Benjamin Franklin Essay

Franklin, based on the title alone, supposedly wrote “The Way to Wealth” to tell Americans what steps they must take to become wealthy. Yet the question remains whether or not that was truly what Franklin was trying to achieve. Was Franklin being serious, that following the steps outlined in “The Way to Wealth” would lead to wealth? Was he joking, being sarcastic, or perhaps trying to achieve something else entirely? While Franklin did not seriously believe that his advice would lead to wealth,…

In the 18th century, growing tension between England and the American colonies led to a desperate need for a solution. America was ready to fight for reconciliation, or in other words, taxation with representation. Paine released his work Common Sense to convince America to change their cause from reconciliation to independence. In this pamphlet, Paine utilizes, word choice, capitalization, and a problem-solution structure to contribute to his overall purpose of convincing America to go to war…

The Enlightenment was a period of philosophical advancement in Western Europe. The four main enlightenment thinkers were Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, and Montesquieu. Voltaire emphasized the freedom of speech by writing attacks towards the Catholic Church even though he knew he would get punished for his writings. Rousseau was a French philosophe who emphasized the idea that all people are equal. Locke was an English writer during the Age of Enlightenment. His mostly focused on the issue of…

The Continental Congress was created to govern the colonies while trying to keep it secret. There was two Congresses before and during the Revolutionary War. Both times they met they naturally talked about the problems at hand and what to do to oppose them. For example taxes,British government,and other major events like war . If you know little about the continental army,First Continental Congress, and the second Continental Congress then keep reading. You may learn something new. The First…

Almost every American knows something about the Boston Tea Party, but some people have a misunderstanding of the events occurring at that time in our country’s history and what lead the colonists to act the way they did toward the British government. The Tea Act of 1773 was supposed to benefit the colonists by lowering tax rates on tea. Instead of being content with this arrangement, the colonists were enraged. They felt it was unfair of England to make them pay taxes at all. The Tea Act did…

First it looked like that the American and French Revolutions had a lot in common but at the same time many difference. After all both American and French Revolution took place about the same time. Both took the challenge of republican government and the principles of liberty. The French Revolution and American Revolution were the reason why civilians started to rebel against their government. The French and Americans started to rebel against their government in a violent manner. During the…

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, is a work that shows how many people felt during the late 1700’s. In this work, Paine advocates independence from Great Britain to the Thirteen Colonies. It was published anonymously during the beginning of the American Revolution, and instantly became a sensation among the colonists. Similarly, Anne Bradstreet’s poem, Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666, portrays major Puritan beliefs of the 1600’s. Anne Bradstreet’s poem…

Martin Luther King Jr. was such an influential man that this article was solely dedicated to him and his vision. This article was written to honor the tenth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s. death. Ceaser Chavez wrote this article to specifically pinpoint Martin Luther Jr’s. vision of nonviolent resistance., how nonviolence is the better choice than violence. He goes on by saying that violence only brings death, chaos, more anger, and it never brings a contemporary solution to the problem…

The Scarlet Letter - Embroidering Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism Thread for an Early American World Riding the wave of heightened nationalism after the second independence war against Great Britain in 1812, Americans began to write their own school textbooks, celebrate the birth of American literature using American scenes and themes, and even establish their own American intellectual, philosophical, and social movements. One of these movements is the American transcendentalism…

In 1215, The Magna Carta was brought up in a field in England known as Runnymede. The Magna Carta was a charter that was targeted against the deranged king of England at the time, King John. The Archbishop of Canterbury wrote up the charter to make peace between King John and barons who despised him. Dan Jones explains the history of King John and the Magna Carta in an article he had wrote for the Smithsonian. In his article, “The Mad King and Magna Carta,” the author Dan Jones begins with a…