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5. When you are through reading, post a 1-2 paragraph response to each piece of writing to your blog. Be sure to concentrate more on what you thought of each piece of writing. Try to include at least one piece of direct evidence with each response (remember standard #1). This should be something that stuck out to you about the particular piece of writing.



"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson



Well for nature it was a little hard to understand it but what I understood was that the writer was talking about all the special things about nature. The writing was alright and it was interesting but it wasn’t hard for me to understand it because I was really attracted to it.



Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like this story better because it was shorter. I also liked it because I understood it better and found every thing much easier most of all it was different. The themes in this story were put better into words and were easy to find.



6. Next, write explain how each piece is a good example of Transcendentalism by identifying the central themes I described earlier in the post. Use what you read above, and prove that each piece is a good example with a paragraph supported with direct evidence (one paragraph each)


direct evidence (one paragraph each)

"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the themes is that god spoke through peoples mind and their hard work, and it says it in the stories. When the men is talking about the farms and how beautiful they are and the hard work the farmers put into there work. It also talks about another theme in which it says that the human mind is one of the most powerful things in the world and that all the mind were connected through "oversoul". It talks about it saying how the men imagined the stars and what would happened to them if they came in a thousand years.

"Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this story it brings one of the themes very clear to the reader. It talks bout humans representing the hard work it says that a man is relieved and gay when he puts his heart into his work and he has done his best. Another of the themes represented in the story is that peoples mind is a powerful instrument to the transcendentalist. It explains that when it talks about how all the cultures is different and how humans do their best to make more secure places for each other.

7. How can you apply Transcendental philosophy to the man in this video? I'm sure you could easily spend a couple paragraphs telling me how. I also know it would be easy for you to back up whatever you say with direct evidence from the texts you have already read.