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Carry It Forward: The Last American Man

By Eva Tumanova

In her blog she was talking about a book she had found that was about a man who ran away from home to live in the woods and how in the woods he had to make his own choices in order to survive. After his time in nature he came back to try and spread his way of seeing the world through transcendentalism, but people found it odd.

This was a really great blog entry. I enjoyed it the most at the end. That you were choosing to follow a dream and not go to college to become something that you are not. I admire that about you. Unfortunately I am not as into transcendentalism as you are so this book would only make me think this man is crazy for leaving society, but I understand that sometimes when you have strict parents it can seem like you cannot do anything no matter what you try. When the protagonist ran into the woods, it seemed almost like a coward thing to do in my opinion. As if he was running from his problems.

Connection: Art and Creativity

By Anne Edwards

In Anne's blog, she talked about how creativity affects art and how art cannot be made without creativity.

Anne, I cannot tell you how much this speaks to me. Ever since I was little I was extremely interested in drawing. Although, I was not very good at drawing especially three-dimensional drawings. So a lot of the time I'll have a creative idea, but I cannot execute the idea without butchering the drawing. Once every blue moon, I will have a decent drawing and will be proud of it and start to try more difficult drawings, but again my art ability is not good enough for my creativity, but when i think about it I'd rather be creative and not artistic than artistic and not creative.