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    Founding Fathers, like Ben Franklin, were just beginning to lay down the foundations of what would become one of the most powerful nations in the world. In 1776, the United States gained their freedom from Great Britain, meanwhile on the other side of the world, people were being taken from their homes and forced into slavery. These two events helped mold the lives of Ben Franklin and Olaudah Equiano. Now you’re probably wondering how these two men are similar seeing how Ben Franklin is…

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    Ben Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. Ben had 16 brothers and sisters. Ben wanted to write for the paper with his brother, he was very successful with his job. Ben decided to turn to science and become an inventor. He invented the heat efficient stove. It was used to heat up houses. The stove helped improve society. Ben franklin also was the first person to invent the swim fins. Ben loved to swim and he wanted to find a way to make it easier to swim. First he invented wooden…

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    Maimonides whose full name is Moses Ben Maimon, also known as Rambam, was a Jewish philosopher, physician, and political advisor. He was born in Muslim Spain, lived there until the expansion of extreme Muslim groups then left to Cairo, Egypt. In his book Guide of perplexed Maimonides talks about theodicy, the issue of evil in the presence of God. He also gives explanations on the five opinions on providence and gives his personal views on these matters. To get a general idea on whom God is,…

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    the book Ben Behind His Voices is Benjamin; Ben suffers from Schizophrenia. He is the son of the author Randye Kaye. Early life for Ben was as normal a life a child could have with a single mother. Ben was warm and happy, like any other child. Ben was very well liked and he was often called often to babysit; Ben did very well in school and loved his baby sister with all his heart. Ben was often thought to have ADD or ADHD as a child, but it was not believed necessary to medicate Ben. Later…

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    platforms. Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook took the world by storm with his multi-billion-dollar social network of Facebook, and its integral system of “likes” coupled with the ability to post, comment, and share photos and video. Author Ben Mezrich, in his novel The Accidental Billionaires, tells the cunning story of how Zuckerberg took Facebook from a simple college dorm room project at Harvard to a worldwide phenomenon. Mezrich details Facebook’s earliest beginnings…

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    Those people are trapped. One of those people was Ben and his dog Zach. Naturally, Ben was up and ready at three o'clock in the morning just like every day since... well, that’s not important. Ben was ready to be out of his bunker and find whatever he could salvage of the vast expense of broken objects and pieces of fallen buildings. He…

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    Did you start out with a rough life when you grew up? Well Ben Mikaelsen did grow up with a very tough life. Ben Mikaelsen did not know how to write when he was in the 4th grade. But now he is a great author with several books published, and he is one of the most popular writers. Ben Mikaelsen was born on December 8th in La Paz, Bolivia. Ben grew up in South America almost his whole life. Here a quote from Ben Mikaelsen “I never questioned being born in Bolivia, South America, growing up with…

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    Ben E. Keith food serves the business of distribution, it takes more than 20,000 products to customers. These products consist of national brands as well as its own exclusive brands, some of the products are; dairy, fresh and frozen meats, frozen foods, produce, poultry, seafood, disposables, restaurant equipment and supplies. It has an independent beverage division that distributes Anheuser Busch Inberv beer. It also distributes many more brands and have fourteen operational distribution…

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    The stories “Old Ben” and “Fox Hunt” may be different, but, the artists use the same methods to get a reader hooked on their stories. The story “Old Ben” is a narrative nonfiction written by Jesse Stuart about a boy who goes walking in the woods one day, there the boy finds a friendly black snake, the boy then names the snake Old Ben and takes him home where he keeps him in the corncrib, one morning his family’s dog starts going towards the corncrib, then the boy has to confess to keeping the…

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    Ben Zimmer’s article entitled “Chunking” from the September 2010 issue of the New York Times, raises the question: should collocation education be used to teach English? The article focuses on the importance of chunking and how useful it is in teaching and developing others in the language of English. Zimmer uses his son as a prime example of how kids of his age unknowingly pick up myriads of chunks, “or idioms,” throughout the span of their childhood; he explains, “As Blake learned these…

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