Transcendentalist

.The Transcendentalist were romantics who apopted philosophies from many other places and cultures.

. They believed that the individual human mind was one of the most powerful instruments in the world.

In the story Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson this story is talking about nature and what nature is, he is talking about how nature can be poetic he is also talking bout how god speaks through peoples mind for example if he is walking through the woods and he comes acoss a river and he doesn't see anyone and he can't talk so he is thinking that god would speak to him through his mind, and he also believes that nature brings him closer to god. He talks about how nature is not like man nature never has a mean apperance and how nature is poetical, he thinks that only few people see the sun and that the sun shines in the heart of a child and those who love nature. He also talks about how you can go out into nature when you are stressed and depressed, and somehow the nature will give you comfort. The direct evidence for this paragraph is when he says nature always wears the colors of the sprit.

I think this is a good example of transcendentalism because this story was talking about how nature speaks to you and when you are alone in nature god would speak to you through your mind, Ralph Waldo believed when you were alone and you couldn't see or hear anything but nature speaking to you that was considered hard work and god would approve of that because it brings you closer to god.

Self-reliance was basically talking about how you should listen to your self because everybody has a brain and they should make their own decisions, he is teling you to trust your self and don't listen to everyone else, he feels if you don't listen to your self or feel good about your self you should classify your self as the man you see on the wall (shadow). He feels you should speak what you think in hard words today and also tomorrow he feels that those who don't believe in themselves or speak what they mean they will surely be misunderstood. Direct evidence is when he says " There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the belief that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better or for worse."
I think this is a good example of transcendentalism because he feels you should speak what you think and not what someone else thinks and thats the reason god gave all of us a brain, to think for ourselves and not for others, he feels that for those who don't speak for themselves will be misunderstood i think god wants all of us to listen to out intellectual spirits and not those of others.

He is talking about the government and what he expects out of the government, he feels that the government does not care and is not concerned with the will of others and that their will would be abused and perverted. He also feels that the Mexican war was lead on by a few individuals using the government as a excuse to carry on the war. He thinks that the American government is a tradition. He feels that with the government choosing war it is not helping the country become free or it does not educate. He believed that he didn't need the government in his life because he believed that god speaks through people's mind and he didn't need them makind decisions for him he also believed that people should make their own decisions not the government making them for them. He was against slavery he would not pay his property taxes because he felt all they were going to do with his money was invest it into slavery and he was not going for that. He went to jail for a night because he refused to pay his taxes with the war going on and all everybodies taxes was going up to help pay for the war and slavery.

I think this is a good piece of writing because he is talking about the government and how he feels about the government i agree with him for not wanting to pay his taxes or to help with the war i think he felt like it was bad for people to pay taxes to watch slavery continue he feels that the government is not needed because god will lead you and thats the only guidance that you will need, it is a good example of transcendentalism because he was a very hard worker he was a entrepreneur and he did what he thought was right in god's point of view which was not to contribute to the war and slavery but to go with what you thought was right.





I chose to talk about susan and david, i think this is a good scenario bcause susan is in a situation that she has to make a choice. She has to choose if she wants to go to college or be with david if i think she should get married to david and ask him if he would move with me where ever the school is and just start working at a local grocery store. I think that the transcendentalist would support my opinion because they thought that god speaks throught people's mind, and hard work and it is hard work because sally was in a very tough situation and she made a decision to marry and both of them would move and start a new life.