LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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The American Revolution had far-reaching interest and effect.
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Guns back then were extremely loud.
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Battles took place all over the world.
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The world is very, very small.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Emerson and his audience, gathered on July 4, 1837, believed that the Revolution that began that day had started a revolution in human affairs that would reach around the world and would ultimately free the human race from the yoke of tyranny and oppression under which it had labored for thousands of years.
Detailed explanation-2: -The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers fell in the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
Detailed explanation-3: -What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘The shot heard ‘round the world’? A line from Emerson’s Concord Hymn. Later used to denote shots of various forms that had international significance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Major Buttrick of Concord shouted, “For God’s sake, fire!” and the Minute Men replied with their own volley, killing three British soldiers and wounding nine others. This volley is the volley considered “the shot heard round the world.” The rest of the British troops retreated back to town.
Detailed explanation-5: -DeCosta July 29, 1775. The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th, the “Shot Heard Round the World.” The colonial militia, a band of 500 men, were outnumbered and initially forced to retreat.