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"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

The Hardy Boys: The Secret of Skull Mountain

little hints to the truth of the mystery, as is the case with the Hardy Boys mysteries as well as most mystery stories. Each chapt...

Franklin and Douglass

men and the student or this writer/researcher. In relationship to the importance of these two individuals, in the history of the...

Individualism and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) attempted to foster employment while promoting environmental conservation7. Young men were r...

Capitalism and How It was Saved by FDR

as many of his critics argued (Schlesinger, 1998). Before Roosevelt took office, the country had suffered a depression about eve...

Great Depression and the WPA, FHA and AAA New Deal Agencies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

to compare the situation in agriculture and in industry today with what it was fifteen months ago. At the same time we have recog...

Book Review of Franklin Harold's The Way of the Cell:

organism in nature exists. While it is simple to say that the biological "riddle" of life, the understanding of cellular biology,...

Biography of Benjamin Franklin

at night so no one knew who was writing the pieces. They were a smash hit, and everyone wanted to know who was the real Silence Do...

Conservative Overtones of the New Deal Social Policies

brinks of despair and back onto its feet. Conditions in the U.S. were so bad it was estimated that over 100,000 American citizens...

New Deal of FDR and its Importance

done created a stellar U.S. economy and a great deal of productivity. Of course, many of the measures were meant as temporary fixe...

Politics and the Influence of Radio During the Years 1920 to 1940

the airwaves these days. But for the times (and in examining the history), the radio rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s was quite str...

'New Right' and FDR's New Deal

deleterious rather than positive. It is important to remember, however, that the New Deal emerged in one of the most taxing times...

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). ...

Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Its Opposition

the "loyal opposition" that he believed is needed in order for the two-party system to work best. He opposed FDR seemingly at eve...

Wartime US Presidents

authority in this area. While they are technically supposed to get Congressional approval to declare war, the facts show that over...

20th Century United States and Social Welfare

those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...

Progressivism and Liberalism

fact that the need exists for an even more determinant of limitations when it comes to the intersection of society and the individ...

Slave Trade and Owners' Attitudes are Analyzed in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

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...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Many Roles

jurist, legislator and chief executive. Commander in Chief Two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR addressed the nat...

Media and the Disability of Franklin D. Roosevelt

and how he handled this illness, its important to remember the very different era in which he lived. Today people are admired for...

Debate on FDR's New Deal of the 1930s

Of course, the taxes which go to Social Security are not exactly set aside for the individual per se, but people are provided with...

New Deal Policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

addition to the stock market crash. The situation which developed after the end of World War I was one of the primary factors....

Comparative Analysis of Notable Americans of the Past

contributions that people are better able to understand politics and better able to base future decision. Fortunately, there is a...

American Historical Contributions of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin

revolutionary Americans divided up into planter democrats and capitalist elitists. According to another school, the basic division...

Religious Thought v. the Enlightenment

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

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...

Life and Identity of Benjamin Franklin

He so appreciated having the strength of faith present in his life that, like most others, Franklin freely expressed his gratitude...