In a 250-500 word post, respond to one of the following prompts:
Thoreau notes in “Resistance to Civil Government” that “governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.”
Explain Thoreau’s note “governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.”
Explain how this idea shapes Thoreau’s ideal government.
Support each part of your post with MLA cited examples/quotes from each text.
Whitman volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War.
Explain how Whitman’s poetry (from this module or a previous module) reflects his wartime experience.
Explain how Whitman’s poetry reflects his hope for America’s future. Draw evidence from at least one of his poems to support your evidence.
Support each part of your post with MLA cited examples/quotes from each text.
The Transcendentalists believed that society’s pressures would distract or obstruct an individual from achieving their true potential.
Citing an example from either “Self-Reliance” or “The Great Lawsuit,” explain how the author is critiquing society’s pressures on the individual
Explain how the author further explores how to overcome that pressure.
Support each part of your post with MLA cited examples/quotes from each text.
Text:
Ralph Waldo Emerson –
“Self-Reliance”
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/self/self.pdf
Margaret Fuller –
The Great Lawsuit
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Fuller_GreatLawsuit.pdf
Henry David Thoreau –
“Resistance to Civil Government”
https://www.walden.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Resistance-to-Civil-Government.pdf
Walt Whitman –
“Spontaneous Me”
https://poets.org/poem/spontaneous-me
