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Self Reliance

Self-Reliance

I chose the sentence “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think,” because it seems to sum up Ralph Waldo Emerson’s full story. He was an educated man but seems to have endured sorrow in his life which made him seek a simpler life instead of one surrounded by everyday expectations. For him life wasn’t about what he owned, what he should become, and how much was in his bank account. He yearned to find a simpler, happy, fulfilling life which led him to Walden Pond. Here he was one with the earth. He relied on nature for his food, animals for his comfort, and a simple cottage for shelter. He made a modest living with the crops he grew and that gave him ...

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teacher. I think if I was given the teaching material and had a group of children in one room, and there was also a teacher with a bachelors degree in another room, I could teach them just as well as she could. This might not be true with everyone but some people were just born for whatever they want to do, and loving children and being around them my whole life is something I was always good at, loved, and want to ...

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Added: 4/12/2011 12:16:58 PM
Submitted By: jlmann17
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 315
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