American inventors

Although the African American fight to end discrimination in the progressive era it did not lead to immediate changes in politics, several changes did take place that impacted African Americans. Organizations such as the Niagara Movement and the NAACP both resulted in building stronger African-American communities by providing healthcare, housing, and educational services. Also, the work of Washington, Du Bois, Wells, Terrell and many others ultimately led to the protests of the Civil Rights…

Why you need financial independence to achieve great feats in life Benjamin Franklin was an author, printer, inventor, scientist, civic activist, postmaster, statesman, and diplomat. He founded University of Pennsylvania, American Philosophical Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, and United States Postal Inspection Service. He invented lighting rod and bifocals. He started volunteer fire-company and volunteer militia to defend Philadelphia. He was a Postmaster General and a diplomat to…

born in 1706 (Boston) and he was raised in a Presbyterian society. Franklin lived in the American society in the eighteenth century called “The Age of Enlightenment.”. Benjamin Franklin grew up in Boston working in his brother’s print shop. “Having made his fortune, Franklin increasingly turned his attention to his scientific studies and to political activities, including his considerable role in the American Revolution.” Every Sunday he studied religion and believed God had created the…

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn This book is about a poor girl in Brooklyn, New York growing up to a full grown adult by encountering a lot of difficulties. First, her parents were second generation Americans and they were living under a poverty line. Because of this, she had to work before entering elementary school. Moreover, as her family was originated from Eastern Europe, she faced a fierce discrimination when she entered elementary school at the age of seven. What does the worst, her beloved…

Benjamin Franklin If I were able to sit down, and have dinner with any person in American history, it would be one of the most brilliant men in our nation’s history, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin is responsible for developing many of the things that we take for granted today such as bifocals, an odometer, and domestic electricity. Furthermore, Franklin was instrumental in establishing our current political system, and is known as one of our country’s founding fathers, thanks to his contributions…

in the 30s still has a reflection on us today. How we have not been educated to our capabilities because in my opinion we are not seen as equals. From our class lecture I was to inform everyone on two inventors, and inventions, achievement, and about their story. It amazed me the amount of inventors that we have that has had a great impact on our lives even today, and we are not educated about them. Every year for Black History Month, I feel as if the same people are recognize. As though we are…

political theorist, scientist, diplomat, statesman, postmaster, and inventor. Remarkably, this was the first document to achieve widespread prominence and still after more than two hundred years it stands out as one of the most enduring well-known example of the genre ever composed. Accordingly, the document gives an account of Franklin’s influential career and maps out a system for independent accomplishment with regards to the rising American…

France to enlist aid for the American Revolution. He helped us tremendously and made it so much better for the war. He was the only American to sign all four documents that established the new nation. He signed both the Alliance with France and England. Franklin was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He was one of the Framers who decided on what would be in the Constitution. Franklin also helps draft the Declaration of Independence.…

Benjamin Franklin is one of the most significant people in American history. He is not only a founding father; he is also an author, inventor, scientist, and a diplomat. All of these things helped him provide great contributions to the United States history. These contributions include his many different inventions including the glass armonica, bifocals, and of course his most famous invention the lightning rod, which will be discussed more further in. Another one of Franklin’s contributions…

enough to go to school and begin to interact with other culturally diverse people you pick and learn new things about others, and you began to stereotype for yourself. Two groups of people that are constantly facing stereotypes are African Americans and Asian Americans. Despite how successful the individuals that make up these two groups up become they will always be haunted by the stereotypes that come…