America’s Youth
1. What is the format of “Y.A.”?
Ralph Walso Emerson’s “Young American” is a hybrid of writing formats. He describes his thoughts in a vision, but he also uses his essay a propaganda for ways to solve America’s current problems.
2. What is the article’s thesis?
Youth need to use their power of being American to perpetuate general justice and humanity.
3. What other writers would align with Emerson’s beliefs?
Thomas Jefferson would agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s beliefs, because both thinkers want to empower the nation by empowering the common man.
Extra Credit:Whitney Houston’s “The Greatest Love of All” says that children are the future. Essentially, Emerson is saying that the future of the nation lie with its youth.
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