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    Autobiography. detailed his journey to Philadelphia and his method of his Thirteen Virtues. Franklin had made a catalog of certain traits that he considered to be at "moral perfection", while at his stay in Philadelphia, to "live without committing any fault at any time". Among these thirteen virtues, I, Genghis Sam Ganbold, consider Tranquility, Resolution, and Chastity to be favorable towards me. According to Benjamin Franklin, Tranquility can be yielded by "be not disturbed at trifles, or at…

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    Spanish American Wars of Independence The civil war was intended to allow the colonies independence, but they couldn't do it alone. From 1808 to 1829, the Spanish citizens in America fought with their Spanish Oppressors. With the institution of social society new oppression's, the war had another motive. America eventually had to get involved, not because they supported the colonist but because the European power was in America's domain. This aided in sparking the Monroe Doctrine during its run…

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    Johann Joachim Becher Johann Joachim Becher was a very successful man with a very determined mindset. His goal was to completely redefine nature itself. With the support of various scientists and publicity for his scientific research, Becher was able to formulate his theory of combustion, known as the Phlogiston theory, and was able morph gold out of the mud of the Danube. He was a physician, scholar, adventurer, alchemist, and precursor of chemistry. Becher was an author of two books, the…

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    The British strategy at first was to contain revolutionary sentiment in Massachusetts. They tried it and it didn’t work so they were coming up with another strategy. Then someone came up with a new one. They said for them to capture New York, where many loyalists lived, so they could use it as a base. The British launched another plan and it was designed to split the New England off from the rest of the colonies. their battle of Saratoga was a crucial turning Point. There was another British…

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    John Dalton Essay

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    John Dalton was born September 6th, 1766 in Eaglesfield, England. Both of his parents, Joseph and Deborah were both Quakers who owned a house and a small little yard. Due to them being Quakers, they were seen as rebels by the established Church of England, which blocked his educational opportunities. John was a brainy child who looked at the world a little more closely than normal kids. At age 11, he attended a school in his town, but then became a teacher helper. Around 15 John started to help…

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    chemist, confirmed that the backbone of DNA contained repeating sugar and phosphate groups. Erwin Chargaff discovered that the nitrogenous bases adenine and thymine appeared in a 1:1 ratio, along with guanine and cytosine. Maurice Wilkins and Rosaline Franklin had proposed the corkscrew like shape of DNA when viewing X-ray images of DNA. Linus Pauling had even gone so far as to suggest his own 3-stranded structure of DNA (The Francis Crick Papers). Until Watson and Crick had published their…

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    American Ideals Essay In 1763, the British control over the colonies after defeated the French in the North American. The British raised taxes to the colonists also limited trade, and the British order the colonist that the soldiers could stay in their house. The colonies doesn’t want rules by the British King because their actions violated the rights. In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote a document about the Declaration of Independence. Americans have lived up to the ideals expressed in the…

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    Elias Ife Research Paper

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    Elias Howe – Sewing machine ⦁ American, pioneer, a man of many things, inventor of the new constructed sewing machine, Elias Howe Junior, was born on the 9th of July 1819 in Spencer, Massachusetts to Doctor, Elias Howe and Polly Howe (Bemis). He died on the 3rd of October 1867. He had eight siblings, three brothers, Amasa Bemis Howe, Sylvester Howe, Horace Smith Howe and five sisters, Eliza Howe, Corintha Howe, Juliett Howe, Fannie Howe and Mary Howe. ⦁ At age eleven, Howe was apprenticed by…

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    In Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, he explains his thirteen virtues that he has observed to achieve perfection. He believes that in order to achieve perfection in all aspects of life, you must follow a strict lifestyle that adapts to the thirteen virtues he created. During the three weeks, I followed the cleanliness, silence, and temperance virtues. After experiencing the virtues for three weeks, I realized how I needed to change how I was living. During the first week of the examination…

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    Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was an inventor from the 1700’s. He was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. As a child, Benjamin wanted to be a sailor, but because his brother became a sailor and was lost at sea, his dad would not allow him to sail. Franklin went to grammar school at the age of eight, but at the age of ten he left school and went to work with his father in his candle shop because he loved to read and was bad at math. After he was taken out of school, the…

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