John Franklin

Money Man: Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin had a big impact on the American Literature. His scientific pursuits included investigations into electricity, mathematics and mapmaking. He acquired the image of the self-made moralist obsessed with the getting and saving of money. Benjamin Franklin is the establishing father who winks at us, the person who appears to be made of substance instead of marble. In a general the story that takes after Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to…

The best known as one of the Founding Fathers of Declaration of Independence and also the Constitution of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston. His father married twice, with his first wife he had seven children and with his second wife he had ten more. Benjamin was his 15th child and he was the youngest son. His father was soap and candle maker. Benjamin learned to read when he was at a young age. Attending to Boston Latin School was a success to him,…

Born in 1942 as the daughter of C. L. Franklin and Barbara Singers, Aretha Franklin had a destiny of fame set out for her with her father being a renowned Baptist preacher and her mother a successful gospel singer. She grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, until she was six years old when her parents split, causing her and her four siblings to follow their father’s preaching assignments to Detroit, Michigan. Her father became a national preacher at New Bethel Baptist Church, while her mother passed…

Franklin began his work in politics because he was an activist for independence. He had a strong sense of civic duty. How he began his work is solely just by his own desire to help the public (Independence Hall Association, 1999). He saw problems with the…

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…

American Revolution. The entire shift from a society influenced greatly by God and puritan values to a society influenced by Enlightenment concepts helped to influence prominent writers. These writers influenced by Enlightenment ideas included Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine who contributed their own voices concerning Enlightenment philosophy and thinking in their respective writings of “The Way to Wealth” and “The Crisis,…

It made many people mad. For Example, people like George Washington, Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin. George Washington was a general in the Revolutionary War. He fought for America’s freedom. Paul Revere was a son of liberty and was one of the people that dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. Also, Revere is best known as lighting the bell on fire to tell us that the British are coming. John Hancock was also a son of liberty. He too dumped tea into the harbor, but what he most…

soldiers in Lexington; known as the shot that was heard around the world, marking the first shot fired in the Revolutionary War (5). When Congress did meet a second time they had a few additional people including Benjamin Franklin and Tomas Jefferson. Along with President of Congress John Hancock, they voted to form an army with Washington as the commander (5). The first major battle occurred between the two forces was the Battle of Bunker Hill. Even with a British victory, they suffered heavy…

The Great Seal of the United States of America is a symbol of what our nation was founded on. There is great meaning and symbolism in the design that I have always wanted to learn more about it. On July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams were charged to form a committee to design the Great Seal for the newly established United States of America. These were after all three founding fathers, surely they would be able to come up with a seal that would capture the essence…

Parish, county Londonderry, Ireland. His father, John Thomson was well-known and most respected in Ulcer where they lived at Ireland.…