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Modern Transcendentalism

Importance of Nature

In the movie Avatar the new race of people really respect nature. Much like the transcendentalist, they hold nature to a high standard. They also reserve a tree called the "Tree of Life" that is very sacred to the people.

Avatar

Favoring Intuition over Reason

Nonconformity

Steve Jobs

Miley Cyrus

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."

Steve Jobs is an example of using intuition over reason because he created many things that he was told would be impossible. He trusted in himself so much despite being discouraged by the people of society telling him no. By using his intuition over reason he has made a huge impact on the world forever and won't be forgotten.

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance"

- Henry David

Thoreau, Walden

"Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus,

and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Self Reliance

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”

Katniss Everdeen

Simplified Life

The Lion King

"Hakuna Matata"

Katniss Everdeen from, The Hunger Games, represents being self reliant person because while she is in the games she really has to rely on herself and her abilities. Everyone is against each other in the games so you really don't have anyone to trust so being self reliant is really the best option. Even before she is sent to the games she has to rely on herself to hunt to not only feed herself but to also feed her sister and mother.

The song "Hakuna Matata" from the Lion King is a a phrase that translates to "no worries". By having no worries, you are living a simple life style and keeping your affairs or problems to a minimum. If you are care free and have no worries that will lead you to a simple life.

"A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him: I wish that he should wish to please me."

Miley Cyrus is a great example of nonconformity because she is not changing herself to be what everyone wants her to be. When she dyed and cut all of her hair off it started an immediate controversy, Millions of people still want her to change and go back to her old ways despite how long it has been since she originally changed her lifestyle. She is and will continue to be misunderstood by people around the world but she will never conform herself to meet anyone's standards.

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance"

- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

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