Benjamin Spock

Benjamin Franklin was famous for many important reasons. He was born on January 17, 1706. He accomplished a lot of important things in the 84 years he was alive for. He had many distinctive traits, many people acknowledged, and knew him by. These traits were, he was caring, he was extremely intelligent, and he was very persistent. Benjamin Franklin was very caring for many reasons. He fought for freedom on many occasions. Cared about his brother, and his brother’s opinions, even when his…

something worth writing” (Franklin Quotes). Benjamin Franklin famously said these words and he made sure he wasn’t forgotten. He is famous for being one of America’s Founding Fathers, tying a key to a kite, inventing the bifocals and for his literary works. His most famous one being: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This book has” became itself the most widely read autobiography ever written in America” (Franklin 1) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was divided into four parts and…

Benjamin Franklin held many occupations throughout his life such as, diplomat, scientist, writer, inventor, and printer. One of his proverbs states, “Great famine when wolves eat wolves” (Franklin 11). The American Revolution ended in the loss of many lives, due to a quest for freedom. Even before the Patriots fought back, there were many events that led to the war. On February 22, 1732, George Washington was born. He played a major role in the American Revolution as the commander in chief of…

In early United States History, Benjamin Franklin was known for being a different kind of person. He never followed the rules like everyone else and always “marched to the beat of his own drum”. This difference from everyone else is what made Franklin a prominent figure in early American society. Franklin also uses this difference to help get his beliefs about society across to citizens. He uses satire to call people out and try to fix issues in the colonies. In the Satirical piece of…

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts. Franklin had sixteen siblings; he was the fifteenth child, and the last son. Franklin attended Latin school until the age of ten years old. At age ten, Franklin was required to begin apprenticing his dad in the candle making business. At the age of twelve however, Franklin began working as an apprentice in his brother James’s print shop. “Ben abandoned his apprenticeship shortly afterward, escaping to New York, but settling…

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin When thinking about Benjamin Franklin the first thing that comes to mind is a man flying a kite with the key at the end of it, trying to discover electricity. He was best known as a founding father, inventor, scientist, politician, author, and a printer in his lifetime. He became so well rounded due to reading books from philosophers and reading about humanism. Understanding his accomplishments and how he lived his life are what were captured in his…

There are several similarities and differences of the purpose, tone, and tools between Charlotte Temple and Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. While Charlotte Temple is fiction and Benjamin Franklin is nonfiction, they both have a purpose to inform. Temple is informing us about the life and struggles of women during this time period and Franklin is informing us about his virtues. Since Temple is fiction, is also has the purpose of entertainment because it is a story. Franklin’s also has an…

The novel, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, tells the story of a folksy aristocrat and how he grew to be known as a stereotype of the American Dream instead of the complex, fascinating man he was. Author Gordon S. Wood states that “to recover the historic Franklin, we must shed these modern images and symbols…only then can we go on to understand how the symbolic Franklin was created.” Wood arranges the novel chronologically. He begins with Franklin’s birth like a biography, and…

The writings of Mary Rowlandson, and Benjamin Franklin, are two different pieces of literature that have both had a major effect on current American, and also had a major effect on Emerging America. Many revolutionary writes wanted America to live a self-improvement life so we could stay strong as a nation. They accomplished this through different types of literature. Mary Rowlandson wrote a piece about her dedication to God, and we should stay loyal to him thus living a better life. Franklin…

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17th, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. At 17 years old he ran away from Boston to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a fugitive. This was due to the fact that he spoke against the government saying, "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." Later in life Franklin was known for his anti-oppressive government views. His political views are what he is most know for as he was the…