LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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It cost $1
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He didn’t learn anything of value there so he didn’t want it
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He was protesting having to pay for the diploma after paying to get his education there
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They spelled his name incorrectly
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Detailed explanation-1: -For the past six years, he had refused to pay the poll tax (imposed on all males 20 to 70 years old) to protest the institution of slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau, who believed this poll tax supported the Mexican-American war and the expansion of slavery into the Southwest, had stopped paying this tax in 1842 but the sheriff, Sam Staples, failed to take action against him for several years.
Detailed explanation-3: -A bright student, Thoreau eventually went to Harvard College (now Harvard University). There he studied Greek and Latin as well as German. According to some reports, Thoreau had to take a break from his schooling for a time because of illness.
Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating upon the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being.