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WebMD

Web Md: The Mysterious 'Medication' of Meditation

For Students 9th - 10th
WebMD features an article on the medical uses of meditation.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Culture of Common Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Excerpts From "Self Reliance"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Emerson's famous essay emerging from the Transcendentalist period that celebrates unfettered individualism.
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2 D Curves

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of almost 700 mathematical curves. It contains a good deal of information about logarithms as well as exponential functions.
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Other

Meditation Station

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website of the Meditation Society of America offers information on what constitutes meditation with 108 meditation techniques, meditation classes, and links to related sites.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation: Adrienne Rich

For Students 9th - 10th
Adrienne Rich is featured in this brief biography for her contributions as a contemporary feminist poet and prose author. See "Adrienne Rich Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: History of American Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article features a brief history of American literature.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Johann Gottleib Fichte

For Students 9th - 10th
Entry from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Has a thorough biography and includes links to major works in translation. Also has an excellent bibliography for extensive research.
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Curated OER

Krsna and Arjuna Sounded Their Transcendental Conchshells.

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers descriptions and pictures painted by members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), illustrating the story of Arjuna and Krishna.
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Other

University of South Florida: Emily Dickinson: "I Dwell in Possibility"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Four peer-reviewed essays by university students analyzing aspects of Dickinson's poem, "I dwell in Possibility." One essay reveals that Dickinson developed her own philosophy that bridges the conflict between Puritanism and...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Reading Guide: Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Thoreau offers in this excerpt from Walden the Transcendentalist observation that each human must search for religious meaning within himself and not as a quest to glorify God.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: William Cullen Bryant and Philip Freneau

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two poems examining divinity and concluding that while God is benevolent, one appreciates God either through a romantic lens or a rationalist calculation. Poems are William Cullen Bryant's, "To a Waterfowl," and Philip Freneau's, "On the...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Religion: Henry David Thoreau

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Emerson's Major Themes

For Students 9th - 10th
Houghton Mifflin site has an entry that discusses major themes, historical issues, writing style, audience, and literary criticism for Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Contains discussion/study questions and a bibliography.
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University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and search for thirty poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, taken from the book "Early Poems." Includes a brief biography of Emerson.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum

For Students 9th - 10th
By using music and various writings, students will explore the advantages and disadvantages of conforming to society's expectations at this site.
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Other

Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association: Bronson Alcott Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association site features this profile of her father, the educator and transcendentalist writer Amos Bronson Alcott.
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Other

Philosophers: Margaret Fuller's Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
This profile of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) reveals why she is sometimes called "the most important woman of the nineteenth century." Discussion includes her literary criticism, journalism, and her feminist manifesto, Woman of the...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge His of Eng and Am Lit: Place of Emerson in Amer Letters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This chapter from vol. XV of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature is the starting point of an extensive resource for students who wish to study the life and works of this major American literary figure. Includes...
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University of Michigan

Making of America: Ralph Waldo Emerson, by A. Bronson Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Michigan offers this reproduction of Bronson Alcott's work as part of their Making of America series. A search feature allows users to search using boolean operators or a proximity search as well as more basic keyword.
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Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
This Poets.org entry for the 19th century American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) provides biographical information, a select bibliography, and contemporary photograph as well as links to related writers...
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Stanford University

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Plato's Ethics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia entry provides an extensive discussion on Plato's Ethics and his attempt to create a philosophy of achieving the highest aim of moral thought and conduct.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: The Romantic Period, 1820 1860: Essayists and Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Romanticism: "The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
"The American Scholar" is a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work "Nature" in which he...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Romanticism: "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Students 9th - 10th
"Self-Reliance" is an essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid...

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