Nature vs Self-Reliance

I think that both essays by Emmerson are relevant to my life. I agree with Emmersons theories in Nature but Self-Reliance is a little more applicable to my everyday life. I like the ideas Emmerson portrays in Nature regarding age and nature awareness. I feel like it's definetly true that as you age you become more tangled up in society and less concious about your natural surroundings.
Every part of Self-Reliance seems to be relevant to my everyday life. I like the basic ideas that "you don't know unless you try" and "only you know your capabilities." Working for yourself and not society seems to be the basic rule.

High School Development

Through out my high school career I believe that I've made a lot of proggress in my writing skills. The most notable differences are in my transitions and conclusions. When I was a freshman I would use very generic transitions and conclusions along with bland topic sentences. My proggression started in Mrs. Gilman's English 10 class because we had a lot of essay five part paragraph assignments.
My abilities continued to develop as I went into tenth grade. In Mrs. Powers class we read the Lord of the Flies along with the Power of One and wrote multiple essays on each. The oval graphic organizers for five part paragraphs given in both English 9and English 10 were what really helped my orgizational skills and made my essays better overall.