Bellwrite: What is nature?
We discussed Turner's argument that the shifting frontier was key to shaping the American identity as generations of Americans relived the birth and evolution of new societies along the advancing frontier. Each generation was permitted to return to the simplicity of primitive society, stripping it of European traditions and allowing a new American identity to be continuously reborn. We considered the ways in which the land in which we live shapes our identities. Many Utahans find themselves the direct product of ancestors who partook of the frontier life described by Turner. Utah, a separate territory from the United States when the Saints first arrived, was permitted to develop a unique cultural identity founded in core gospel principles and the pioneering spirit of industry and frugality.
We then began reading about Ralph Waldo Emerson, the father of the American Transcendentalist movement. We will continue reading together next week.
No homework.
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