Consenting Fathers: Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson Though Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were contemporaries‚ their views‚ backgrounds and modes of influence were very different. Benjamin Franklin was born of a large and poor family and rose to become a model of the emerging bourgeois classes in the American Colonies. Throughout his long and life‚ Franklin succeeded in business‚ science‚ and excellent statesmanship. Thomas Jefferson‚ however‚ rose out of an affluent family to become
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John Adams‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ John Jay‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison‚ and George Washington‚ all great men who founded our country. Each one with a different background‚ that changed their future. One of those men‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ was a well-known scientist‚ printer‚ politician‚ freemason‚ inventor‚ and much more. He had a different childhood‚ from what you might see today‚ but still came out being the brilliant man that he was. Like all of us he had dreams‚ but that wasn’t
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his own university‚ and invented several pivotal technological advances‚ Benjamin Franklin – one of America’s leading forefathers – was a prominent‚ innovative leader‚ whose ideas and life achievements were important to the founding of America and led to the creation of the idea of the American Dream. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1706 to a large lower-middle class family. In his autobiography‚ Franklin works his way up through the class system until he becomes a famous scientist
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John Smith and Benjamin Franklin were both remarkable men known for their writings and works. There are many similarities between these two men‚ such as they were both authors. There are also many differences. John Smith “served as a foot soldier for the English in the Scottish Lowlands” (pg.16) and he was also an adventurer. Benjamin Franklin was a “-scientist‚inventor‚ educator‚ statesmen...and foremost a printer.” (pg.94). Here are some of the comparisons between Franklin and Smith. As I had
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Benjamin Franklin is known for many things. Being the face of the hundred dollar bill‚ a writer‚ signing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution‚ or even as an inventor. What many people don’t know‚ is that Benjamin Franklin had created what he called ‘his plan’. He followed this plan until he was 79 years old. It was at 79 that we wrote about his life. One of the stories he tells is the speckled axe. I think that the speckled axe can provide guidance to any teenager. Benjamin Franklin’s
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Benjamin Franklin is credited for this saying. It was published in his book‚ Poor Richard’s Almanack. Benjamin Franklin‚ the man who revolutionized electricity‚ was also one of the U.S.’s founding fathers. Franklin made huge contributions to the political foundation of the United States and Franklin also had a genius mind for invention. He cleaned and lit the roads of Philadelphia’s streets. The creation of the Library Company was a chief accomplishment by Franklin in his era. His aid to the Philadelphia’s
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Brooks Pd. 2 The essay Citizen Ben: A worldly American’s Seven Great Virtues by Walter Isaacson is an essay begins talking about Benjamin Franklin. When we think of Benjamin Franklin our minds automatically turn to the story about him flying a kite in a lightening storm with a rod on to prove that lightening was electricity. This is one thing that Franklin did but he did many more as well‚ in fact it says that he was an inventor diplomat‚ writer and business strategist. He helped bring the
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Have you ever wanted to know more about Benjamin Franklin? I mean we learn about him in our history books‚ for the kite experiment‚ and help develop the Declaration of Independence‚ but there is so much more. Like his early childhood‚ what he did when he was a child‚ some of his favorite hobbies. Or have you ever wondered what else he did‚ because he has invented to so many machines‚ and helped change America. Even though Franklin is gone‚ there are still some people who share some traits with him
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From Rags to Riches: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States. He helped write the Declaration of Independence‚ and co-wrote the U.S Constitution. However‚ he is remembered more as the face on the $100 bill than the man that invented electricity. Despite all of his accomplishments and contributions in the United States‚ Franklin believed himself to be more of a scientist than a political thinker. This irony is evident is his autobiography
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people don’t realize how different the world would be if Benjamin Franklin never started his kite and key experiment. The world may have never evolved into the world we live in today. How did the idea of electricity come up? That is a question a lot of people wonder. Benjamin Franklin was around the age of 46 when he began his electricity experimentation. One experiment included his kite and key experiment which took place in June of 1752. Benjamin let a kite fly while there was lighting outside. The
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