Go Confidently

Monday, September 24, 2012

blog currently on hold due to lack of confidence HA

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Olivia StewartSeptember 26, 2012 at 5:16 PM
no!!!!!!
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UnknownSeptember 26, 2012 at 6:02 PM
It was supposed to be a bit of a joke. I will find confidence again soon, especially when I get back home and get rested and back in the swing of things
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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord MA. His father operated a pencil factory, and his mother took in boarders. He attended Harvard where he studied Greek, Latin and German. After college, Ralph Waldo Emerson became his mentor and friend. Through Emerson, he was exposed to Transcendentalism, a school of thought that emphasizes empirical thinking and spiritual matters over the physical world. It also encourages scientific inquiry and observation.
In 1845, Thoreau built a small home on Walden Pond. He spent two years there seeking a simpler life and experimented with working as little as possible. He once wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." He later wrote his famous book, Walden Pond.
He was against slavery, and his 1849 publication of "Civil Disobedience" influenced Martin Luther King, Jr and Gandhi.
He battled tuberculosis and died in 1862.