In this term’s lecture I learned new way of thinking from three people, they are Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. Emerson was a philosopher, Thoreau a writer and Whitman a poet. I think they have same kind of idea but their way of expressing it was different. Then what is the same kind of idea? I think it is transcendentalism. First, Emerson expressed this idea through his lecture. Second, Thoreau moved Emerson’s idea into action. This summary of action is his work “Walden”. Third, Whitman expressed Emerson’s idea through his poem. In this paper I want to mention this stream of Transcendentalism.
NIMBY is an acronym of Not-In-My-Back-Yard, and usually associated with an opposition against the construction of infrastructure facilities or human service facilities by residents. Developers often accuse people of opponents for their NIMBYism as selfishness and often taken up as a problematic social phenomenon. However, some argue that NIMBYism is not valid. This essay will consider the arguments by concentrating on the wind farm development and the opposition towards the construction.