Academy of Brussels. Franklin believed that the various academic societies in Europe were increasingly pretentious and concerned with the impractical. Revealing his "bawdy‚ scurrilous side‚" [3] Franklin responded with an essay suggesting that research and practical reasoning be undertaken into methods of improving the odor of human flatulence. [1] The essay was never submitted but was sent as a letter to Richard Price‚[4] a Welsh philosopher in England with whom Franklin had an ongoing correspondence
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and cultural nature of the Native Americans. Franklins description of native life are described in such a way as to emphasize some of the failings of his own western society. This essay was written in 1784. In this remarkable essay Franklin makes observations on how the society of Native Americans differs from that of white English America. The main point that Franklin was aiming for is that Native Americans are anything but savages. Franklin wanted to convince people that just because
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in motion‚ and gave humans the power to comprehend all of his establishments. Although Benjamin Franklin did absorb the curiosity which went along with the ideas of the enlightenment‚ Franklin pushed God aside‚ and even criticized religious leaders in his weekly newspaper. He never denied God’s existence‚ rather he focussed on pragmatic political motives‚ as opposed to religion. Although Benjamin Franklin did not put his attention towards‚ or agree with all of the religious views which were popular
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Benjamin Franklin’s letter from Paris‚ he writes to Mary Stevenson‚ a woman who he parted ways with at the Society of Bromley‚ to share his two week Parisian adventure with her while discussing how “traveling is one way of lengthening life.” Franklin writes in his letter about his experiences that he has encountered. He writes‚ “The Roads we found equally good with ours in England‚ in some Places pav’d with smooth Stone like our new Streets…yet there are no Turnpikes.” He compares Paris to
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Shrina Parekh Dr. Kendra ENGL 204 Feb. 25‚ 2013 Who were the real savages? Benjamin Franklin once said “We are all born ignorant‚ but one must work hard to remain stupid.” One of the largest barriers that we face to understand other cultures aside from our own is ignorance. To be ignorant of one another is to disregard their background‚ culture‚ language and ultimately their value as a human being. In Rowlandson’s “The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary
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Miss Polly Baker Benjamin Franklin creates this powerful and intelligent character in the fiction story‚ The Speech of Miss Polly Baker. At the beginning‚ Polly Baker starts out humbly in response to being accused of giving birth to a bastard child for the fifth time. She asks the jury to listen to what she has to say. As she continues to talk‚ Baker starts to make strong arguments against harsh punishments that women are to bear from having an illegitimate child. Franklin using the voice of a woman
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The optimism of people today revolve around too many insignificant instances. “The Autobiography”‚ by Benjamin Franklin‚ shows this. “TRANQUILITY. Be not disturbed at trifles‚ or at accidents common or unavoidable.” (Franklin 81). This virtue means that one should not be in dismay over calamities that can’t be dodged in everyday life. When the boat to Philadelphia was torn at the sails‚ Benjamin and the crew waited out the robust winds. Anxiety is a disorder that makes the average person worry about
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is accomplished. 2. Franklin and Red Jacket both support and defend the Native Americans. What arguments do they make in common? What prompted the writing of each piece? Do you find both authors reliable? Why or why not? a. First‚ both authors make a same argument stating that natives are peaceful and flexible. Anyhow‚ it outcomes that after they are abused and taken their lands from them‚ they react differently in order to defend what is theirs. However‚ both Benjamin Franklin and Red Jacket mention
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The book is filled with “mini-biographies” on all the different people that had to do with this act. The sources Slack used were both primary and secondary sources. Some of the Primary sources he used were writings by James T. Callender‚ Benjamin Franklin Bache‚ and John Adams. The secondary sources were those written by historians or highly educated college graduates. Charles Slack did not have a strong bias on this subject. He sided with the citizens against the Sedition Act but he provided the
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generation to look back at and learn about what the world was like back then and what Ben Franklin did and how he came from nothing to being put on the 100 dollar bill. My proposal would be to re publish his autobiography‚ I know it’s gonna take money to do that‚ but if you re publish the autobiography I am sure that a profit will be made. Ben Franklin’s writing is a hard writing to ignore and to think its boring‚ Franklin uses a sense of humor in his writing. He uses his own style which is terse and witty
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