To say whether you are a transcendentalist or not can be hard, especially for me, because there are things that the transcendentalists believed in that I also do and some that I do not. For example, Emerson talks about about how we must rely on ourselves instead of society. He says, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members....Self-reliance is its aversion." I for one think that is very true. Society can hold us back from becoming better as a person.
What I do not agree with is what Emerson says about everyone having good in them. I think most people are good, but not everyone. That is why I agree with what Nathaniel Hawthorne said in The Minister's Black Veil. He had said, "...on eery visage a Black Veil!" I agree with Hawthorne when he says that meaning everyone has something they are trying to hide from everyone else. I feel this is more true than anything I read in either Emerson's or Fuller's text. For that reason, I do not think that I am able to call myself a transcendentalist.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
Maps-Is this a history or english class....
America Septentrionalis
1. What I first noticed in this map is that there are animals drawn on certain areas. These are drawn in where the Europeans believe one would encounter them. There seem to be lines drawn in for rivers, as well as mountains, where they believed them to be. On the far left, California is separated from the rest of the land. The writing is also in Latin, which makes it harder to read the map. In the upper left corner, the words mean Northern America. The people represented are what the Europeans believed the Native Americans to look like.
2. The map tells which animals one might encounter if he or she traveled across the land. The east coast area is more known because that is where the Europeans first settled, and then moved westward learning more. During this time, the west was a large unknown area. This map shows that they value the natural resources including animals and water. The animals are important to their survival.
3. Babb says, “A small band of settlers—male and female, gentry and yeomen, religious and secular—stand gathered holding guns and javelins, foregrounded against a large landmass dotted with men in scouts’ garb, deer, foxes, dogs, bears, and women and men in bearskins.” This relates to my map because there are a lot of wild animals thrown into the background of the map, placed around the country. Also, with the people in the upper left-hand corner, they are dressed as what she describes.
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