... Concord, Massachusetts and barely ever followed the rules. Henry had a pretty darn good education. He went to Harvard, they required him to wear black, so Thoreau wore green. He had several different jobs at the start of his life, like most of us do. He was a school teacher, lecturer, even Emerson's ... handyman. Now onto the good part, in 1845 Thoreau lived alone at Walden Pond in a cabin that he built himself. He crammed all his experiences into one year and wrote a book about it, Walden. ... to pay the taxes that would support the Mexican War. After his experience in jail, he wrote "...

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... of Transcendentalism is complex and for this reason, only a number of people understood it. For this reason, Transcendentalism interests me. Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson, were one of the many authors who were part of Transcendentalism and Realism; these writers went out of their way in society ... nature. He stated that "things do not change; we change" (Thoreau). He implies that nature should not change for the people; we should change with the nature. In, "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau urges people to resist the governmental policies with which they disagree. This challenged ... peo...

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... " (Prentice Hall 384). The idea of Transcendentalism is complex and for this reason, only a number of people understood it. Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson, were one of the many people who were Transcendentalist; these writers went out of their way in society to represent their beliefs ... nature. He stated that "things do not change; we change" (Thoreau 409). He implies that nature should not change for the people; we should change with the nature. In "Civil Disobedience", Thoreau "urg[es] people to resist the governmental policies with which they disagree" ... ; (Prentice Hall 412)....

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