born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ was one of the Founding fathers of the United States and one of the most brilliant and versatile men in America. He proudly described himself as a printer‚ but he was also a journalist‚ scientist‚ inventor‚ author‚ diplomat and statesman. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He is also known for his early scientific research in the field of electricity. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading
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“Do you want to know who you are ? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” -Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was born in Virginia on April 13‚ 1743 and later died on July 4‚ 1826. Jefferson grew up in the Shad well ‚ Virginia where his father peter Jefferson was very wealthy. Jefferson and his family moved to Tuckahoe in 1745 ‚ and later his father died in 1775. He is the third of ten children. On June 11‚1776 anticipated that the vote for independence would be unfavorable. Something that
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Not only one of America’s Founding Fathers‚ Benjamin Franklin is one of the world’s most influential human beings. Most people recognize him as the face of a hundred dollar bill or the elementary school lesson of his kite in a storm discovering electricity. He was a scientist‚ an inventor‚ a printer‚ a philosopher‚ a musician‚ an economist‚ and of course a statesman. With his tremendous intellectual gifts‚ Franklin introduced devices to society that benefited America as a whole. Franklin’s most famous
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Massachusetts to founder of the Boston Committee of Correspondences‚ he never stepped aside and allowed a tyrant to control his life‚ making him one of the most influential founding fathers. Born on September twenty seventh‚ 1772 in Boston Massachusetts Adams was always right in the thick of the conflicts Americans dealt with. His Father‚ Samuel Adams Sr.‚ was a successful
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The Founding Fathers of Psychology PS210 Kaplan University Professor‚ Nichola Cohan Jaclyn Gosciak July 1‚ 2013 In this paper‚ I will discuss psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus and his contributions to the psychology field. Which then I will evaluate his contributions and explain their importance to psychology today. Ebbinghaus is well known for his discovery of the forgetting curve. Ebbingahus has made several other significant contributions to psychology
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John Jay‚ a Founding Father of the United States‚ served the new nation in both law and diplomacy. He held the position of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as well as a variety of other top government positions. The New York native drafted the state’s first constitution in 1777 and the following year was chosen president of the Continental Congress. He then became U.S. minister to Spain‚ helping to broker the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. Jay was appointed
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social reform because once she married her sole occupation would become her husband’s household. Additional in England Dorothy met and befriended Dr. Tuke an advocated for the reform of the mentally insane. Tuke introduced Dorothea to the unjust world of the mentally ill‚ acting as a catalyst for the most extensive Asylum reform in America.
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William Wordsworth as Founding Father of Romantic Poetry Although love may occasionally show itself as a muse of Romantic poetry it has very little to do with Romanticism. Romanticism is considered to be an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.(Brooklyn College) The early Romantic period begins with the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth - co-written
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Name: * Teacher: * ENG2D1 27/05/2012 Benito Mussolini‚ Founding Father of Fascism Mussolini once stated that “It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.” As you would expect words like these from the mouth of Mussolini himself had been the inspirational backing to this dictator’s rain as sole leader
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After breaking into my caucus group‚ I felt like it was a little focused. Meaning‚ there was wasn’t really a choice as to which group each person should go to because of the way the question was framed. As a result‚ I felt like my group I was in was normal. It is normal for all the minorities to be in one group with the majority being whites. The conscious reminder of feeling “othered” is always present in the United States. I feel like it is something that you cannot run away from because you are
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