Henry Thoreau

Biography

• I was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord Massachusetts.

• I attended Concord Academy then entered Harvard in 1833 as a scholarship student, graduating in 1837.

• I was a significant transcendentalist writer, but my brilliance was largely omitted until later years.

• I contributed to Martin Luther's protest ideology in American history and to Gandhi in Indian History.

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Issues

• I was involved in the issue of slavery and personal improvement.

• My stance on slavery is that it is repulsive and that people should strive to improve themselves.

• My motivation is my transcendentalist philosophy, which makes me strive to follow my values above all else.

Solutions

• My solution to slavery is that people are to improve themselves and convince others individually to oppose slavery.

• My person was did not make much of an impact and unsuccessful.

Relationship to others

• My best friend is Ralph Waldo Emerson, while I dislike Jackson's policies.

• I support temperance because clean was is so much better than alcohol.

• Abolition is a worthy cause worth supporting.

• I do not affiliate myself with any side regarding education, though I have been a teacher, or prison, though I have gone to jail.

• I believe that living alone is a utopian way of life.

• I strongly support transcendentalism and following higher values.

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