Thoreau explains his aim to live a simple life. Write about your goals for living. Thoreau uses details that show his goals and values. Be sure that your details reflect your values in life as well

Unlike Thoreau, I don't plan to just live a simple life. As of right now my life is already complicated and stressful but I manage. I have big goals set for myself and I plan to succeed in them. My goals are to graduate high school, go to college to become a paralegal, and have a successful job as a paralegal. As of right now I'm managing to keep my grades up in high school and also plan for after graduation. I plan to be very successful and own a big fancy house and two fancy cars.

What are some modern conveniences we take for granted in our life? Do we really need these items? Explain

Some of the modern conveniences today would be suggested as our cell phones, television, electricity, water, and etc. The main modern conveniences that I would take for granted would be my cell phone, that is something I can't live without. Most would rather choose water, electricity, and etc. I would have to say we really do need these modern conveniences because without them things wouldn't go accordingly. Such as, people wouldn't give or receive important calls, without water people wouldn't be able to take a bath, cook, basically survive, and without electricity people wouldn't be able to see. In conclusion, these things we take for granted is very important and we do need them to survive.

In what ways do people today still struggle with tensions between individuality and conformity?

What is individuality? What is conformity? Well individuality basically means being individual, better yet alone and conformity basically is going alone with a group. Today, people may struggle with tensions between the both of these. This might happen, at school, at home, playing a sport, and etc. At school and home and while playing a sport, many might want to hang by them selfs, on the other hand many might just wanna go alone with a crowd.

In what ways do individuals make a difference in our society?

How do individuals make a difference in our society? Well I honestly think they do this by doing things there way like not following the rules and etc. As you can see today, our society is not that great. Why is that? It's because of the differences individuals make. Some are bad and some are good.

How much power do formal institutions have in our society? Support with specific examples

I would think they have less power than what you would think they'll have in our society. Why do I say that? We'll I say it because if you look at our society today and see who's following rules or either doing things for the church, you wouldn't see many. Why do I say this also? If you look around our community/society all you would manly see is people breaking the rules, people showing violence, and etc.