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    Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706, as one of seventeen children. Of the titles he holds, Founding Father, inventor, and scientist are just a few. He is perhaps best known for having his face on the 100 dollar bill and “discovering” electricity. Franklin’s father was a soap and candle maker. When Franklin was only 10 years old, he was pulled out of school to assist in the family business. He also worked as an apprentice at his uncle’s printing shop as a young boy before quitting and…

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    parents according to what your siblings had already chosen for themselves? Worse yet how would you cope with the fact that given this conditions, you are the youngest son out seventeen kids? In an autobiographical letter written to his son William, Benjamin Franklin describes in detail the hardships he faced while growing up in an extensive family, and how he became an intellectual man out of passion for reading and writing, and later on one of the Founding Fathers of the Nation. With his…

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    Christ and desired for God to work through him for God’s glory. I have come to admire this man very much. His name was Benjamin Rush. In Benjamin’s early years he suffered the loss of his father. His mother moved her young family to Philadelphia where she opened a grocery store to provide for her children. Determined that her sons would have a good education, nine year old Benjamin was placed under the tutelage of his uncle, Rev. Dr. Finley. Dr. Finely was the principle of an academy in…

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    Experiences are like a priceless possession that teaches an individual the value and esoteric essence of his own existence. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is an account of Franklin’s life experiences that taught him a deal of self-righteousness, virtue, self-actualization, knowledge and wisdom. Franklin recalls many past, powerful instances of his life that have influenced the ethical and intellectual development. The memoir also represents various events that built his keen interest in…

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    Being an American means the beginning as a ‘have-not’ and progressing to being a ‘have,’ or, to put in the hip-hop artist’s Drake’s words: “Started from the bottom, now we here.” Furthermore, being a ‘have’ means the glorification of pleasure, and the high life. This hedonistic worldview kept stable for the ‘haves’ often at the expense of the ‘have-nots.’ This duality of the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ has expressed itself through multiple American conflicts and struggles, and is depicted in a…

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    Benjamin Franklin was 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…

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    The 18th century was a crucial yet important time in our history and for religion. For the longest time, all the different colonies and tribes of Native Americans were in conflict with each other. But with the arrival of Edwards and Whitefield, all of these once thought of traditions were no longer to be used and practiced anymore. Edwards and Whitefield were both religious preachers but taught different religions. Which one of these religions the tribes and colonies chose was up to the leaders.…

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    The American Revolution is notoriously known as the birth of our great countries’ independence from England. In this time thirteen colonies rose up to stop the unfair treatment that they had been receiving from British monarchy and aristocracy. The thirteen colonies which were primarily under English control had declared themselves independent and renamed themselves the United States of America. This rebellion is probably the most important thing is U.S. history and yet most people still…

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    Events Leading to Independence: In the 1760s, the colonies were prosperous, and there was no economic crisis. Also, they were not unified. And Irish was the only group clamoring for freedom. Seeing this, not many people were able to predict what revolution America will be witnessing in the 1770s. Much happened in the decade from 1763 to 1776. The colonists were ignored in their attempts to address grievances, watched over like children, and (felt) unfairly taxed. Religious ideas rose to the…

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    them shared the same religion. Some were Protestant and some were Catholics and deists, but they managed to get past those issues for the good of our country. They also shared different opinions on Enlightenment. Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Rush “saw it as a welcome chance for the radical act of uprooting oppressive ways of all kinds” (36). They saw Enlightenment as a bad thing, whereas John Adams and Alexander Hamilton thought it “an opportunity for a…

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