The Virtue of Industry In Benjamin Franklin “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection‚” he lists 13 virtues. Through extensive studies on the world’s major religions and various moral codes‚ he came up with a list of 13 main virtues that he felt every person should strive to live their life by. Virtue number six‚ industry states “Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.” When Mr. Franklin wrote this virtue he meant hard workers are Gone with
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good would come from giving up but only make things worst. Gardner speaks of Bejamin Franklin repetitvely which makes you believe that Franklin was like a role model to Gardner. The desire for success and the need to provide for his family encouraged Gardner to put his skills to use and become a success. Throughout the movie Gardner shows order and industry. In “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” Franklin speaks about thirteen virtues and the two Gardner has the most are order and industry
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Franklin invented the cooling concept in the year 1758. The idea of cooling through evaporation was essential in the preservation of fresh foods hence contributing a new cooling concept to the food culture in America. In addition‚ Benjamin Franklin had yet another contribution to the American food culture. Franklin published a book by the name Poor Richard’s Almanack that detailed a variety of his personal
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Wealth is a heavy subject combated by both Franklin and the Puritans in both of these articles. While Franklin preached for individual frugality‚ the Puritans preached for the financial unity among the colony‚ as well as free bartering. These two differences in approach are what are make the articles radically unlike to each other. Both take an in-depth view point to each individual’s views and morals on the issue of wealth and how they think everyone else should approach personal wealth. Now let’s
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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was two years old when he was struck by a bolt of lightning at his family’s old farmhouse in Hampton Fall‚ New Hampshire. He tries to make something stir in the world. Sanborn talents were making a stir by “unfailing genius when it came to provoking others” (Fuller pg. 43). Even though‚ he caused trouble a writer named Ralph W. Emerson moved Sanborn with his book of essays. The essays “suggest the world’s possibilities‚ assuring him that reliance upon one’s inner principles”
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Revolution. However‚ the topic of individual rebellion is often overlooked or forgotten. In both Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass recount their very different lives‚ they often speak of times when they took risks and rebelled against authority figures in their lives and how it shaped them into the men they became. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin‚ they both discuss their desires to educate themselves‚ be free from arbitrary or oppressive
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Franklin was born in Rentiesville‚ Oklahoma in 1915 to attorney Buck (Charles) Colbert Franklin (1879-1957) and his wife Mollie (Parker) Franklin. He was named after John Hope‚ a prominent educator who was the first African-American president of Atlanta University. He has a lot of book in 1991‚ Franklin’s students honored him with a festschrift The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin and In 1995‚ President Clinton awarded Franklin the Presidential Medal of Freedom‚ the
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William Byrd II‚ Jonathan Edwards‚ and Benjamin Franklin were three well know and respected me around the same time period and have many qualities in common. Although these men have similar prospects in life‚ they had a very different views in religion. I think this was caused by the different orientation they received as children by their parents‚ their lifestyles‚ and the place where the lived. In the following paragraphs I will explain in detail how these three outstanding men differed in their
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in the chain of causality?” Pertaining to this ‘Great Man Theory’ it can be said that Franklin Delano Roosevelt upheld his victorious and highly regarded government through means of social‚ economic and political reforms‚ as well as ambitious personal and strategic decisions that have successfully remained influential to American society today and maintained his image as a prominent historic leader. Franklin Roosevelt was the 32nd President of America from 1933 – 1945‚ eminent historian Sean J
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In the Americanization of Benjamin Franklin Gordon S. Wood portrays the life of Benjamin Franklin. Through his various life experiences Wood is able examine Benjamin Franklin and give a better understanding of who this man actually was. Franklin was a man who aspired to do something great‚ something that would change the world. He came from Boston‚ a life of “poverty and obscurity in which he was born and bred‚” he left it behind for Pennsylvania where he was able to create‚ “a state of affluence
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