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Benjamin Franklin

In eight pages The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is used to gain some insights into this true Renaissance man and great Ameri...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

American Identity Concept and Benjamin Franklin

of his definition of self as it relates to Americans is scattered and often vague. Bearing this in mind we turn to the philosophic...

Visitor Studies and How They Developed

seek to attract the public. Visitor studies can be seen as historically categorised and studied in terms of the educational per...

Self Made Man Ideology

It was his lecture "Acres of Diamonds" that brought him to riches, though (Center for History and New Media, 2002). He was on a na...

New Republic of the Eighteenth Century, Women, and Marriage

this child is not identified in the book (Fairbanks, 2002). It seems as if in this book he doesnt necessarily chastise himself fo...

Religious Thought v. the Enlightenment

challenge to, the assertions of Jonathan Edwards. Ben Franklins autobiography is also characteristic of Enlightenment thought whi...

Moral Virtues of Benjamin Franklin

chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

Eighteenth Century Writers' Spiritual and Worldly Interests

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

American Dream As Embodied in Benjamin Franklin

it pertains to ones identity. Franklin essentially constructs his approach to self, or identity, never really calling it self or...

Ben Franklin, America's Colonial Printer

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

Alcohol According to Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...

Mass Production and Art

Age of Mechanical Reproduction...which concentrated upon defining the aura of traditional art before the 20th century, and analyze...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud on Redemption

the past into the present. IV Freud, mocking Hermann Cohens belief in religion as the...

Authors Embracing Marxis

respects ethics. Of course, that is not always apparent on the surface, but like much of his writings, Marx expresses a profound i...

Self Help Texts and Benjamin Franklin's Values

life. Ben Franklin was similar in his approach: no focus on esoteric concepts but rather dedication to common sense approaches t...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

is writing his memoir is conversational, which indicates that he tailored his account to appeal to a broad audience. The tone is ...

Mass Production According to John Berger and Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin was "was positive about new technologies, emphasizing their liberating, democratizing influences. This put him at ...

Definition of Globalization and its Dangers

expense of myriad unsophisticated societies. As such, this dichotomy of progression has rendered globalization a much-contested c...

Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

The First American by H.W. Brands Reviewed

all fire breathing radicals like Samuel Adams (Review of Brands, "The First American, 2004). And...

American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

the convention that drew up the Constitution (Wright 18). It was also noted, however, that "Indeed it is said that he would have b...

Billy Budd and Tommy Contemporary Operas

When he recover his senses, yet it still marked by his Uncle Ernie as a phenomena, the public revolts, but it is nevertheless true...

U.S. Constitution and Benjamin Franklin

years before, a clause in a bill brought into Parliament by the ministry had proposd to make the kings instructions laws in the co...

Benjamin Rader/American Sports

of sport and leisure, it seems that Benjamin Rader (2003) does a good job in outlining the relationship between the advent of citi...

Iraq War and Views of Past Leaders

Jeffersons time by the name of Benjamin Benneker will be discussed as well. Of course, he was a brilliant man, but he was not a po...

Aspects of Formulating the US Government

majority" (Publius). That is, the largest faction will be able to impose its will on others, whether they are in agreement or not...