Edward Estlin Cummings also known as e. e. cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings was considered to be a shaper and mover of the 20th century poetry world. As well as poet, Cummings was also a painter, playwright and author. Cummings was raised in an upper class household, with strong family values and an emphasis on education. His parents were Edward Cummings (the first Sociology professor at Harvard University turned Unitarian minister) and Rebecca Cummings.
Adam Smith and his work and contributions to Capitalism Adam Smith, known as the "founding father of economics", was born in the family of a lawyer in Kirkcaldy Scotland in 1723. He studied Latin, mathematics, history, and writing in one of the best secondary schools of Scotland at that period"—from 1729 to 1737.At the age of 14, he entered the University of Glasgow and developed his passion for liberty, reason, and free speech while studying moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson. In 1740, being awarded the Snell exhibition, he left to attend Balliol College, Oxford. He left Oxford University in 1746. Smith began delivering public lectures in 1748 in University of Edinburgh.
Although they were separated by a generation in age, they were two men of the same beliefs and shared the same ideas. Emerson became acquainted with Thoreau in 1837 when he was thirty-four and Thoreau a twenty year old Harvard senior. (Emerson 145) Emerson attended Harvard and then became a Unitarian minister just like his father had been. Thoreau also attended Harvard but upon graduating, became a teacher and opened up a school. These two men believe that nature is what forces us not to depend on others ideas but to develop our own.
Thoreau’s Walden: An Appeal for Human Reform Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s first great philosophers. Following in his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson’s footsteps, Thoreau was an avid transcendentalist of the mid-19th century. In his most famous work, Walden, he describes his two-year experiment living in a small cabin on Walden Pond. His dwelling is located about a mile and a half from Concord, Massachusetts, on Emerson’s land. In the book, Thoreau rejects the standard pace of life and reflects on human behavior.
A major reason of his influence was the fact that he was also a writer. He was not the only one that played a role in her life. Louisa’s “friends and neighbors included writers Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau“. In fact, it was a family friend that motivated Louisa to write her first book. Louisa’s first book “flower Fables” was written for the daughter of Emerson, a family friend.
Ucha1 Hugo Ucha World Literature Jane E. Robson May 3rd, 2012 Final Paper Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires on 24 August 1899. Influenced by his English grandmother, who was British, he becomes literate in both English and Spanish. He spent his formative years in Geneva, after his family was trapped there due to World War I. When the war was over and after spent a few months in Spain, he returned to Buenos Aires and worked as a librarian. In 1923 he published his first poetry book, “Fervor de Buenos Aires” by the time he was promoted to the director of the Argentinean National Library.
Benedict Spinoza’s writings and books were later put in the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books as well. Benedict de Spinoza then spent the rest of his short life writing on his idea of god and philosophy, giving small private philosophy lessons, and grinding lenses. Benedict de Spinoza died at the age of forty-four on February twenty-first in the year sixteen-seventy-seven. The cause of Spinoza’s death was believed to be from a lung disease likely caused by fragments of glass dust that he had inhaled in his years as a lens crafter. Spinoza gained interest in philosophy when he was about twenty years of age, at which point, he began studying Latin with a man named Francis van den Enden.
(b) He attended Concord Academy and at the age of 16, he began attending Harvard University. It was at Harvard that he met Ralph Waldo Emerson and began following the Transcendentalism Movement. (c) He became a teacher at a local public school, but soon he resigned. He went on to open up his own school with his brother John. When John died, he went up into the woods at Walden to build his cabin, where he spent much of his time and wrote his most famous works.
Every year, for the past five years, I have used of My Brother Martin in my classroom to teach the biography genre and to help my students learn more about the Rev. King. I like this book because it shows that he grew up a normal kid like many of my students. When given the assignment to review a book, I wanted to evaluate My Brother Martin since it is a favorite of mine to use with my students. In Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, the authors, Banks and Banks (2013), “list seven forms of gender bias that you can use when evaluating instructional materials” (p. 121).
The new wave of the Transcendentalist movement was sparked around the time of Emerson’s personal crisis surrounding his vocation, thus launching him to the forefront of the movement, a movement that would largely define the career of his literary genius. Emerson would impact literature for his generation and the generations to come through his influence and guidance given to the poets whose work he helped grow and develop. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25th, 1803 to Ruth Haskins Emerson and William Emerson, who was a Unitarian minister. When Emerson was seven, his father passed, leaving his mother, Ruth, to care for their six children. This was Emerson’s first lesson in self-reliance as he witnessed his mother raise six children on her own while living off solely a small stipend from the church and an additional income from taking boarders into their home (Huff, vol.