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Thursday, December 6 th 1. Get out your notes on Civil Disobedience 2. Review each paragraph 3. Your answers to B, C, D 4. Walt Whitman—quick & dirty 5. Your overall response to Transcendentalism? 6. 24 Hour Transcendentalism Challenge! 7. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE have a copy of Moby- Dick ready to go for Monday. Our copies are atrocious! It is National Handwriting Awareness Week!

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Thursday, December 6th

Thursday, December 6th Get out your notes on Civil DisobedienceReview each paragraphYour answers to B, C, DWalt Whitmanquick & dirtyYour overall response to Transcendentalism?24 Hour Transcendentalism Challenge!PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE have a copy of Moby-Dick ready to go for Monday. Our copies are atrocious!It is National Handwriting Awareness Week!

I & II: In classIIIUnjust laws exist in the world and unfortunately, men wait until the majority agree until they try to change themThe punishment (remedy) they face will be worse than the injustice (evil) so they do nothingCitizens should be ready to point out the governments flaws, and the government should be ready to hear themSometimes the injustice is a necessary evil and will fix itselfOTHERWISE, if a law causes you to be unjust to your fellow man, you MUST BREAK THE LAW[Sidebar: As MLK, Jr. said, Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere]Civil DisobedienceIVThoreau writes about his run-in with the tax collector who is serving the state with his body (machine, no respect for him)It is important to meet the agent of injustice head on, i.e. why he did not pay his taxIt only takes one person to start change: what is once well done is done forever.People only love to talk about reform and not act on itVThoreau gives his reasons for civil disobedienceTruth holds power; it is always stronger than the errorHe also writes that if a man experiences some injustice himself, he will be a more passionate, eloquent, and effective protestorA mans conscience is where his true manhood and immortality reside

VIEven though Thoreau was put in jail, he still felt freeThey had punished his body, not his mindThe government never confronts a mans intellectual ability or morality, only his bodyThe state is armed with superior physical strengthThe acorn & the chestnut: one does not give way to the other, each grows according to its natureThe same is with manif he cannot live according to his nature, he dies