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    Greetings‚ I am Benjamin Franklin. I have done many important jobs over the course of my life. I was a printer‚ publisher‚ inventor‚ scientist‚ philosopher‚ musician‚ and economist to name a few. Growing up in America in the early 1700s‚ I was a strong Patriot and am most proud of the jobs I did that contributed to the Revolutionary War. In being a member of the Second Continental Congress and signing the Declaration of Independence‚ serving as a diplomat‚ and writing and signing the treaty of Paris

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    March 2013 Heather Green En 209- 001 The Other Side of Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin is famously known for using his knowledge to conquer many life achievements such as discovering lightening‚ co-signing The Declaration of Independence‚ and establishing the first American library‚ but all of his ultimate accomplishments would not have been established if he had not have found his niche for writing. In his younger years‚ Franklin rejected attending grammar school and following after his dad

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    Commemorative Speech – Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin once said‚ “If you would not be forgotten‚ as soon as you are dead and rotten‚ either write things worth reading‚ or do things worth the writing”. He was a man certainly worthy of praise as he did both. He lived those words by writing and doing as much as he could. He wrote volumes and volumes of papers‚ almanacs‚ journals‚ and even an autobiography that proved to be very popular. Benjamin Franklin was one of our Founding Fathers. He was a scientist

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    Rosemont‚ Henry. "Benjamin Franklin and the Philadelphia Typographical Strikers of 1786." Labor History‚ no. 22 (1981): 398-429. Henry Rosemont’s article‚ "Benjamin Franklin and the Philadelphia Typographical Strikers of 1786" discusses the history behind the Philadelphia printer’s strike of 1786 and the strikers’ relationship with Benjamin Franklin. According to Rosemont‚ "these were the first American workers who deliberately voted to stand out for a specific wage and to provide mutual assistance

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    effective‚ even Benjamin Franklin himself. Ben Franklin made a speech that was very effective to make us believe that the Constitution at the time still needed to be worked on because it wasn’t perfection. In some ways his speech was also ineffective. Ben Franklin’s speech was effective in many ways. One example would be that even Ben Franklin was willing to change his opinion of the Constitution for the better of the people. He said that the older he got‚ the more he was likely to doubt

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    you topic. The articles do not require Goleman as an author. (B ) Describe what you consider to be the quintessential good leader using additional research literature (in addition to those of the previous Goleman literature review) to support your defense. (C) Using the research from the Goleman literature reviews (category A)‚ and the literature used to describe the quintessential leader (category B )‚ develop a theoretical leadership model with a focus on middle manager leadership qualifications

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    colonial times in American literature‚ many events would occur that would evidently lead to a steady shift in society’s ideals. Following the Puritans arrival to the New World‚ the American Dream was regarded in terms of religious freedom. However as time would progress and America would find itself subservient to Great Britain‚ society would begin to perceive this dream in a different facet. With that being said‚ although the American Dream was constantly altering‚ Benjamin Franklin still believed

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    Shaneka Sanders 12/14/15 Two uniquely American life stories: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Although Benjamin Franklin and Fredrick Douglass began their lives on the opposite sides of the black-white divide in America‚ their personal narratives contain many parallel features. Both suffered a kind of slavery—indentured servitude to his brother in the case of Franklin and actual slavery in the south in the case of Douglass—and both later

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    Benjamin Franklin and Booker T. Washington were both American personalities that assumed great importance in the history of the United States. Franklin was born in 1706‚ in Boston‚ to an English father and an American mother. Washington‚ on the other hand‚ having a family history of slaves‚ did not know his origins or anything about his ancestries. As the author himself says in his autobiography‚ “My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable‚ desolate‚ and discouraging surroundings

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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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