Emerson and Thoreau each write in the genre of essay. The word essay comes from the Latin root exigere, meaning "to examine or test." In what ways is this genre appropriate for the work of both Emerson and Thoreau?

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were leading transcendentalist and philosophers. They came up with theories and theories need proof, or explanation, to be deemed true. When publishing their beliefs, they used essays to structure their findings/theories so that the facts could back up their statement.

Explanation:

Simply: they're philosophers creating a new branch of philosophy so they are using a formal writing style that structures their theories.

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the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.