Research Papers Simplified - Laramie County Community College

An Introduction for
Students and Teachers
I’ll never forget the semester when I discovered how the written word
could literally change a person’s life. I was an undergraduate at the
University of Northern Iowa majoring in English, and Dr. Ted Hovet, a
truly inspirational English professor, assigned Henry David Thoreau’s
Walden in an American literature course at UNI. After reading the first
few pages, I felt inspired by the strength of Thoreau’s writing,
especially when he so clearly and convincingly explained the beauty of
living a simple life: ―Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your
affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a
million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb -
nail.‖
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