LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Encourages people to be unique.
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Prevents people from being free.
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Is the best place to gain an education.
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Provides people with important opportunities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Emerson and Thoreau both believe that society prevents people from being free. Therefore option B is the correct response.
Detailed explanation-2: -In simple terms, Emerson focused on the need to achieve “spiritual liberation” through close attention to the wonders of nature that were the manifestation of the divine (qtd. in Sato 128). Thoreau was not as concerned with allegories and the search for the supreme force.
Detailed explanation-3: -He believed in individual conscience and nonviolent acts of political resistance to protest unfair laws. Moreover, he valued the importance of observing nature, being individual, and living in a simple life by his own values.
Detailed explanation-4: -Both Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” stressed social responsibility, intuition, and individualism. These men were very respected then and are still very well known today as great writers, inspiring civil rights leaders and influential minds.
Detailed explanation-5: -Thoreau was not a pure nature mystic, as he is sometimes pictured. He had a clear grasp of social and political facts. He understood that people live in groups, that every group is shaped by power relationships, and that these relationships create historical and social structures, which become the human environment.