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Based on the first paragraph of the essay "self-reliance," what are emerson's beliefs about self-reliance? cite evidence from the text to support your response.

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Even in the first paragraph of his famous essay, Emerson turns the notion of wisdom upside down - wisdom is not the essence of great people's thought. Wisdom is the essence of your own thought, and self-reliance is the courage to believe yourself, instead of always relying on others. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius" - Emerson thinks that the real genius is in the individual that seeks universality, and dares to become universal. People who are perceived as the wisest, such as Plato, Moses, etc., are actually those who have listened to their intuition and were brave enough to make a statement of it, instead of listening to others and interpreting them. "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Our rejected thoughts are the consequence of the fact that we lacked the courage to admit and declare those thoughts as our own, unique, original, wise.

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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