difficult to obtain‚ and more of a hazard to drink because of the diseases they carried. Coffee and tea were still more expensive than alcohol‚ and it was given at every event you could think of (ex: auctions‚ meetings‚ funerals‚ and weddings). Benjamin Rush’s moral thermometer is a scale of all the alcoholic beverages. It gives you some insight on how alcohol has an effect on the human mind‚ and body; whether it be for healthy development‚
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Teddy Park Mr. Valassidis Period 1‚ AP English Language & Composition September 29‚ 2012 Banneker Rewrite In 1791‚ Benjamin Banneker‚ the lowly son of former slaves‚ wrote to Thomas Jefferson‚ the great framer of the Declaration of Independence and advocate for equality‚ urging Jefferson to see the hypocrisy and injustices of slavery in the colonies. During this post-Revolutionary time‚ slavery was still prevalent in the colonies which bewildered many as America embedded its roots in the
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Aye there me mateys‚ I be Benjamin Cooper. I’m the captain aboard thee Blue Dragon‚ she be a mighty vessel for sailing the seven seas! As you may have noticed‚ I seem to be missing me right leg. Listen here lads and lassies‚ I be telling you thee tale of the stormy night over the Northern Atlantic‚ were I was ambushed by the mighty Barry. But‚ I must tell you me own backstory before we get to Barry! I was born in London‚ England on December 7‚ 1808. My father‚ Edward Cooper‚ was in the Navy
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Benny Goodman was a great jazz clarinet player and the leader of one of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (1935–1945). In fact‚ Time magazine dubbed him "the King of Swing." Benjamin David Goodman was born in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ on May 30‚ 1909‚ into a large‚ poor Jewish family. His parents‚ who had moved to the United States from Eastern Europe‚ were Dora and David Goodman. He first started playing clarinet at a local Chicago synagogue when he was about ten. He learnt the clarinet
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Benjamin Franklin’s “Autobiography” embodies the ideals of the self-made American man—one who‚ through sheer hard work and moral cultivation‚ fashions his own economic and social status regardless of the circumstances he was born into. Although Autobiography seeks to inspire readers with a sincere devotion to virtue‚ Franklin’s own devotion as depicted at certain points in the work seems casual at best. The indulgent character of Franklin’s moral outlook could be seen particularly in this passage
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As a particularly judgmental reader‚ I depend on narrator reliability a lot. Novels‚ for the most part‚ are tales of the human struggle and experience and all of the mistakes and successes they come along with. If I am reading about every dirty little secret in a family‚ I need at least an accurate portrayal of their motivations in order to come to a conclusion on their characters. From personal experience‚ I can say that one of the hardest parts of coming from a unhappy or divorced couple family
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Authors Benjamin Barber and Diane Ravitch write about America and how society is standing idle and failing to address the issue on education. Barber’s “America Skips School” focuses on the cold - shoulder approach America takes towards its children’s education‚ while Ravitch’s “Back to Basics: Test Scores Don’t Lie” takes a different approach to the rebuff caused by peer pressure to specific races and sexes. Both essays present a common point of view by combining various nonfiction elements:
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one of my favorites because it relates to what I said to the top that it’s all opinion base and not factual because one could be happy doing something but another person could be doing the same exact thing but sad/depressed. It the essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 1985 said; The desire of happiness in general is so natural to us that all the world are in pursuit of it; all have this one end in view‚ though they take such different methods to attain it‚ and are so much divided in their notions
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“Background” “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” was thought by himself to be “the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection”. It refers to when he was in his twenties‚ around 1726‚ he found himself jobless; penniless; in debt and suddenly a single father. He was very intelligent and he knew there was definitely something wrong in his life and he was eager to make a change. So he wrote this autobiography not only to tell his son about his life but also to improve his financial
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A hero is a person who believes that their enemy is not inherently malevolent‚ but also has wit and bravery. A good example of a hero is Benjamin Church. Church was an Englishman who went from leading a small group of men to leading an army. Church was brave‚ although he was injured he returned to war. church was also compassionate‚ he is against englishman who enslave or kill innocent Indians. Lastly Church had wit‚ his tactics for building an effective army and planned attacks were what brought
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