IUF 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Krishna, Land Ethic, Randy Pausch
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Questioning the good life: how the good life has been called into question. Information, control, express an interest, clarify, explore, test encourage, include. Mill girls recruited to work in lowell, ma. Over 8,000 women recruited, as young as age 15. George riley- separation of church and state. Experiment for utopian society- brook farm, started in 1841 with 18 other members. General goals for the farm included individual freedom and humane relationships. Fourierism charles fourier reuniting social classes, voluntary system of labor, and agriculture as the principal industry. Walden"s writing form: literary references, imagery, symbolism, rhetorical figures (metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche), discursive. Themes: self-reliance, self-discovery, simplicity, economy, progress (outward vs inward), and awakening. It"s not what you look at that matters, it"s what you see. Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.