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articles written about it such as “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau which in summary states that if you don’t agree with the society’s opinion, you should form your own and fight for it. Another writing about it is “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson which also basically states that you should follow your heart and not conform to society’s opinions. Both of these writings are ideas that comply with the beliefs of Transcendentalists. Transcendentalists would really think highly of Joe Clark

According to Emerson’s Self-Reliance, “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude after own own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” On the contrary, life during the 19th century was not private or peaceful. Many employees were mistreated and their rights were violated especial during the late 1960s after the Vietnam War. Jimmy Hoffa, the leader of the successful labor union the Teamsters

The original authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Lawrence Sargent Hall, and Jerome David Salinger, presented works inspiring new perspectives and social outlooks upon reality and it’s offerings. Through characterizing the progress of the philosophies, the development of American literature is explained. Transcendentalism describes the idea that knowledge comes through intuition and imagination instead of logic or the senses. In the essay, Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, he begins it with the

plant as an ultimate savior for humans and planet earth, while the captain still sees the earth as trash and tries to destroy it more. The way people look at nature varies. As Emerson says: “Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man or in a harmony of both” (Emerson 390). Emerson says that it’s something from within people that shows the beauty and charm of nature. Nature surpasses the harshness of the world and brings out the beauty for what the earth

was often shown in transcendentalist's works by insisting that oneself must be self-reliant. Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson was a key leader in the Transcendental movement. In his work, "Self-Reliance", Emerson advocated self-reliance when he wrote "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, --that is genius" (1334). In this piece, Emerson also preached "Insist of yourself; never imitate" (1348) to his readers. He believed that an individual

year of 1836 by the founding father Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1836, he published an essay by the name of “Nature,” which reiterated the attention of many writers and philosophers who believed in the same concepts. Many of the church followers during this time were upset with the way the church was functioning, so they turned to nature and Emerson’s ideas. Consequently, he created a club where people of his fashion and intellectual could meet and share beliefs. Emerson named the club the “Transcendental

The Influence of Transcendentalism in Emerson and McCandless Transcendentalism is a philosophy in which individuals must rely on their intuition rather than reason. Christopher McCandless, a young man who died from starvation in an attempt to survive “in the wild,” to escape his past life, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leader of the Transcendental movement, both reflect the philosophy of Transcendentalism through their life and literary works, respectively. A basic premise of Transcendentalism is

this ideal. One example of the romanticism ideal of celebrating individuality was “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this essay, Emerson especially focused on not going with the social flow and discovering life for yourself. “Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist” (Emerson 362). Nonconformity means to not believe what everybody else believes just because everybody believes it. Emerson portrayed that every human being should challenge societal norms and discover their own path of living

Transcendentalism /ˌtran(t)ˌsenˈden(t)lˌizəm/ noun A philosophical belief that the most important aspects of life are based off of a spiritual way of thinking, rather than what is thought by society. “I went to the woods because I wished 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 had lived.”-Henry David Thoreau Thoreau believed humans live their lives too complicated and society

The dictionary defines the term outlier as “a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system”. In both Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”, a person being an outlier is something that is a fairly common thing. The term outlier is consequently the theme of Gladwell’s “Outliers”, whereas in Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”, being an outlier means not conforming to society's norms. Emerson’s