Literacy Response: The Speech of 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
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history books and teachers don’t tell you about the freemasons and there shaping of the United States of America. We will start with freemasons an agency that has been shaping history since the building of King Solomon’s temple. 2. George Washington‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ John Hancock‚ Benedict Arnold‚ and General Henry “Hap” Arnold were all freemasons‚ a brotherhood of man‚ based on the principles of brotherly love‚ relief‚ and truth.2 Freemasons show tolerance and respect for the opinions of others and
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In his lifetime he served as a philosopher‚ revolutionary‚ and a political theorist. Paine is considered one of the founding fathers of the US; along with some great gentlemen like Benjamin Franklin‚ George Washington‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and other great names. He was the author of two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution along with inspiring the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain
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BACKGROUND PAPER ON AGENCY AND EVENTS 1. There were several Freemasons who participated in the drafting of the United States Constitution. It was after the ratification of the constitution that Benjamin Franklin‚ while pointing to a chair‚ was overheard saying‚ "Throughout the days we have been laboring here‚ I have observed that sun‚ and wondered whether it was a rising sun or a setting sun. Now I know it was a rising sun."1 We all heard the stories growing up about the great men that founded
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History Thomas Jefferson who was the 3rd president of United States of America is the one of the most important people in American history. He joined 1st and 2nd Continental Congress and he wrote the Declaration of Independence with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. After Alexader Hamilton made and became the Federalist party which believed in strong center government‚ he made Democratic-Republican party which believed in individual states power and became the leader of Democratic-Republican. On 1800
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Joe J Cohan Prof. Huber Writing Assignment #1 The Americanization of Ben Franklin As human beings age‚ the opportunity to move up through the social hierarchy seems to disappear. In Gordon S. Wood’s biography‚ The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin‚ he tells a unique story that allows us to take a deeper look into almost every social class of the 18th century. As Franklin makes his way through the social hierarchy‚ Gordon Wood paints a picture of what society was like and how it works
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Aristotle was correct when he said that “moral excellence comes about as a result of habit”. Religions and many successful people of the world have made a habit of committing moral acts in order to achieve their moral excellence and sense of virtue. Anyone can achieve moral excellence as long as they develop the habits that can take them to the level that they wish to reach. In the religion of Christianity Aristotle’s beliefs are intact. In the bible Christians are told of commandments that they
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A Moment in Boston History Boston‚ Bloody‚ Boston is a documentary that depicts actual events that happened in the year 1765. The history of when and whom the key players leading up to the Revolutionary War in Boston is the focus on this mini-series. As historians can focus on the true story of what happen in Boston‚ there is often times some misconceptions of what we can perceive as truth. Many documents and photographs were all truth telling to make this documentary as true as possible. Interviewing
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| 46 Pages: Book Review | | Tim IveyMarch 13‚ 2012Daryl SequeiraHistory 111 - 5001 | | | | In 46 Pages author Scott Liell is able to poignantly illustrate the colonies metamorphosis from a dependent arm of the English Empire to an independent country‚ the catalyst for which was Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Liell is able to not only articulate the turning point of the American consensus towards independence‚ but he also very intelligibly depicts the sentiments of all facets of
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Indian War ended in 1763‚ Americans divided sides in their feelings toward Great Britain. They divided into two completely different sides by calling themselves the patriots and loyalists. Patriots such as George Washington‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and Benjamin Franklin‚ wanted to break away from Great Britain‚ supported a revolution and form their own country. On
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