Mrs. Whittaker
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| show | Emerson
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| Who was a rockstar? | show 🗑
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| show | Emerson took the trip, while Thoreau passed it up.
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| show | 14
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| What profession did Emerson give up? | show 🗑
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| show | Emerson lived in the mansion, while Thoreau lived in the shack.
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| show | to encourage us to look directly at nature
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| What was Emerson's tone is Self-Reliance? | show 🗑
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| What was Emerson's purpose for writing Self-Reliance? | show 🗑
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| show | scholarly and persuasive
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| show | Thoreau was thrown in jail because he refused to pay his taxes.
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| show | 6 years
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| Why didn't Thoreau pay his taxes? | show 🗑
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| show | Thoreau was strongly against slavery and he was a strong abolitionist.
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| What is Thoreau known for doing to help end slavery. | show 🗑
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| What is Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government about? | show 🗑
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| show | parallel structure and repitition
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| Who wrote the novel No Enemies, No Hatred? | show 🗑
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| How does Thoreau see the government? | show 🗑
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| show | to learn from the experiment
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| show | Thoreau did not remove himself from society, he visited Concord and socialized often.
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| show | Thoreau was trying to see if life is just mean (empty) or sublime.
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| Who inspired Martin Luther King in is quest for civil rights? | show 🗑
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| Who originated the technique of observing one creature in the wild for long periods of time in order to understand it--a technique followed in this century by Diane Fossey and many others? | show 🗑
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| Who led folk singer Pete Seeger to start his campaign to clean up the Hudson River? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote the essay that led Mahatma Gandhi's hunger strike that led to India's independence? | show 🗑
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| show | Thoreau
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| Who encouraged thousands of people to dare to be different, to avoid being conformists? | show 🗑
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| Who inspired many people to lead lives of simplicity despite an increasingly complex world? | show 🗑
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| show | Thoreau
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| show | Thoreau
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| show | Thoreau
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| King justifies breaking some laws but upholding other laws when he... | show 🗑
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| According to King, an unjust law is a law that | show 🗑
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| King develops his arguments through | show 🗑
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| show | Respectfully breaking an unjust law expresses the highest regard for law.
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| Why was King arrested in Birmingham? | show 🗑
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| (True/False) King wrote in his letter that in some counties in Alabama there are some counties without a single Negro registered to vote despite the fact that the Negro constitutes a majority of the population. | show 🗑
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| show | openly and lovingly
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| show | Henry David Thoreau
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| show | 1960s
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| What word means associated with or participation in a wrongful act? | show 🗑
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| show | A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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| show | fail
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| show | Walden
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| show | 1817 in Concord
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| show | Thoreau had three siblings and none of them got married.
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| Where did Thoreau go to college at? | show 🗑
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| show | He quit because he refused to whip his students for punishment.
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| show | Emerson
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| What process did Thoreau create? | show 🗑
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| show | 1862 and age 44
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| show | Tuberculosis
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| show | False
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| (T/F) Emerson suggests that, in order to be completely alone, a person should gaze at the stars. | show 🗑
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| (T/F) If the stars shone one night in a thousand, according to Emerson, they still would be taken for granted. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| (T/F) When he walks in the woods, Emerson feels himself to be part or parcel of God. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| (T/F) According to Emerson, great men such as Socrates have always behaved consistently and in conformity with their fellowmen. | show 🗑
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| (T/F) Furthermore, Emerson suggests, persons of genius are seldom misunderstood. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | his lectures
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| Emerson outraged traditionalists when he rejected formal religion in favor of | show 🗑
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| In Nature, contradictory statements such as "I am glad to the brink of fear" illustrates | show 🗑
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| show | trust themselves
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| Judging from Self-Reliance, Emerson was a strong promoter of | show 🗑
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| (T/F) Physical reality is more valued than spiritual reality. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| show | False
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| (T/F) Transcendentalism is a form of idealism. | show 🗑
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| Man, made to be free, has not only been enslaved but, more tragic still, has enslaved himself. | show 🗑
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| show | Walden
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| show | Walden
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| Truth is the ultimate desire, to be valued more than love, money or fame. | show 🗑
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| Simplifying life lets a person concentrate on important things. | show 🗑
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| show | Resistance to Civil Government
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| The majority will inevitably, in some instances, harm the minority. | show 🗑
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| show | Resistance to Civil Government
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| show | Resistance to Civil Government
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| Citizens should be willing to act on their opinions. | show 🗑
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| An individual possesses the ability to judge the actions of the government. | show 🗑
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| show | Self-Reliance
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| Imitation of others is ignorance; we must take ourselves for better or for worse. | show 🗑
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| Only as individuals do we know what is best for us or what we are capable of doing. | show 🗑
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| We must trust ourselves and trust the divinity within each of us, for we are all made of noble clay. | show 🗑
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| show | Self-Reliance
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| If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. | show 🗑
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| If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore. | show 🗑
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| show | Emerson
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| I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. | show 🗑
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| show | Emerson
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| show | Emerson
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| show | Emerson
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| show | Thoreau
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| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. | show 🗑
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| I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. | show 🗑
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| show | Thoreau
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| show | Thoreau
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| show | Nature
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| Within the individual lies a divinity that allows human intuition to behold God's spirit in nature. | show 🗑
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| God is to be found both in people and in nature, but He can be fully experienced only when a harmony between both exists. | show 🗑
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