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George Eliot, an English Victorian novelist from the 19th century once said, "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." With more clarification, Eliot asserts that flawed leadership is to be expected and should not stop progress. I support her assertion because we are not perfect human beings nor do we have to pretend to be. Some individuals think its necessary for us to be the best versions of ourselves, some don't. With the recent events going on in society, it’s evident that even with flawed leadership, justice can quite progress. Although generation Z has been quite mad, the worst events of them all happened to be the triumph of Donald Trump’s presidential election. However, with him being the dreadful president he is, he has established some progress. Despite his xenophobia and sexist comments he’s made whether it was in his speeches or over social media, society responded by protesting, creating hashtags on the intern...

When you think of transcendentalism, you immediately think of famous poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau, although she doesn’t exactly fell into the category of transcendentalism, she was well-reguarded of Emerson. Some of Dickinson’s poems seemed to be transcendental, yet not quite. She followed and pursued dark romanticism trusting that the mentally angst of agony happens to be more terrifying rather than any physical distress one can experience. Dickinson believes that one’s anguishing physical happenings can conduct to mental suffering. As any typical human being, we all have emotions even though at times we don’t want to admit it. We go through the happy emotions as well as the sad, raging, haunting ones. For example, heartbreaks. Those are the worst whether you have lost a loved one or your significant other who has decided to leave you. Heartbreaks can have an individual experience it both mentally and physically whether it leads to depression, low-self ...