The paper needs to be between 3-4 pages long, with an intro and conclusion paragraph. The entire paper as well as the bibliograpgy (please include one for sources) should be in MLA***.
Min of 5 scholarly sources – first or second hand documents (either by Emerson or scholarly peer reviewed lit reviews or essays) MINUMUM OF FIVE CITATIONS-ONE PER SOURCE
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-please include links to sources
Approved working thesis: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Philosophy places nature as a higher power.
~feel free to modify as needed
NOTE: Nature is not THE higher power (ie god), it is a higher power used to help us chanel our divity
possible points to include or build off of:
1)healing in nature and holistic medicine compared to the healing of god
2)historical commitment to nature (most of his feelings were based on Native American teachings)
3)national parks as places of “worship”
4)meditaion, mindfullness, and praying
5)creation and harmony between earth and people
***MLA requirments
>double spaced
>12pt times new roman font
>1 space after punctuation
>1 inch margins
>5 space indent for each new paragraph
>title centered (optional, I can come up with a title as well)
>when citing books are italics-poems or database articles get quotations
>in text citation example- “blah blah blah,” (author, pg #).
