Daniel Higgins September13, 2000 ENG 252 – Paper 1 Transcending Life by Adapting the Concepts of Franklin, Emerson, and Thoreau Everyone one of us struggles daily to survive in a manner befitting our individual beliefs, hopes, aspirations, dreams, and goals. There is not a universal code on how exactly we should go about doing this. Benjamin Franklin, Henry Thoreau, and Waldo Emerson were some of the most unique thinkers influencing the way of thinking in America. Their concepts where …showed first 75 words of 1897 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1897 total…Franklin, Emerson, and Thoreau accomplished this. Their hard work, integrity, and search for truth, beauty, and wisdom through a transcendental nature enabled them to reach full potential as human beings on this planet. Never loosing site that we are all the same at the core, and connected spiritually with the universe, we should not be afraid to go against the stagnant aspirations of a modern society to find out what is truly important in “life.”