benjamin franklin has many accomplishment some of his greatest are the following five‚ Bifocals‚ Electricity‚ Lightning Rod‚ Franklin Stove‚ Mapping the Gulf Stream. Bifocals are eyeglasses with an upper and lower half‚ the upper for distance‚ and the lower for reading. Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia‚ a condition that Franklin suffered. Franklin wrote‚ in August 1784 to his friend George Whatley‚ that he was "happy in the invention of double spectacles‚ which serving
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Benjamin Franklin Relationship Status: Divorced By Deborah Reed Hometown: Boston‚ Massachusetts Date of Birth: January 1st‚ 1706 Zodiac Sign: Capricorn Body Type: Plump‚ And Medium Length Last Login ~ October 1st 1799 Education: Appleby School in England Occupation: Writer‚ Printer‚ Editor‚ and Businessman Book: Poor Richards Almanac & Pennsylvania Gazette Music: Fine Musician‚ He Played the Violin‚ cello‚ and guitar Five Friends * Thomas Jefferson * George
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Benjamin Franklin 1. Fish & Visitors stink in three days. Don’t stay longer than welcomed you get old just like fish. 2. He that lives upon Hope‚ dies fasting. The person who hopes for everything will die with nothing if they don’t go get it themselves. 3. Tis easy to see‚ hard to foresee. It’s easy to see something but it’s hard to go through with it. 4. The rotten Apple spoils his Companion. Bad people can negatively influence their peers. 5. Don’t throw stones at your neighbours
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Children in the slave trade were treated very poorly. The capture‚ transport‚ and sale of these slave children affected them mentally and physically. There were also many disadvantages and advantages to owning a slave and selling slaves. Some of these documents seem to provide more reliable information than the others. Overall‚ slaves caused more problems than they solved and the actual slaves were permanently scarred from the experience. Due to poor treatment of the slaves‚ they can’t find happiness
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Olaudah Equiano‚ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equino Written by: Olaudah Equiano (1789) What were Equiano’s impression of the white men on the ship and their treatment of the slaves? How does this treatment reflect the slave traders’ concerns? The ship Equiano ended up on was a gruesome terrifying slave and cargo ship. Equiano describes the white men that were on the ship and how the slaves were treated. He goes into detail as to why he felt the way he did and about
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Olaudah Equiano’s‚ a respected former slave and Author of the Autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚ or Gustavus Vassa‚ the African‚ authenticity of his autobiographical account regarding his childhood has been questioned by scholars and historians. Some state that he had only made up his African origin to gain political success whereas others go against that argument. I believe that Equiano’s autobiographical account of his childhood is authentic. Vincent Carretta
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Careful planning of attack and defense are key elements to winning. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano does more than just detail the experiences of a former African slave‚ it sets forth the play sequence between the various players engaged in the slave trade‚ the emotions involved‚ the effects and consequences on the players‚ and the future of the game if it were allowed to continue. Equiano experienced life as a slave on several continents. He endured the torment of the Middle Passage
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going to give you mine. In the autobiography ‘Kidnapped’ written by Olaudah Equiano‚ is one of the first tirmes we hear about the journey of a slave from a firsthand point of view. The thing is‚ can we trust an official document like the Constitution to be true facts just as much as Equiano’s autobiography of the declaration of sentiments to be the most reliable way to report history. The autobiography ‘Kidnapped’‚ by Equiano is his point of view on the journey on slave ships to America. The story
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Franklin‚ Paine and the Age of Enlightenment From the end of the 1700s and through the early 1800s‚ America was beginning to see a change in civilization. People were moving from Puritan thoughts and ways towards a new way of a less superstitious‚ more scientific and intellectual interchange. This movement called the Age of Enlightenment influenced the styles and writings of those like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. The Age of Enlightenment was a period of questioning and appliance of reasoning
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Although both Stephanie Smallwood and Olaudah Equiano did not write their descriptions of slavery in the late sixteenth century to mid seventeenth century from direct experience‚ they both created valuable documents that were as relevant to all readers’ lives then as they are now. Throughout his narrative Olaudah Equiano leaves clues that some of his experiences in his early life are not his own. In 1789‚ when the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was written‚ there were few to no
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