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1
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Graduated from Harvard?

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Thoreau

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Wrote Billy Bud?

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Herman Melville

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3
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Author of self reliance and nature?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Became a teacher but was fired?

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Thoreau

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Is best known as a philosopher?

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Emerson

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Wrote the Minister’s Black Veil?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Utopias?

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“Perfect communities” that sprang up during this time of perfection

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Know who Immanuel Knat?

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He was a German philosopher and his trans ideas were derived from him

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Know about the transparent eyeball? What is it? Why do we need it?

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He becomes transparent because he is ONE with nature. Nature can not make this feeling alone man must use his experiences, senses, and feelings of emotion.

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The 2 things self reliance are supposed to teach?

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Trust thyself and Every person has a unique and special purpose

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Know Thoreau’s works? List them?

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Civil Disobedience and Walden

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Know 2 of Emerson’s jobs/trades?

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Poet and Philosopher

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Know what a anti-transcendentalist thought of transcendentalists?

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Thought that Transcendentalist has a much too rosy outlook on life

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Know the narrator and captain of moby dick and what they are seeking?

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Captain Ahab and Narrator is Ishmael

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Name 3 transcendentalist beliefs?

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  1. Believed that nature was a doorway to a mystical world that held the most important truths.
  2. American Transcendentalist were idealist but in a practical sense.
  3. Draws ideas from the Buddhist thought
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Know the 2 most well known anti transcendentalists?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

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List 2 anti transcendentalists beliefs?

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  1. Nature is indifferent, unforgiving, and often unexplainable.
  2. People possess the potential for both good and evil.
18
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Died poor despite his writing career?

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Herman Melville

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Was ashamed of puritan hypocrisy?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

20
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Wrote an estimated 1,775 poems?

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Emily Dickinson

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Was an epic poet?

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Walt Whitman

22
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Wrote success in counted sweetest?

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Emily Dickinson

23
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Dressed in white?

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Emily Dickinson

24
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Is known for song of myself?

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Walt Whitman

25
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Was in love with 2 married men?

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Emily Dickinson

26
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Was ashamed of puritan hypocrisy?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

27
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Know what transcendentalists believe about men?

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They were inherently good

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Know why Thoreau went into the woods?

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To live deliberately

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The minister’s black veil symbolic for and was it successful for the minister?

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everyone wears a black veil, that everyone has a secret sin or sorrow that is hidden from all others. No, because people in the town started to spread rumors about him and why he had the black veil over his face. They thought that he was trying to hide something like his sins

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In civil disobedience Thoreau introduced the idea of passive resistance. What was the essay a reaction to?

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It was a reaction to the Mexican War. He thought that president Polk went ahead and provoked war without getting congressional approval

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While emerson and thoreau are both famous transcendentalists, they both took a different approach to the ideals. Which of these 2 men was more of a transcendentalists?

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Thoreau was definitely more of a transcendentalist because he actually lived out what he wrote about. He believed everything he wrote. He didn’t mind getting thrown in jail, because he stood up for what he thought was right. Emerson mainly wrote about nature but didn’t actually act it out in his everyday life, Thoreau did. Thoreau actually went out and lived within nature while writing one of his novels.

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While Emerson and Thoreau are both famous transcendentalists, they both took a different approach to the ideals. Which of these 2 men was more of a transcendentalists?

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Thoreau was definitely more of a transcendentalist because he actually lived out what he wrote about. He believed everything he wrote. He didn’t mind getting thrown in jail, because he stood up for what he thought was right. Emerson mainly wrote about nature but didn’t actually act it out in his everyday life, Thoreau did. Thoreau actually went out and lived within nature while writing one of his novels.

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