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Modern Transcendentalism Project

Self-Reliance

Importance of Nature

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-Reliance"

In the popular T.V show, Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls embarks on long, life threatening, courageous journeys to unique countries. He survives in the wild usingself-reliance where he depends on himself instead of others. Some of the places where Grylls has been include: Antarctica, Venezuela, Mt. Everest, and many more places! He was also the youngest Briton to successfully climb Mt. Everest at age 23. To stay alive, Grylls has drank his own urine, eaten ticks and larvae, and also has eaten and slept in a rancid camel., with much more disturbing variety dangerous animals.

"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house is a world;

and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists

for you." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"

WALL-E is about the destruction of the

Earth from overproduction. All of the

surplus created was dumped onto Earth, \

making Earth not livable to the human

race. All the humans end up evacuating

and leave robots, called WALL-E, to fix

up Earth. In the meantime, in space,

humans become too caught up in technology and eventually become obese. Years later, one WALL-E survives, and finds a sign of nature in plant Earth. In summary, WALL-E stresses the

importance of nature by showing the consequences of not

caring for mother nature, and how it destroys life as we

know.

Simplified Life

"Build therefore your own world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"

Into the Wild is about Chris

McCandless who spends his life

hitchhiking and getting simple jobs.

He carries as little money and possessions as possible. He does get close to people at some time, but never true intimacy. McCandless spends weeks in the forest hunting,

building shelter and writes about his experiences. This

movie shows how living a simple life will make you

happier and is an ideal way of living.

Nonconformity

Favoring Intuition Over Reason

Gracias

"Trust thyself: every heart vibr-

ates to that iron string."--

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Sefl-

Reliance"

In Paulo Coelho's novel, The Alchemist, the character Santiago falls in love with Fatima at first sight. In the novel, Coelho stresses the fact that if you lay eyes on someone for the first time and fall madly in love with them, trust that gut feeling. He shows that intuition is more important than reason: it probably isn't logical to fall in love with

someone in first sight, but if you truly love them

you would know.

"Greatness is a property for which no man can receive

credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is

acknowledged." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

"I don't want to be anything other than me

I'm surrounded by liars everywhere I turn

I'm surrounded by impostors everywhere I turn

I'm surrounded by identity crisis everywhere I turn

Am I the only ones who's noticed?

I can't be the only ones who's learned"

"I Don't Want To Be"

~Gavin DeGraw

This song "I Don't Want To Be" reflects the aspect of nonconformity because it refuses to go with common standards but instead it illustrates one needs to separate themselves from everyone else. The song describes how the world is full of liars, impostors, and identity crisis people who only wreck you (Wrecking Ball-Miley Cyrus:)). It shows that the people who believe in themselves are the ones who

have a greater understanding of life.

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