Thursday, September 24, 2009

My plan...

My plan for this essay is to basically critique Modern American culture through the eyes of Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson. Like in your example I will write about how Thoreau would react to the instant way we get news via the internet and how everyone knows everything about everyone through social networks like facebook and myspace. Emerson's belief in "imitation is suicide" would contrast highly with the celebrity culture and how every little girl is trying to imitate and wear the same things as her favorite star. The way many people in the city have forgotten nature would of course disgust Whitman. I will basically critique the modern culture through the ideas of these authors.

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4 comments:

  1. EmmaSeptember 25, 2009 at 8:27 AM

    This sounds really cool, and could be very funny. Are you framing it sort of like E.B. White does the end of his essay, where he shows Thoreau the sights?

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  2. Anna MorgansSeptember 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM

    I think you'll do awesome in intergrating these classic writers into the modern world. But yeah how are you going to do it? Will it be story form like the Utah essay or more like White's essay where he wrote formally and then took it to a story form?

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  3. Juliette.September 25, 2009 at 8:34 AM

    This would be cool, but are you going to do it simultaneously or sequential? I think it would be cool if you had them all there together since in reality they did know each other. Maybe you talk about some of the things they would appreciate in our modern world such as going green or space travel (expanding our natural world), some of the outrageous trends people wear to be different, and something to do with the news in a postivive light (i can't think of one)

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  4. Mackenzie BronsonSeptember 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM

    I like this and there are a myriad of examples that you can elaborate on, which will make writing it much easier. Do you think that they would only criticize our coeval lifestyle? Maybe they would be impressed with the speed that news travels at. Maybe they would like the role models that have a positive influence? Your conclusion might want to be a little less cynical than the rest of your essay is.

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