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to a different terrain the newcomers had faced, the authors displayed differences in writing styles, experiences and views. To analyze, compare, contrast, and analyze once more all which is written, is there a knowledge gained as to who they were. Benjamin Franklin is a noteworthy figure in many sects in the advancing of the American…

Recognized as the father of Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin’s views on Enlightenment serve to put in perspective the importance of going forward and not being a static nation. Within the greater ideals of Enlightenment, this need to “get on” comes through, for Franklin, with the perfectibility of man. That is to say that he tried to attain moral perfection. For instance, his thirteen virtues are proof of his desire to better himself and his fellowmen. Regardless of the importance he gives to…

The thirteen colonies, which included: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia, formed Colonial America. The colonies were under the control of Great Britain but they started to rebel around 1754, causing their relationship to strain. From 1754 to 1783 the colonies started to unite, which was caused by The French and Indian War, The Road to the Revolution, and the The…

In 1761, Wheatley was kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved. She was purchased by John Wheatley as a servant for his wife. Although Phillis was brought as a slave, the Wheatleys took a great interest in Phillis’s education. Phillis learned to read and write English, and she became familiar…

Define and give the significance of the following Key Terms: The Dominion of New England: The Dominion of New England was a coalition of New England colonies in 1686 created by King James II. It originally consisted of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and had its capital in Boston. Later, in 1688, James II added the Jerseys and New York. Individually operated state legislative branches were dissipated, and Sir Edmund Andros took over as the governor of the…

1776, the dawn of the American Revolution saw merchant sailors being authorized to walk a fine line between Privateer and Pirate. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), famous American founding father used British politics and laws in an effort to break America from British rule. In 1779, Franklin, an elderly man of seventy-three traveled across the Atlantic from America to France to seek aid and assistance from France in an effort to break from the British empirical rule over America. Franklin’s…

he was born. “Given the state of English politics and the character of English Politicians, war was now inevitable” (Franklin 241). But Franklin continued to urge peace; both to his British friends and to the patriots back home” (Franklin 241). In Benjamin Franklin’s pamphlet The Plain Truth, Franklin outlines the need to unify the colonies to build a common colonial defense (Franklin 104). This was a difficult task to convince among some the colonists, due to the fact the Quakers from…

One is that of Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers and the other is that of a recorded journal of Conrad Weiser the German interpreter for the Iroquois and great friend of Canasatego. The written source of Benjamin Franklin is taken directly from the minutes of each meeting involved with the Lancaster Treaty. The source details each component of the meeting…

this is what I hope the University of Pennsylvania can serve as for me, a transcending mechanism to aid my efforts towards my dreams. Relating to Penn with a general anecdote is that I have a Quaker background in my family tree, though I am aware Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield are the founders, I am related to William Penn by marriage. Another anecdote of my family history is my relation to Paul revere as he is my grandfather of eight generations past, my mother actually has a piece of…

introducing narratives created by normal people to the audience. Even though he emphasizes the importance of paying attention to long-term big pictures of US-China relationship in order to oppose the Eurocentric statements, for example, “the rise of the West is inevitable” and “the fall of China is due to its less open-minded culture”, Professor Chang points out that the interaction between people from two countries is also an important narrative form. In class one classmate asked the question…