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Transcendentalist Society Project
You are to select one partner for this project. You have one week (start to finish) to complete this project, so make sure that you select a partner on whom you can depend. You and your partner are going to create your own Transcendentalist Society. Remember that your society must adhere to the ideas common to this mode of thinking... specifically, the ideas of relying on one's self for true happiness, the emphasis on nature, the importance of minimal government intervention, and the belief that humans are innately good. You and your partner will create a PowerPoint presentation that includes and completes all of the following tasks: Slide 1: Select then publish a name for your society. You may create a
name with some meaning (from something you already know) or come up with an
acronym.
Slide 4: Develop a
monetary
system for your society, giving samples of the currency and explaining in
detail how the system works. You and your partner will present your society to the rest of the class. You will explain (not merely read) all of the above aspects to the rest of the class. You will close your presentation with a Q/A session - be prepared to answer any question (think ahead - what might be asked?). You will be graded on your presentation, general effort, creativity and adherence to Transcendentalist ideas.
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After
reading selections from Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman, and discussing the ideas
and concepts prevalent in these pieces of literature, here is an assignment so
that you can more deeply understand the concepts and apply them to your own
ideas of how you think a society "should" be. 
