After having read the selections of two American Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, locate and present one unique concept that either Emerson or Thoreau presents in one of the assigned readingsand tell how that concept has influenced more modern ideas and/or events.

Be sure to cite your source(s) at the bottom of your post.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Introduction (178-181), "The American Scholar" (210-223), "The Divinity School Address" (223-236), "Self-Reliance" (236-253)
• Henry David Thoreau: Introduction (950-952), "Resistance to Civil Government" (953-968), from Walden, Chapter 2: "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" (1012-1022)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Introduction (328-332), "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux" (332-345), "Young Goodman Brown" (345-354), "The Birth-Mark" (377-388).