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English 124: Literature & Environment Final Presentation

Directions: For your final presentations, each of you will spend 5-10 minutes discussing a central thematic element of the course. Your selection is entirely up to you, and you should reference at least 3 things we’ve read throughout the course of the semester. During your presentation, please touch on the following: 1) your central thematic element, 2) how the 3 readings highlight/enhance/tie together this theme, and 3) what you gained in your understanding of literature and the environment. You must create a visual of some kind (PowerPoint, Prezi, website, etc.) to enhance your presentation. I will use the Oral Presentation Rubric to grade your final presentations (100 points).

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Required Texts

Anderson, Slovic, and O’Grady’sLiterature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture, 2/E (ISBN: 978-0205229352)

Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (ISBN: 1494812509)

H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau (ISBN: 0553214322)

And ( Into the Wild 2007 move).

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On Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau lived for over two years in a cabin he had built on Walden Pond. During
that time, Thoreau recorded the material that was to appear in his second book, Walden and "Civil
Disobedience”, which became one of the most influential and well known books ever written. Thoreau
tried help everyone appreciate nature and the real meaning of life. Man didn't listen for the most part
but Thoreau's book of principles to follow still helps people get the most out of life. Thoreau did not
like to be judged so he learned not to judge other people but to accept them for who they were. He had
very high standards which even he had difficulty reaching. He lived his life in a constant search for
truth and beauty. He wanted to understand life better and help mankind.
Thoreau writes in the first person as if it were a diary. He was a humble man who many
perceived as anti-social and elitist but he was far from that. He just wanted to be alone and connect
with nature. Thoreau understood that he had to work and even though writing was what he wanted to
do most, carpentry and surveying provided him enough money to live on. Thoreau reduced his needs to
only what was absolutely necessary. "I learned that it would cost incredibly little to obtain one's
necessary food. (Civil Disobedience) In Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience”, he discusses the need
to prioritize social consciousness over the unquestioning allegiance to government policy. "Civil
Disobedience” was a rallying call for those who were looking for a new social conscious movement.
Thoreau's essay argues that a government has little value if it obtains its power to govern from the
majority of the masses on the basis that they are the strongest group. He contends that a citizen's first
obligation is to stand up for his or her beliefs of what is right and no...


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