Susanna Dey 19 November 2011 Benjamin Franklin Say the name Benjamin Franklin and you may picture a chubby man with spectacles holding a kite during a lightening storm. Perhaps you picture him a older man with spectacles propped up on his nose standing in a great room full of distinguished gentlemen signing the Declaration of Independence. Both of these facts about Benjamin Franklin’s life would be true. However‚ there was so much more to Mr. Franklin. He was a diplomat‚ a statesman‚ a scientist
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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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9-11:45pm 6 May 2011 Benjamin Franklin’s Influence in 18th Century America Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 6th‚ 1706. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America‚ and was also well known for his writings and inventions. R. V. Jones states that Benjamin Franklin was “the oldest man to sign the Declaration of Independence” he also goes on to say that Franklin “had done more than anyone else to keep America within the British Empire; and now he was to
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If ever a story embodied what has come to be known as the American Dream‚ it is the life story of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin is one of the most talented‚ famous‚ and powerful people in the United States‚ who was part of Five that was to draft the Declaration of Independence. He dedicated almost his life to the Revolution of the United States. Besides being a talented inventor with many significant inventions that have changed the world until now‚ he was a successful politician as well.
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The Autobiography and other Writings of Benjamin Franklin: In this autobiography about Benjamin Franklin I learned a lot of new material I did not know before. Mr. Franklin was born in Boston‚ MA. He was born on January 17‚ 1706. Benjamin is the youngest of five generations of youngest sons. He had 11 brothers and sisters. His father made soap and candles for a living. His mother raised the children. Ben went to school and finished in 1716. Though he would have liked to continue‚ his family was
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Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 Born in Boston Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children born to the parents of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. His father wanted Benjamin to go to school to become a clergyman‚ but he only had enough to send him to school for one year. Clergymen needed years of school. Benjamin ended up being apprenticed to his brother James. James was a printer and Benjamin helped him. When Benjamin was fifteen his brother started the New England Courant. It was
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New Deal Politics New Deal politics and the Great Depression is a time in American history that is often misunderstood. Herbert Hoover is the president seen as allowing the depression to take over the country‚ where as Franklin Delano Roosevelt is seen as the president that effectively saved many Americans‚ and put an end to the Great Depression‚ but what is really true? Herbert Hoover accepted the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1928. In 1929 Herbert
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Eleanor Roosevelt‚ a Progressive Liberator As Eleanor unfolds her husbands clothes‚ she notices something‚ something that is not right. Opening up his suitcase and the aroma of the perfume comes out at her‚ a fragrance that she has never smelled before. She then finds and unravels a bunch of letters from her own secretary‚ Lucy Mercer. She is speechless. Everything suddenly isn’t clear to her anymore. She ponders why do the people she loves the most‚ end up always deserting her. (“Franklin’s Affair
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rights advocate‚ a stateswoman‚ and the First Lady of the United States‚ Eleanor Roosevelt became one of the most respected‚ and cherished woman of her lifetime. Mrs. Roosevelt was born in New York City‚ New York‚ and in her teens was educated in the United Kingdom. She married her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1905‚ and out of six children only 5 survived. When President Roosevelt was a senator in Albany‚ and Secretary of the Navy‚ Mrs. Roosevelt gained her political experience. In 1920
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Ireland. Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ born on January 30‚1882‚ was the second from Hyde Park‚ New York. These two men were leaders during the 1930s and 1940s. I will be comparing and contrasting them. The places they were born was just one difference between them. There are many similarities as well as differences in their political ideologies‚ their treatment of citizens‚ and their goals of leadership. According to Heritage.org‚ Winston Churchill was a statesman in agreement with America’s first principles
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