing lifestyle to live in the woods, provide for himself, saunter, and write daily in his journal. His project was then compiled into short

I, Henry David Thoreau, have came upon your article that questions my beliefs of nature and my way of life. You have proclaimed statements that do not fit me so such as being sanctimonious, hypocritical, and misanthropic, and for those reasons, you think I should not be as admired as I am today. However, I disagree because my teachings and beliefs are all in the name of the divinity of nature. There is much more to this world than our materialistic values and complex lifestyle and if we were just

blue"(line 29). She was describing her own simple life that she didn’t needed to waste money on trivial stuff that doesn’t worth the money that’s going to

Background Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, in Concord Massachusetts. Thoreau was many things, not simply just a writer; but he was one of the most influential writers America knows today. Early on in his life he grew up in a simple home with hard-working parents, and an abundance of siblings. His father and mother both had worked as teachers as well as investing in many other trades to get by. Henry started developing his talent for writing early on, by age ten he had written his first