journal entrie response 2

my favorite entrie in this selection was the very first one, "all this worldy wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man" i see this quote as a way of saying that every great think in this world starts with an idea and grows into something more. once again i find it hard to dicifer the way he writes, very old english and metaphoracly. these entries did no get any better, i find them all very alike in the way that they are just random thoughts of this guy.

Journal entries

the journal entries that we just read were probably the least favorite thing that i have read in this class. i think that the journal entries that we read were boring and not very intruiging, i found some of them to be interesting, for example the entry when he talks about nature and how nature never makes hate but he also writes in an old,weird way that takes me a while to figure out. i am having a hard time deciding when and why he would write a journal entry, is it when he has a random thought or insight, or is it when he just feels like writing something . all in all i did not enjoy this reading as much as i enjoyed the others.

paper

1. Comparison: The thoughts and writings of Benjamin Franklin with that of Emerson and Thoreau. Each of these writers and thinkers are considered to be great and greatly influential Americans; However, Emerson and Thoreau’s Transcendentalist beliefs are very different from those of Franklin. Compare and contrast how these influential writers beliefs promote a competing and sometimes contradictory vision of the “American Dream.” In the process, you should arrive at a clearer understanding of Transcendentalism, Franklin’s message, and the writings of each of these men. In order to write this paper, you may want to take some time and read through the selection of Franklin’s Autobiography starting on page 7 in your reader.

Where I lived, And What I Lived For, response

I went into this reading thinking that i would not like it half as much as i did but after reading the first sentence of this selection i knew that this would be my kind of reading. I think that my favorite part of this selection is the theme of awakeness. "The millions ared awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake for effective intellectual expertion", this is my favorite quote in this section because it sheds light on the truth of life in todays society and that truth being the amount of time somebody can honestly say that they are truly focusing on the task at hand (whatever it may be). My other favorite theme in this book is simplicity. He regonizes another honest truth in this chapter when he says, "our life is frittered away with detail", i find this to be possibly the biggest truth of all time. We spend so much time with every little thing, getting frusturated, and sad over the smallest things and if we stepped back and took a look at the big picture 95% of the time we would realize that what we are stressing about is a very small detail of our life. All in all i really enjoyed reading this chapter.

emerson quotes

Quote #1-Self Reliance- "what have to do with all the sacredness of traditions , if i live wholly from within"- In this quote he is explaining how he does not bother with traditions because they are not his own, and if they are not his own then why should he bother with them in the first place? i like this quote because it explains how something like religion wont mean a thing unless it is within your core values and beleifes.

Quote #2-Self Reliance- "truth is more handsome than the affection of love. your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none". This may be my favorite quote so far because it make so much sense, if you are always happy go lucky never mad angry or sad then you are not a real person and somebody who is not a real person cannot have real person felings. i think that the meaning of this quote is to not be fake becuase it is not you.

Quote #3- Natue- "The stars awaken a certain reverence, because they are not always present they are inaccessible;but all natural objects make a kindred impression when the mind is open to their influence". i think that this quote is using the stars as a metafore for other things, sort of saying when you are really phyced or sad on something that its not just that one moment it is there, it is always there, but when the mind is open to it thats when it can make its impression.

Quote #4-"....The lover of nature is he whos inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each othere;who has retained the spirit of infancy into the era of manhood" the way i see this quote is like the only person who can be in tune with nature has to be in tune with himself, in and out and in tune with all stages of his life, he must be true to hiimself and only himself and not let other people shape him in any way shape or form.

things i want to get out of this course

I would like to get as many things out of this course as i can. The number one thing that i would like to get out of this course is more intellect and expirience in reading things then summarizing them. I would also like to improve on paper writing and grammar. And last but not least i would like to gain a greater vocabulary from this class.