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His attitude toward society really through me off. I didn’t like how he described the way the town worked. How men would eat nuts and gossip, things like that. It gave me the vibe that one, he felt superior to […]

“Many a traveler came out of his way to see me and
the inside of my house, and, as an excuse for calling,
asked for a glass of water.” In chapter six, on the passage that begins with that sentence, Walden writes […]

On page 243, Thoreau describes the lake as “the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is the earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees […]

In this chapter, I was able to get a better understanding Thoreau’s attitude toward society. He begins by stating that he likes company like any other man.  He talks about the visitors who pass by his home in th […]

Thoreau talks very highly of the pond and nature surrounding in which leads me to believe that he enjoys spending time by it. On page 235 I find it particularly interesting when he says “The scenery of Walden is […]

In Visitors, Thoreau challenges the idea that physical state of solitude cannot coexist with companionship. Expressing a desire for social contact, Thoreau shares that he has designated “three chairs in [his] h […]

Though Thoreau speaks to his connection to nature and makes it clear that he prefers the solitude of the woods to the busy village, in this section of Walden Thoreau also touches on this idea of the need to go […]

When reading this chapter, I got a good sense of Thoreau’s attitude towards society.  He said that he ventured into the village every one or two days,  to “hear some of the gossip”. He writes about the village a […]

Thoreau’s discussion of Walden Pond is rich with evocative and thought-provoking language. The language he uses reflects the scenes he’s describing. Surrounded by “celestial dews” and housing a “myriad of ducks, […]

In the village passage Thoreau talks about two points that seemed to be linked to greed, or loss of self. The first half of the section describes shop owners who use ruthless or cold tactics to tempt consumers or […]

Through Henry David Thoreau’s description and personal narrative of his experience with, and in nature, he strongly believed that all living things have rights that humans should recognize. He had a view that we a […]

Henry David Thoreau focuses a great deal of his chapter “Visitors” on a French Canadian woodchopper and post-maker. Thoreau admires the man’s simple worldview and practical reaction to lofty philosophical ponders. […]

While reading the chapters from Wednesday readings written by Henry David Thoreau, I was fascinated at the level of detail in which Thoreau describes his surroundings.  In the chapter, The Bean Field, Thoreau […]

Reading this passage connects with Thoreau’s attitude towards nature and solitude in the way of how he describes his journey between his house in the woods and the populated village. It is clear that he prefers […]

In class we discussed enslaved life in Cuba and Brazil. The Digital Public History: Slave Voyages site allows a deeper understanding of both larger trends in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as well as micro trends […]

I am interested in researching the life of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, and how his experiences and politics shaped Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Chavez is an interesting and controversial figure, and […]

The primary source that I chose to analyze was Colored Officers or No Colored Soldiers by Presley Holiday. Sargent Presley Holliday’s document was a response to Roosevelt’s attack on African American sol […]

My research project will focus on homicides in Mexico. I will research the homicide rate in Mexico, along with the causes. The heavy increase in the number of homicides in Mexico has not gone unnoticed. It has […]