EMERSON PRESENTATIONS DAY 2

EMERSON PRESENTATIONS DAY 1

ALL OF THE PRESENTATIONS WERE AWESOME!!! 👌🏽😎
NOTES:

EMERSON FOR THE YOUNG BUCK

Dear children of the world, 

            To begin with I would like to tell you that there was once a very wise man named Emerson who wrote and essay on Self- Reliance. To help you understand what Self- Reliance was all about I will like to make this short and sweet. What Emerson is telling us to do in this essay is to just be yourself.Don't be afraid kid. Don't be afraid to love the kind of person you are. Don't worry about what other people think of you. Life is too short for that, enjoy it while you can. Have fun, play with your friends, share wild memories and just put yourself out there. You are special in your own way. Everyone is different so don't be afraid to embrace who you really are. You are fabulous, don't ever change, just do you. Don't think about anything more than once. You are amazing, take risks, and life life at it's fullest. 

EMERSON SAID IT

OKAY. So today in class during our discussion I ended up having the same perspective and I still agree 100% with Emerson's idea and he has made me think of how I have been living my life and I realize that it is totally the incorrect way. In our class discussion there was a different perspective of how Emerson's ideas were viewed. Some people believed that Emerson is full of crap and that all he is doing is telling us to believe in ourselves in a cliche way and that at the end of the day we forget about what Emerson has to say to begin with. I totally disagree because when we say that society is always going to end up winning it is exactly what Emerson is telling us not to do and believe! He is telling us to stop believing that we can't do anything because we are the society! It only takes one person to make a difference. It all depends on a single person to make a difference, not just because everyone is doing it you should too. You need to step up and not be a prisoner of a fake personality and person because of "society." The first thing that needs to happen to achieve this is that you need to change and be yourself first and then you will be able to change the society, because if you are not at peace with yourself to begin with then you can't really make a difference in our society, that is why our society is how it is today. We can see this in all the quotes and messages that Emerson is trying to tell us. To begin with he starts off by saying, “ Ne te quaesiveris extra.” He is telling us that who we really are is inside of us. We have to be seeking our inner selves rather than our outer selves. Yes we hear this all the time but he isn’t just telling us to believe in ourselves, he is telling us to not conform to the person that everyone sees in a daily basis, or the person that acts like they are happy when in reality they aren’t. He is telling us to conform to the person inside of us, the real, pure, and true of us. He gives examples of our reality and he makes us realize why our society is how it is today. For example when he says,” We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents,” or when he says,” In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” These are examples of humanity’s reality. We are too afraid to speak what we know because we are in fear that we are wrong. We realize that we are right and we think of the fact that we never spoke up for the rest of the day. After giving us these examples he goes on to support us and and he tell us that it is not the end and that we have to make a difference to be happy with ourselves and who we are to begin with. He says,” Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” and, “ Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” YOU know yourself better than anyone else and you know that you can only obtain happiness by being yourself and not someone who acts just to fit in. YOU will know that you are doing the right thing when you finally reach peace. He tells us to be INDEPENDENT. It doesn’t matter if you are trying to change on your own. You do not need someone to hold your hand through it all. We are individuals who are capable of changing, you can either see the positive side of it and be inspired to make a change in yourself, or not. Focus on what you want to do and not on what others want you to do. That is what I caught from our discussion and my opinion. (:

IM SELF-RELIANT

Okay, so as I am reading the last paragraphs of self-reliant I am capturing many ideas that Emerson is telling us.  So first I get the idea that he is telling us that we don't have to depend on anyone to do what we want because we can make our own decisions and have our own ideas. I believe he says that anyone who isn't capable to be themselves and think or do things by themselves are not capable of being individual or reaching individualism. If you rely on someone else you have no hope, you should have self trust and just go for it. He goes on to talk about how adults should be more like boys or teenagers because they like adventure, they are spontaneous, genuine, and they are never hesitant. He states that adults should be like them because adults are always thinking twice about their decisions, they base it on other people's opinion because he cares about what other people think. He also talks about being true to yourself than trying to conform to the society's demands. Other ideas that I saw were that we should act independently. For example if you did a good deed you should not wait until someone praises you, you should know that you did the right thing and proceed on with your daily things. Lastly what he talks about is that we shouldn't let society shape our ways of thinking and he goes back to saying that we shouldn't conform to it, because if we do no one will know who we are. Our individual natures are what bring out the best in us and who we really are. That is what I captured from the last paragraphs. 😁

AUTHOR IN PROGRESS

I don't have my grade back yet, but I am confident that I did a good job. I think what helped me in this test was the fact that I saw the questions before hand and I did a set up or an outline on how I was going to write my short answers. Another good thing that I think helped me was that I went back to the paragraphs that we had read and I read the parts that weren't clear to me. I believe that what I could have done better would have been to add more details to my writing,. Maybe I could have analyzed it more deeply and put more facts than opinions. That's how I currently feel about my short answer writing.

AUTHOR IN PROGRESS

I don't have my grade back yet, but I am confident that I did a good job. I think what helped me in this test was the fact that I saw the questions before hand and I did a set up or an outline on how I was going to write my short answers. Another good thing that I think helped me was that I went back to the paragraphs that we had read and I read the parts that weren't clear to me. I believe that what I could have done better would have been to add more details to my writing,. Maybe I could have analyzed it more deeply and put more facts than opinions. That's how I currently feel about my short answer writing.