Body of a sample e-mail: The public library is essential to our community. Students need a safe and quiet place to complete their homework. However, the city council plans to cut the library's hours. This will limit students' time to study and conduct research after school. I am writing to urge you to vote against these cuts. If the budget is an issue, perhaps volunteers from the local community college can help staff the library. Use the body of the sample e-mail to a city official to answer the questions. What is the viewpoint? The city council plans to cut library hours. The public library is essential. The budget is an issue.

henry david thoreau and ralph warren emerson earned the name transcendentalists.you could assume that transcendentalists come from a well educated background from people that were alive before the american civil war.these people, mostly new englanders, mostly around boston, were attempting to create a uniquely american body of literature. it was already decades since the americans had won independence from england. and so they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that were clearly different from anything from england, france, germany, or any other european nation.another way to look at the transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made available.