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Who is Thoreau
“That government is best which governs least”
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Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Wrote Self Reliance
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What is nature?
This theme involves human reactions as well as the environment
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What is suicide?
Emerson said "Imitation is ________________"
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Free points :)
Free points :)
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Who is Emerson
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Wrote On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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What is imagination?
This theme involves being open minded
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What are Transcendentalists?
Emerson and Thoreau are well-known _____________________.
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Copying someone else kills everything that you are and your individuality.
Describe what Emerson meant when he said "Imitation is suicide"
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Who is Malcolm X
“Our people will never be respected as human beings until we react as other normal, intelligent human beings do.”
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Who is Malcolm X?
Gave an interview with Les Crane titled “Necessary to Protect Ourselves
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What is nonconformity?
This theme involves being yourself
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What is religion?
Emerson believed that institutionalized ______________ was a barrier to an individual’s unity with God.
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the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
Define civil disobedience in your own words.
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Who is Emerson
"Imitation is suicide"
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Who is Malcolm X?
Founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity
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What is intuition?
This theme involves following your gut or what your body/mind tells you
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What are taxes?
Thoreau engaged in an act of civil disobedience by refusing to pay his _____________________.
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The government is doing nothing to protect the citizens.
Malcolm X said it is appropriate to engage in acts of civil disobedience when...
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Who is Thoreau
"I was not born to be forced"
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Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Was more peaceful than Malcolm X in his view of civil disobedience but had similar views
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What is good versus bad?
This theme involves labeling things as right or wrong
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What are critics?
Malcolm X is quoted saying “I think all of us should be _________________________ of each other”
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Labels given to things as we view them as being right or wrong. Not everyone has the same idea of what is good and what is bad.
Emerson said that the words good and bad are...
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