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    If ever a story embodied what has come to be known as the American Dream, it is the life story of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin could be considered a passionate and energetic man who motivated himself by self-determination and a strong work ethic to achieve self-improvement. Beyond his sometimes-lofty personal aspirations to attain self-improvement, Franklin’s deep conviction inspired him to help others live well. He demonstrated this conviction in his reasons for writing, his willingness to portray

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    Benjamin Franklin is known for his numerous contributions to society, science, and politics. His works have influenced both America and the entire world so greatly that it’s difficult to find something that wasn’t influenced at least in part by him. He played a massive role in the revolution and the development of the country, pushing for unity amongst the colonies, helping to establish a foundation for the country to build itself on, and holding several political offices. He also was an exemplary

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    ascertain Benjamin Franklin’s strongest points for he was a man of many talents and performed countless services for his country. Franklin always sought ways to utilize his intellectual gifts to benefit those around him. Without his contributions to American society, America would not hold the same value and importance it does today. A greater understanding of what Franklin accomplished can be grasped by observing his early life, adulthood, and important positions in politics. Benjamin Franklin was born

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    When most people think of Benjamin Franklin, they tend to think of “that guy who discovered electricity”, or “one of the many founding fathers”. While both of those statements are correct, Franklin’s skills and contributions to the country were much, much more than that. As an author, inventor, civic activist, diplomat, printer, and more, Franklin definitely fits the role of a founding father. With such a wide variety of skills, Franklin’s contributions in his many fields were needed for developing

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    Franklin was the founder of a number of institutions integral, today, to an American way of life—the first lending library (the Philadelphia Library in 1731), the first scholarly voluntary association (the Junto or "Leather Apron" Club), the first fire department (the Union Fire Company of Philadelphia in 1736), and the postal system. He served as the first Postmaster mGeneral in 1753. He wrote and printed the Poor Richard's Almanack, an immensely popular book of homespun wisdom. Franklin Invented

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    The Autobiography In the autobiographical essay aptly entitled “The Autobiography” (1791) Benjamin Franklin, a writer, renowned inventor, and American founding father confides that he had made attempts in his youth at emulating Perfection through the apprehension and application of 13 traits: Temperance,Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Tranquility, Chastity, and Humility. Enunciating his ideas by checking the aforementioned traits off the

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    Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography starts off with him addressing it “Dear Son” and beginning with this history of his family. He traces it back to three hundred years. His father and his wife settled in Boston along with Franklin and his siblings. Although Franklin is identified as intelligent it was also known that he struggles in school(he is told he must take up a trade). He strongly disliked his father’s trade and so he tried out a few others before being apprenticed to his brother James, a printer

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    One of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, had an idea to share principles that anyone can use in everyday life to make themselves a better and wiser person. Through the struggles that comes with everyday life, these key principles have so much meaning. Even though the world is moving so fast around us, these principles stated by Franklin are great ones for anyone in today’s society to follow. Ben Franklin was the oldest man in the Philadelphia convention as well as the oldest man to have

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    Franklin’s Secrets to Powerful Marketing Meta description: As an early publisher, Ben Franklin developed marketing techniques that we can learn from today, such as addressing pain points and being entertaining. Today we think of marketing as being driven by cutting-edge technology. However, many of the tactics we use in digital marketing go back to the early days of printing and publishing. Benjamin Franklin was a newspaper and pamphlet publisher in the American colonies who is referred to as

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    goal seems to far to reach, so we just give up, but this was not the case for Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston Massachusetts, and moved to philadelphia when he was seventeen years old. When he was in philadelphia, he decided he wanted to change himself for the better, so he wrote down some virtues. There was 13 virtues that Franklin though were crucial to becoming better. In Benjamin Franklin’s “Autobiography”, he had many ways of improving himself, but the virtues

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