Part one of term paper
"Who so should be a man is a non-conformist." Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote this great aphorism in his story Self-Reliance. In Self-Reliance, Emerson writes about relying on yourself to make it through life in society and not becoming too enveloped in society. Another aphorism that I like is, "The sky is less grand when it shuts down over less ...

Part two of term paper
... I agree with him. I don't think that you have to act a certain way to be accepted. Emerson's whole point in Self Reliance was basically that you don't have to be accepted to make it through life, because it is not absolutely necessary to sustain life. If you did have to be accepted to sustain life, there would be a lot of dead people in the world. Have you ever heard the saying, "if a tree falls in the woods, would it make a sound?" Well if you have, you will notice a lot of similar th ...