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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau. Lauren Murphy & Brittany Bundschuh . Biography . Born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 Graduated from Harvard in 1837 friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson Lived a simple and relatively quiet life Died 1862. Transcendentalism.

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Henry David Thoreau

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  1. Henry David Thoreau Lauren Murphy & Brittany Bundschuh

  2. Biography • Born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 • Graduated from Harvard in 1837 • friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson • Lived a simple and relatively quiet life • Died 1862

  3. Transcendentalism • Emphasizes intuition, human nature, self-reliance, importance of nature • Ralph Waldo Emerson-main contributor • First notable American intellectual movement

  4. Contributions • powerful and influential writer • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Civil Disobedience • Walden

  5. Effects of Contributions • Gandhi’s, JFK, and Martin Luther King Jr • Hawthorn, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe • Importance of individualism

  6. Bibliography • Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience. N.p.: Dover Publications, 1993. Print. • Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. N.p.: Dover Publications, 1995. Print. • Furtak, Rick Anthony. Henry David Thoreau. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2009 Edition). Edward N. Zalta. June 30, 2005. Web. March 17, 2012. • Henry David Thoreau. Biography.com. Web. March 17, 2012. • Thoreau as a Writer. The Walden Woods Project. Web. March 16, 2012. • "Thoreau, Henry David." EncyclopædiaBritannica. EncyclopædiaBritannica Online School Edition. • EncyclopædiaBritannica, Inc., 2012. Web. 22 Mar. 2012

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