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one characteristic of the American Romantic hero is a sense of honor based on some high principal
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One characteristic of the American Romantic hero is a sense of honor based on some high principle.

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Some of Washington Irvings storys was based on german folk tales.
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Some of Washington Irving’s stories were based on German folk tales.

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Was Rip Van Winkle lazy or was he just a good natured man which enjoied not doing to much.
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Was Rip Van Winkle lazy, or was he just a good-natured man who enjoyed not doing too much?

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among american writers of the nineteenth-century there was intellectual ferment
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Among American writers of the nineteenth century, there was intellectual ferment. [hyphen deleted]

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The formation of various utopian groups were a result of this ferment.
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The formation of various utopian groups was a result of this ferment.

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The word transcendental refers to the idea, that one must go beyond every day experience
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The word transcendental refers to the idea that one must go beyond everyday experience. [comma deleted]

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Transcendentalists were idealists, they beleived in human perfectibility.
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Transcendentalists were idealists; they believed in human perfectibility.

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Emerson begun to give public lecture’s to supplement his meager income.
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Emerson began to give public lectures to supplement his meager income.

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he demanded that american scholars free themselves from the passed.
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He demanded that American scholars free themselves from the past.

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William Cullen Bryant was only sixteen years’ old when he wrote the poem thanatopsis
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William Cullen Bryant was only sixteen years old when we wrote the poem “Thanatopsis.”

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I couldn’t of wrote a poem like that when I was sixteen my Dad said.
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“I couldn’t have written a poem like that when I was sixteen,” my dad said.

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The movie Dead Poets Society include quotations from Thoreaus book Walden.
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The movie Dead Poets Society includes quotations from Thoreau’s book Walden.

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About twenty eight dollars are how much Thoreau spent, to build his house at Walden pond.
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About twenty-eight dollars is how much Thoreau spent to build his house at Walden Pond. [comma deleted]

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In this here letter martin luther king jr explains his veiws on the difference between just and unjust laws.
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In this letter Martin Luther King, Jr., explains his views on the difference between just and unjust laws. [here deleted]

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some of the masterpeices of American literature was written in the nineteenth century
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Some of the masterpieces of American literature were written in the nineteenth century.