Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Josiah Franklin was born on January 6, 1706 in Boston. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a businessman who married two wives. His first wife’s name was Anne Child. Anne Child gave birth to seven of Josiah’s children. Anne Child died while giving birth to Josiah’s seventh child in 1689. Josiah Franklin married his second wife, Abiah Folger, in 1689 and had ten more children with her. Benjamin Franklin was the youngest but two, in other words, he was the 8th child of Abiah’s
one of these courageous men was Benjamin Franklin. From a young boy, Benjamin reflected the ideals of a model colonial American: innovative, generous, independent, hardworking, and determined. Throughout his life, Franklin displays the idea of the American Dream as well as being a model American colonist. The American dream is the idea that every American should have an equal opportunity to reach success with hard work, determination, and initiative. Benjamin Franklin represents the ideal model American
Kantor September 25, 2015 History Cp 1 Benjamin Franklin: The Philosopher, Inventor, and Writer Benjamin Franklin is one of the most unique figures in American History. He was born January 17,1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. When Ben was 15 years old his brother started The New England Courant, the first official newspaper in Boston. Ben aspired to write for the paper, but his brother would not allow him to do it. He wrote letters at night to the paper, and signed them with the pseudonym Silence
Benjamin Franklin was the first to experiment with electricity using the lightning rod and also the inventor of the split-lens, better known today as bifocals, this I knew. However, I was unaware of all the other areas Franklin dabbled in such as meteorology, astronomy, heat transfer and refrigeration by evaporation. Franklin invented many things over the course of his life, these items include a musical instrument known as the glass armonica, split-lens glasses (bifocals), urinary catheters, and
To Be Franklin January 17th is a day that will live in infamy, brilliants such as Girolamo Fracastoro, Thomas Fairfax, and Anne Bronte made their debut to the world on this day. Our subject, also, came to the world on this day also, Benjamin Franklin was allegedly born on January 17th, 1706. To give a brief outline of his early life, Benjamin Franklin had a boisterous childhood: shared with 11 children, a soap/candle making father and a home-keeping mother. Ben spent short stints in school before
In honor of Benjamin Franklin, his portrait is printed on the obverse of the one hundred-dollar bill, the largest denomination in American currency. He is the one of the most indispensable persons since the foundation of the United States. He had a variety of significant impacts as a publisher and writer, statesman and diplomat, and scientist and inventor in American history. At the beginning of his last will and testament, Benjamin Franklin identified himself as “of Philadelphia, printer, late Minister
The Chronicles of Benjamin Rush On January 4, 1746, in Byberry, Pennsylvania, John Harvey Rush and Susanna Hall gave birth to their fourth child, Benjamin Rush. Benjamin was one of seven children in the Rush family. The family lived on a plantation in Philadelphia County, fourteen miles outside of Philadelphia. Benjamin Rush’s father was a successful farmer and a gun repairman during his lifetime. In 1752, when Benjamin was just only six years old, his father passed away. The tragedy
Benjamin Franklin’s “Speech of Miss Polly Baker” is a prime example of how women were treated appose to men when it came to committing the same crimes. It displays an unjustifiable and prejudice court system, against women. In Benjamin Franklin’s story, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker”, he takes on a female alias to show how women are treated back in those times and
written, is extremely important that sense of belonging by the United States of North America, but it is also important the sense of Familism, in fact the vast majority Hispanic, supports family values like other cultures. That is why, this academic paper, allows us to understand more deeply reading of Rodriguez, why he is identified as an American and why he tries to defend his "Country" even the antagonistic criteria of his father, here we can see how the Familism is defeated by the acculturation
following; “Centralization is measured as both the hierarchy of authority and the degree of participation in decision making, whereas strategy is measured as the extent to which service providers are prospectors, defenders, and reactors.”. Moreover, the research claims that centralization has no impact on performance, but it has significant impact on the strategic organization orientation; in other words, the type of service or business the organization undertakes can affect how effective centralization