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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Transcendentalism Research Blog Post
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Amber, Caity,and Erin
Group 2- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He was a poet, philosopher, naturalist, and an educator. He graduated from Harvard in 1837 and this when his views on society began to change. Shortly after college, he began giving at lectures lyceums and there soon after on July 4th, 1845 Thoreau moves to Waldon Pond. This pond is where he will spend the next two years of his life. While residing here, he begins to write books and embracing the nature and wildlife around him. He lives completely off the land and becomes completely submerged into the wilderness. His book “Waldon Pond” becomes his most famous piece of work. His curiosity to understand life on a higher level is something commerable, in the sense that some of us as humans never understand that. Group 2 – Women’s Rights Movements The first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. 68 women and 32 men joined together to sign the Declaration of Sentiments, which would make women and men equal. This Declaration included 12 resolutions so women and men can have equal treatment and voting rights. 1850 was the first national women’s rights convention, held in Worcester, Massachusetts. More than 1000 participants showed to support women’s rights. December 10, 1869 the first women’s suffrage law was passed, which allowed women to serve as juries in courts. In 1903 the WTUL (Women’s Trade Union League) gave women’s improved wages and better working conditions. These are all events that led up the equal and fair treatment women and men have today.
Walt Whitman was a man whose life revolved around music. He would listen to classical music and relate it to his poetry. Eventually he learned to love classical music and based his poems on it. Not only did his passion for music help him as a poet but it also helped his style as a journalist. He used orchestral instruments as images to people his poems. He also watched many operas which influenced his opinion of American life as being a Transcendentalist.
Step five : Step 6 Part one
Black and white abolitionists often worked together. By the 1840s they differed in philosophy and method. White abolitionists focused on slavery and black Americans demanded for racial equality and justice. Quakers also seemed to join the anti slavery movement. No religous group have ever done this before. Many abolitionists united to form numerous antislavery societies to stop the maddness that went on.
Group 1- Ralph Waldo Emerson, or as he likes to be called " Waldo" was born on May 3, 1803 in Boston. He attended Boston Latin School and then attended at the impressive Harvad College. He was pronounced a Unitarian minister in 1829, however his faith was crushed when his first wife died of tuberculosis. In 1834 he began a career in lecturing, however more unfortuant events occured. His brothers both died. however they had children and he published his first major essay titled "Nature" in 1836. He later wrote and published more works on his views. However, ahead of Emerson he had many hardships yet again. First he saw the death of his son, and later lost his mother, his brother, his friend Thoreau, his auntm his brother william, and last but not least his house burned down. He had quite a hard life. April 27, 1882 he died of pneumonia, but before his death he managed to publish two last volumes named "Parnassus" and "Letters and Social aims"
There were a total of six Alcott’s, Anna Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, Abba May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, Abigail May Alcott and Louisa May Alcott. The most famous Alcott was Louisa May Alcott because she wrote 2 famous books Little Woman and Little Men. Louisa received most of her ideas from authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. She wrote fiction Goth novels which compares favorably with the best writers of the genre such as Edgar Allen Poe and Nathanial Hawthorne. Her parents were Abigail and Bronson Alcott. They lived in mainly in Boston and later on moved to Concord Massachusetts. Abigail was an abolitionist and supported woman suffrage during this time period of the mid 1800’s. Bronson Alcott was a salesman and later on became an education activists, he created the Temple University in Boston Massachusetts and later on wrote Conversations with Children in 1836. He recounted dialogues with his pupils on the meanings of the Bible in this piece. Basically they were all very smart individuals, who were very poor but never stopped their finically wrongs from interfering with their everyday life of educating people, though their literature they wrote to the school they created.
In Godey’s Lady’s Book it’s a whole variety of poems, drawings and narratives of what is happening during this time period of the 1850’s. Not only that, but it shows pictures or plates of houses, clothing, and furniture of the time period. The book has no plot; it includes other authors and artists works in the past that mainly support woman’s rights. For, instance there are many poems like Woman Power, by Frank Walters. Which basically says that woman are as equal and strong like men and that it’s not right for them not to be treated equally as men. But, there are other subjects like children's clothing, there are literally pictures of woman’s clothing. We think that this book is used to educate the people of the future by showing us their houses and clothing’s of the past and to educate their people of their time with its poems saying woman deserve rights like men.
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Amber, Caity,and Erin
Group 2- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He was a poet, philosopher, naturalist, and an educator. He graduated from Harvard in 1837 and this when his views on society began to change. Shortly after college, he began giving at lectures lyceums and there soon after on July 4th, 1845 Thoreau moves to Waldon Pond. This pond is where he will spend the next two years of his life. While residing here, he begins to write books and embracing the nature and wildlife around him. He lives completely off the land and becomes completely submerged into the wilderness. His book “Waldon Pond” becomes his most famous piece of work. His curiosity to understand life on a higher level is something commerable, in the sense that some of us as humans never understand that.
Group 2 – Women’s Rights Movements
The first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. 68 women and 32 men joined together to sign the Declaration of Sentiments, which would make women and men equal. This Declaration included 12 resolutions so women and men can have equal treatment and voting rights. 1850 was the first national women’s rights convention, held in Worcester, Massachusetts. More than 1000 participants showed to support women’s rights. December 10, 1869 the first women’s suffrage law was passed, which allowed women to serve as juries in courts. In 1903 the WTUL (Women’s Trade Union League) gave women’s improved wages and better working conditions. These are all events that led up the equal and fair treatment women and men have today.
Step 2: Walt Whiteman
Walt Whitman was a man whose life revolved around music. He would listen to classical music and relate it to his poetry. Eventually he learned to love classical music and based his poems on it. Not only did his passion for music help him as a poet but it also helped his style as a journalist. He used orchestral instruments as images to people his poems. He also watched many operas which influenced his opinion of American life as being a Transcendentalist.
Step five : Step 6 Part one
Black and white abolitionists often worked together. By the 1840s they differed in philosophy and method. White abolitionists focused on slavery and black Americans demanded for racial equality and justice. Quakers also seemed to join the anti slavery movement. No religous group have ever done this before. Many abolitionists united to form numerous antislavery societies to stop the maddness that went on.
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Group 1- Ralph Waldo Emerson, or as he likes to be called " Waldo" was born on May 3, 1803 in Boston. He attended Boston Latin School and then attended at the impressive Harvad College. He was pronounced a Unitarian minister in 1829, however his faith was crushed when his first wife died of tuberculosis. In 1834 he began a career in lecturing, however more unfortuant events occured. His brothers both died. however they had children and he published his first major essay titled "Nature" in 1836. He later wrote and published more works on his views. However, ahead of Emerson he had many hardships yet again. First he saw the death of his son, and later lost his mother, his brother, his friend Thoreau, his auntm his brother william, and last but not least his house burned down. He had quite a hard life. April 27, 1882 he died of pneumonia, but before his death he managed to publish two last volumes named "Parnassus" and "Letters and Social aims"
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There were a total of six Alcott’s, Anna Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, Abba May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, Abigail May Alcott and Louisa May Alcott. The most famous Alcott was Louisa May Alcott because she wrote 2 famous books Little Woman and Little Men. Louisa received most of her ideas from authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. She wrote fiction Goth novels which compares favorably with the best writers of the genre such as Edgar Allen Poe and Nathanial Hawthorne. Her parents were Abigail and Bronson Alcott. They lived in mainly in Boston and later on moved to Concord Massachusetts. Abigail was an abolitionist and supported woman suffrage during this time period of the mid 1800’s. Bronson Alcott was a salesman and later on became an education activists, he created the Temple University in Boston Massachusetts and later on wrote Conversations with Children in 1836. He recounted dialogues with his pupils on the meanings of the Bible in this piece. Basically they were all very smart individuals, who were very poor but never stopped their finically wrongs from interfering with their everyday life of educating people, though their literature they wrote to the school they created.
In Godey’s Lady’s Book it’s a whole variety of poems, drawings and narratives of what is happening during this time period of the 1850’s. Not only that, but it shows pictures or plates of houses, clothing, and furniture of the time period. The book has no plot; it includes other authors and artists works in the past that mainly support woman’s rights. For, instance there are many poems like Woman Power, by Frank Walters. Which basically says that woman are as equal and strong like men and that it’s not right for them not to be treated equally as men. But, there are other subjects like children's clothing, there are literally pictures of woman’s clothing. We think that this book is used to educate the people of the future by showing us their houses and clothing’s of the past and to educate their people of their time with its poems saying woman deserve rights like men.
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