Week Five (2015.10.14) --- Henry David Thoreau's Walden
(1817 – 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Walden, by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
Herb
1. a seed-producing annual, biennial, or perennial that does not develop persistent woody tissue but dies down at the end of a growing season
2. a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal, savory, or aromatic qualities
herbivore: an animal that only eats plants
herbivore: a herbivorous animal
Omnivorous
1. eating both animal and plant foods
2. eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately
omnivore: someone or something that is omnivorous
Carnivore
1. an animal that eats flesh
2. a flesh-eating mammal of the order Carnivora, comprising the dogs,cats, bears, seals, and weasels
Se-: apart from
1. separate: to cause (two or more people or things) to stop being together, joined, or connected; to make (people or things) separate
2. seclude: to remove or separate from intercourse or outside influence
3. segregate: to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group
(integrate: to bring together or incorporate (parts)into a whole)
Solitude
1. the state of being or living alone
2. remoteness from habitations, as of a place
3. a lonely, unfrequented place
prefix: pro-
1. favoring, supporting, championing
propaganda: ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.
protagonist: the main character in a novel, play, movie, etc. ; an important person who is involved in a competition, conflict, or cause
proposal: something (such as a plan or suggestion) that is presented to a person or group of people to consider ; the act of presenting a plan, suggestion, etc., to a person or group of people ; the act of asking someone to marry you
reconcile
1. to find a way of making (two different ideas, facts, etc.) exist or be true at the same time
2. to cause people or groups to become friendly again after an argument or disagreement
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