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Essay Instructions: Comparative analysis, Compare and contrast Emerson’s notion of “self reliance” to “Civil Disobedience” by Throeau. Essay should comment on relationship between those two works and authors. How would Emerson comment on Throeau’s notion on Civil Disobedience and Throeau on Emerson’s notion of Self Reliance. How do authors regard to each other (how would they read each other’s work). You are expected to use only those 2 works ("self reliance, and "civil disobedience"), no outside works allowed. You are expected to explain your points with quotations.

Essay Instructions: Briefly explain what Emerson meant by the following:
a: ?Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.?
b: ?The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.?
c: ?A man is a god in ruins.?
d: ?A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers, and divines.?
e: ?Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic.?

Essay Instructions: two short essay answers needed

briefly describe the location, context, and significance of each

1st-"Man thinking" from Emerson's "American Scholar"

2nd-compare Emerson and Hawthorne, and how they use nature in their writing (Emerson's "Nature" and Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter")

use specific examples from each of the stories

Essay Instructions: To what degree might Emerson and Thoreau be thought of as forerunners of the modern environmental movement? That is, environmental awareness today is very concerned with attitudes as well as pubic policy--with laws that help to redefine our relationship with nature. Pick one current environmental issue and trace our modern treatment of it to either Emerson or Thoreau, showing specifically how their comments are linked to our current fram of mind.