In a speech from the early 1940's, Ezra Pound dismissed Thoreau's project in less that twenty-five words. Pound viewed it as Thoreau's first intellectual reaction to mere approach of industrialization. Thoreau tried to see how little
he need bother about other humanity. Would you agree with Pound that the experiment Thoreau takes up at
Walden Pond demonstrates his indifference to other humans? Why or Why not? (R1.5, 6, 10, W.1abde)

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.