Caesar. He Was Not, On The Whole, A Striking Or Compelling Figure Except For One

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Term Paper Title	Caesar. He Was Not, On The Whole, A Striking Or Compelling Figure Except For One
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Caesar.  He was not, on the whole, a striking or compelling figure except for one feature, his eyes, which were strong, serious, large, and deep set; bright blue in some light.  Henry David Thoreau was fascinated by nature as he grew up and like all the other kids his age, he loved the countryside.  Thoreau was a good student, who behaved somewhat shy and solemn with his classmates.  He didn't really participate in what all the other kids did, so they nicknamed him, "The Judge."
     From 1833 to 1837 Thoreau had been a student at Harvard College, and though he deprecated the college and the education it gave him, Harvard must be considered a major influence on his life.  Not until his sophomore year in college did he become interested in modern literature, especially his interest in modern poetry.  One thing Thoreau did acknowledge about his Harvard education was that three years of English with Professor Channing had in fact taught him to express himself in writing.  His college themes survive and they show him mastering a graceful, conventional, reasonably spare style.  Harvard had in fact prepared him for a life of the mind.
      From the beginning, Thoreau’s writing was marked by an intense interest in the wonders, not of the invisible, but of the visible world but before any of Henry David Thoreau's works, Thoreau had two very important mentors.  Their names were Orestes A. Brownson and Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The two very intelligent minds conformed Thoreau into the great thinker that he was.  Brownson was brilliant and intellectual reformer.  Brownson believed in many ideas of Karl Max, a reformist in Europe.  Brownson was a sharp critique about emerging factories and the growing inequalities the capitalists and workers have.  Like Brownson, Thoreau became a sharp critic on ruthlessly exploited workers.  For the six weeks he stayed with Brownson, Thoreau experienced a tremendous amount of intellectual growth.  Every night Thoreau and Brownson shared ideas about philosophy, religion, literature, and reform.  Emerson came into Thoreau's life in a different way.  While in Harvard, Thoreau read a book called Nature, the book enlightened him, and caused him to read it many more times.  Emerson was a transcendentalist, who celebrated the wild to the full extent.  Transcendentalists were individuals who believed that everyone had the intuitive power to grasp divine and universal truths.  Thoreau eventually joined a society of transcendentalists, which was centered...

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