Why do we celebrate the 4th of July? Most people in the United States celebrate the 4th of July‚ but do you know exactly why the holiday is so important to our country? Imagine how you would feel if someone older than you (maybe an older sister or brother) kept telling you what to do all of the time and kept taking more and more of your allowance. That is how the colonists felt in the years leading up to 1776. Great Britain kept trying to make the colonists follow more rules and pay higher taxes
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The Benjamin Franklin You Never Knew Famous Person Report By: Ian McGowan-Jepsen For: Mrs. Crawford My famous person is named Benjamin Franklin. This book describes Benjamin Franklin as a self-improvement genius‚ inventor‚ businessman‚ scientist‚ world traveler‚ community organizer‚ and a generous person to everyone. He was the first American who was famous in both America and Europe. In this report I will list five important facts about Mr. Franklin’s
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The biography “Benjamin Franklin” by Edmund S. Morgan starts his book by telling us about Franklin’s passions. Then he briefly talks about one of the most famous parts of his autobiography‚ Franklin’s list of thirteen virtues. He then jumps into telling us about how the common thought that Jefferson’s main goal was to acquire wealth. He did say that debt and poverty were his puritan ancestors conception of hell‚ but according to Morgan Franklin’s idea of heaven was not riches‚ but actually contentment
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"Where do all the hippies go?" Dorjan Dheskali Mosaic II - spring 2012‚ Section 066 Professor J. Benin South Street. The home of punk rockers‚ hippies‚ poets‚ musicians‚ food fanatics‚ and everything in between. How has it become so popular amongst all who to the naked eye have nothing in common? Why has it become a home to such diversity‚ a refuge to arts of all kind? Cultures and ethnicities and languages all different‚ yet what seems to make them all connect? It ’s not anything
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carpenters‚ black smiths‚ shoemakers and others who made their living producing household goods to sell. Ben Franklin became an apprentice to his brother‚ also a leather apron‚ when he was 12 years old. When he was 17 years old he ran away to Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. One of the reasons he is most well-known was for discovering electricity. As most people know‚ he went out one day with a kite and a key tied to the kite in stormy weather. The weather was not actually a lightning storm; it was
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Tiffany Bedford Professor Forsythe March 1‚ 2014 The life of Benjamin Franklin was one consumed with ambition to improve himself in furtherance of achieving his goals and beyond. By undertaking the challenge of improving himself in several aspects of his life‚ Franklin was able to become a successful inventor‚ newspaper publisher‚ business person‚ and political leader between the 1750s and 1790. The Autobiography serves as a guide for his son and others to learn how to overcome hardships in
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because they felt that it was unrighteous of their father to have taken advantage of his working slaves . At the age of 12 Sarah broke the law by teaching an enslaved child how to read or write. After moving to Philadelphia in 1819‚ both sisters joined the Society of Friends‚ a Quaker foundation formed by George Fox around 1660. Angelina was engaged for a while but her fiancé died in an epidemic. Sister Sarah was also offered marriage
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James would provide him with food‚ clothing‚ and a new suit on his 21st birthday.(Great Life of Benjamin Franklin) After five years‚ Ben ran away to New York and work as a printer there.(Great Life of Benjamin Franklin) He failed and sailed off to Philadelphia where he found a job as a printer.(Great Life of Benjamin Franklin) Word got out that a 17 year old runaway found work as a printer to the governor.(Great Life of Benjamin
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children to Josiah Franklin. At a young age Benjamin’s future was already decided for him‚ and to please his father he followed suit. However Benjamin found reading and writing to be so fascinating that it pushed him to leave his family and move to Philadelphia where the journey of who he would become began. Benjamin didn’t come from poverty‚ in fact he came from a wealthy family who owned a printing business‚ he was also the right race and gender to be successful in his time. So although he was incredibly
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Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography From reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin‚ who throughout his life Benjamin Franklin was known for being in many different trades‚ from a publisher‚ an inventor‚ a diplomat‚ to a political philosopher‚ I have come to learn that his life was about doing what he needed to become successful. Benjamin Franklin has written his autobiography in a unique and unified way‚ but also in some ways very disjointed making the effectiveness of the theme detracted‚ which
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