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High School High Schools Journalist
663 wordsWhen I received the criteria for this essay I knew that writing this would be a personal challenge to myself. My motivation and interest in being a journalist is so vast that I knew that I would have trouble squeezing it all into a mere 500 word essay. In addition, I would have to list my experience in journalism. During my high school years I have accumulated so much experience due to the responsibilities bestowed on me, that it would be hard to describe them all. As I entered my sophomore year...
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Stand To Gain Begin To Question Conform
803 wordsA Japanese proverb says, "The nail that sticks out will be hammered down. " Society tries to place many rules on us as individuals as to what is acceptable and what is not. We must decide for ourselves whether to conform to such a social decorum. We are taught as soon as we are old enough to grasp the idea that it is bad to be unique and to avoid being different. At some point, however, we must decide within ourselves whether to spend every day trying to be like everyone else because society say...
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Quality Of Life Western Societies
659 wordsMany facts concur to show that we must look far deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy. These tools have some questionable properties. They are regents. Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Throughout the course of human history, men and women have taken steps to make life easier. Going back to the allegorical curse placed upon man in the Genesis scriptures, that he should work by the sweat of his bro...
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Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter House Of Usher
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Skills And Abilities Nonprofit Organizations
683 wordsAccountants Local and national economy is at the forefront in this election. Accountants can plan an important role in helping both businesses and individuals during tough economic times. The present paper examines accountants skills and discusses how these skills can help the accountants to help others in the community. The accountants in the XXI century becomes a very important profession, as nowadays accountants are much more of consultants than it was in the past. Also, the accountants nowad...
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American Family Modern American
1,190 wordsFuchs The American Way Of Families: Is Fuchs The American Way Of Families: Is The Dream Really As Sweet As Apple Pie? Fuchs The American Way of Families: Is the Dream Really as Sweet as Apple Pie? There were a few aspects of Lawrence H. Fuchs essay The American Way of Families that I found extraordinarily interesting. He discusses influences of the modern American family that I found quite bizarre. Fuchs also labels the key component to the American family as being none other than the gratificat...
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642 wordsRomanticism originated in Europe around 1750 with celebrated authors including: John Keating, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelly. This literary trend soon after crossed the Atlantic appearing in the works of poets such as: Walt Whitman, Henry Thoreau, and Ralf Emerson. This period emphasizes natural objects, intimate self-revelation... , and direct expression of strong, personal emotion (Perkins 9). Because of the Industrial Revolution, individuals, often economically forced, moved from the co...
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University Of Wisconsin Organic Architecture
1,151 wordsThese ideas proposed by Wright represent a half century of ingenuity and unrivaled creativity. Wright was unquestionably a architectural genius and was years ahead of his time. The biggest obstacle which held Wright back throughout his career was the lack of technogaly that was present during his time. As a architect, Wright accomplished more that any other in history, with the possible exception of DaVincci or Michangelo. His philosophy of Organic Architecture showed the world that form and fun...
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University Of Wisconsin Organic Architecture
1,145 wordsFrank Lloyd Wrights Genius These ideas proposed by Wright represent a half century of ingenuity and unrivaled creativity. Wright was unquestionably a architectural genius and was years ahead of his time. The biggest obstacle which held Wright back throughout his career was the lack of technogaly that was present during his time. As a architect, Wright accomplished more that any other in history, with the possible exception of DaVincci or Michangelo. His philosophy of Organic Architecture showed ...
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India And Pakistan Walden Pond
951 wordsHenry David, Thoreau was an american writer, philosopher, and naturalist, whose work demonstrates how the abstract ideals of libertarianism and individualism can be effectively instilled in a persons life. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau was educated at Harvard University. In the late 1830 s and early 1840 s he taught school and tutored in Concord and on Staten Island, New York. From 1841 to 1843 Thoreau lived in the home of American essayist and transcendental philosopher Ralph Waldo Em...
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894 wordsHenry David Thoreau American literature during the first half of the nineteenth century took many forms and ideas that still effect our ever so changing society today. Henry David Thoreau was among the notable writers during this time, and his impact of American literature will not soon be forgotten. His perseverance, love for nature, and humanitarian beliefs helped to mold the ideas and values of early American history. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12 in 1817. His parents, both...
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Henry David Thoreau Westward Expansion
815 wordsI 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 I had not lived. Cody Clare Oct 3 1997 Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was a man whos ideas were light years ahead of the time which he was alive. Thoreau was born in 1817 and was alive from the time of industrial revolution, the westward expansion, and the pin nical of the slave trade. America ...
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Henry David Thoreau Love For Nature
805 wordsmerican literature during the first half of the nineteenth century took many forms and ideas that still effect our ever so changing society today. Henry David Thoreau was among the notable writers during this time, and his impact of American literature will not soon be forgotten. His perseverance, love for nature, and humanitarian beliefs helped to mold the ideas and values of early American history. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12 in 1817. His parents, both abolitionists of sla...
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Invisible Man Main Character
375 wordsInvisible Man: The Narrator In Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man, the main character goes through many situations trying to discover himself. The main character, the narrator, thinks that he is a very important person. He thinks that his ideas will put an end to all the racial stereotypes in the world. The narrator does not realize that he is virtually nonexistent to everyone. The narrator goes through three states of sociality: invisible, translucent, and visible. At first, the narrator thin...
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Nature Life Species
531 wordsDear Charles Darwin, Hello, I have recently read your theory on natural selection and the Origin of Species. Although each of us approach life differently, for example your ambition being on a different level than mine and your formal learning more than I feel is needed, I admire how much you have learned from nature. I say that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ...
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Common Sense Machiavelli Knew Society
565 wordsNicholas Sine (if you read this please email me) Period Four April 5, 1998 Machiavelli Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson knew exactly how our society thinks when he said those words. The Prince, written by Machiavelli, was made of his thoughts on being or becoming a ruler. Because Machiavelli's ideas were, like Emerson said, examples of common sense, people were shocked by them. Machiavelli's ideals for society reflect common sense. It do...
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Margaret Fuller First Child
1,209 wordsMargaret Fuller: Bluestocking, Romantic, Revolutionary by: Ellen Wilson 1810 - 1850 Published by William E. Wilson Copyright 1977 Ryerson Ltd... , Toronto, 1977 Sarah Margaret Fuller lived an extremely detailed life. She experienced many difficult occurrences that would have made many think life too difficult. But, no matter how many events made her feel like a failure and never improved, Margaret still fought for what she wanted and never gave in to anything she thought was less than what she d...
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Small Town Life Music
358 wordsMy inspiration to succeed has always come from within. As a child, I had the vision of becoming a star and a role model for the next generation. I applied to Emerson College because I believe it will help me fulfill those dreams. I am a person who is driven to achieve, and help others. The adversity of living in a small town, the frustration of being different, of looking to rise above and realize my own autonomy has helped me grow. The next step in my growth is Emerson. I am also a person who h...
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299 wordsAlbert Gel " Birds and Fishes, " one of Jeffers last poems, almost makes the mistake of attributing greed and malice to the feeding of seabirds on fishes but then recovers to find in the violence of the scene a manifestation of the " beauty of God" For Jeffers, then, as for Emerson, original sin consisted in a fall into ego consciousness, which sets mind against nature and individuals against one another. from A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910 - 1950. ...
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Leaves Of Grass View Of The World
1,694 wordsThrough the history of the United States there have been a countless numbers of poets. With them came an equal number of writing styles. Certainly one of the most unique poets to write lifes story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was Walter Whitman. Greatly criticized by many readers of his work, Whitman was not a man to be deterred. Soon he would show the world that he had a voice, and that it spoke with a poets words. Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open ro...
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