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 * Lady Learners **

Kiara, Evelyce, Gabriana

¨The Help¨ - Transcendentalism -Gabriana Ramos Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement from the early 1900s that still exists today. In many movies, songs, and even in pieces of literature. The book that I am currently reading now entitled, ¨The Help¨ written by Kathryn Stockett is a prime example of how literature shows transcendentalism and conformity. The help highlights how people back in 1962 just followed each other and let possessions control their everyday lives. In 1962 all women were looking for a man to marry and then start producing children to carry the family name. In ¨The Help¨, the character Euginea or better known as Skeeter is a woman that refuses to conform, and follow all the women in her social circle. All her friends dropped out of college, married, and have children. Skeeter on the other hand finished college and got her degree. Not only did she get her degree, but she also is a single woman with no children. Instead of settling down like everyone else, Skeeter wants to be a writer/ journalist of any sort at this point. Since it is rare for a women to have a career, there aren´t many opportunities for women in the writing field, so to start she is writing a column on tricks about how to clean around the house. She keeps her writing a secret from her mother because she knows that her mother would not approve of her choices of how she is going to live her life. Furthermore, Skeeter doesn´t let her wealth and status in society stop her from being who she is. The people that surround Skeeter are very wealthy, white people. They live their lives based on their possessions and money. When she meets with her friends, she states, ¨I will never be caught wearing old clothing...¨, she as well as the other women know that if they repeat an outfit while at the league meetings, they will be talked about and looked down on. Their wealth run their everyday lives, the women won´t leave their houses if they are not dressed up with their hair done, they won´t ever wear the same outfit twice, and they are always looking for the next big thing. When one of them falls behind on the latest style or appliance, they get casted out. Skeeter on the other hand doesn´t try to impress anyone, her hair is frizzy most of the time, she doesn´t dress in her finest clothes, or buy all the new appliances. She doesn´t let her wealth or possessions control who she is, or who she wants to be. Continuing, Ms. Skeeter doesn´t conform because unlike all her friends, she isn´t rude to the African American house help. She does not be little them, or make them do unreasonable tasks just to keep them out of the way. She thanks them after they perform certain tasks for her, and she tends to hold conversations with them. Ms. Skeeter´s friends, like Ms. Hilly, is very rude to her help and all African Americans. Ms. Hilly asks her maids to do unreasonable tasks, such as polishing all the silver every day, even when it hasn´t been used. Ms. Skeeter is the epitome of a transcendentalist. Stockett, Kathryn. //The Help//. New York: Amy Einhorn, 2009. Print.

=Animals & Humans are EQUAL= -Gabriana Ramos Another huge focal point transcendentalism is that man kind is not above nature or animals. No one is above anyone, in fact transcendentalist believe that everyone and everything is equal to one another. In the photo found below this text shows that the people and animals are equal. In the photo the little girl is on the floor with the puppy on the same terms as him. Not only are they at the same eye level, but they are sharing an ice cream cone. The ice cream cone symbolizes the earth, and how instead of fighting for it, people and nature should share it. = = = = =**Home-Natural Instincts**= = = =Kiara M.= =Divergent- Transcendentalists=
 * -Gabriana Ramos**
 * Oh is a Boov that has just come to our planet with his entire alien nation, being casted out by his peers, Oh befriends a human girl names Tip. While spending time with her he begins to find himself and discover who he wants to be. Back with his fellow Boov every one stayed in order and followed the many rules placed before them by their ruler, King Shusher. While riding with Tip she begins to play music and Oh just about loses his mind. His body was telling him to dance to the music, but his mind kept telling him that he should not because it is shameful. In the video below you can see how Oh is trying to stop dancing, but his instincts over powered his mind and he dances his heart out. media type="youtube" key="K3sPTMnA0Ok" width="560" height="315"**

In the movie, Divergent, the society makes people choose a fraction to be in and they threaten anyone who is trying to be independent. So when people get to a certain age, they choose their fraction. The citizens get their finger prick to join a fraction,so the main character parents think that she is going to pick the same fraction her parents are in, but she picks Dauntless. After they pick their fraction they have to take this test and when tris takes it the lady says that she is divergent. She says, “I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.

I am Divergent.” ― [|Veronica Roth] , //[|Divergent] // . She was forced not to tell anybody if not she was going to be killed. Then after she joined a fraction she had to take a test so she had to do a physical test then she made it to join fractions Basically, she makes the decision to be a nonconformist by being different and being herself and that she knows what society is doing. She is being transcendent because she not following the society and she goes against them. And she does whatever she wants.



https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13155899-divergent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_(film

In the Lego movie the materialism is corrupting because they do the same thing everyday.The main characters is different because he had own imaginary mind and he is used to the very day routine and he does the same thing everyday. The materialism is corrupting because everybody bascially does the same thing everyday.They have no freedom.

Roar by Katy Perry I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath Scared to rock the boat and make a mess So I sit quietly, agree politely I guess that I forgot I had a choice I let you push me past the breaking point I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything [Pre-Chorus:] You held me down, but I got up (HEY!) <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Already brushing off the dust <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">You hear my voice, you hear that sound <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Like thunder gonna shake the ground <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">You held me down, but I got up (HEY!) <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Get ready 'cause I've had enough <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I see it all, I see it now <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">[Chorus:] <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Louder, louder than a lion <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh <span style="background-color: #ccccdd; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">You're gonna hear me roar This song has transcendatlism is she trusting her own instinct and not leltting anyone put her down and she is being her self and trusting her own instinct

E. Santiago November 24, 2015

The movie I am Legend from 2007 portrayed “**Trusting One’s Own Instincts”** as its main theme and message. The main character, Robert Neville, is a brilliant scientist who is the only survivor in New York City after an accidental plague is created while trying to find a cure for cancer. Many people today are not able to trust their own instincts because they are so easily influenced by their pupils in their everyday lives. His will to survive was powered by his knowledge of science and wisdom. Although, he lost his family he still found the strength to continue living and researching the mutant humans that were taken over by an unknown and dangerous disease. He risked his life everyday and even captured some to use for his own scientific research. In the end, he is taken out by these very mutants, but finally discovers the cure. He proudly gives the cure to the surviving mother and son he meets and trusts himself enough to engage with them after assessing their reasoning for being there, and his instincts ultimately save his soul. He refused to die without finding a cure especially after losing all the members of his family because of it, and when he finally did so he could leave the world with solace and peace. Trusting his instincts was how he survived.



Works Cited: @http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/iamlegend/

The movie I, Robot from 2004 immensely displays the Transcendental concept **Not Allowing Technology to “Run Us”**, In 2035 a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity. This character is played by Will Smith, and he lives in a technology filled life, but he disagrees with the society that he lives in. Robots are now apart of the community, used to enforce law and to also help those in need of assistance in their everyday lives. He is disgusted by this and feels very discomforted by this idea. It is as if he is the only one who realizes what madness and havoc this will create if it isn’t immediately stopped. In the movie he is assigned to investigate a crime dealing with a robot, and this adds to his discomfort. Ultimately he finds the system that controls the robots and shuts it down because his instincts were right about them and he saves humanity.



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The TV Series Naked and Afraid is about people who are willing to leave their normal lives and abandon conformity to find themselves with nature and live without the daily necessities that we all can’t seem to live without. It takes place in abandoned tropical areas of the world, and it forces the people to adapt to nature and try to survive with what they can make and construct themselves while living there for a time period of 1 month. Once they arrive on the island they must undress themselves and leave everything behind, and all they are given is a knife. Besides this they are left with their own wisdom and thoughts on how to survive. The message of Transcendentalism reflected toward the viewers is **Kinship With Nature to FInd Oneself**.