Part one of term paper
Ralph Waldo was a leader of Transcendentalism which was a literary and philosophical movement that began in the United States in 1836. Transcendentalists did not agree with the strict ritualism of established religious institutions. They supported individualism and self- examination. They believed that they could understand themselves be ...

Part two of term paper
... at the famous First Church in Boston. His mother, Ruth Haskins was the daughter of a cooper and distiller. He was the fourth of six children in his family. Three of his brothers were very intelligent. Of the other two, one was mentally retarded and lived most of his life in institutions. The other was insane for a time. was a serious young boy who was liked by elders more than those of his own age. He never went out to play with the boys because he liked doing things that had to do ...