...The Influence of Benjamin Franklin in History and Science. Benjamin Franklin once said,” I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” In other words, Benjamin Franklin always made mistakes due to all his experiments, but he liked learning from them. In fact, he is known for his valuable inventions and incredible knowledge. Benjamin Franklin was a very influential person because of he was one of the founding fathers of the U.S. and his valuable inventions. To begin with, Benjamin Franklin was born on January 27, 1706 in Boston and was the eighth child out of the ten in the family (Ketcham 8-12). He later lived in England for 15 years as a spokesman and his father was a mechanic (Ketcham 8-12). He mentioned that his mother was very careful and showed high worthy standards (Ketcham 8-12). In fact, when he used to live at Boston, he used to help his father in his business in a shop, but his father realized he did an awful job (Dooling 1-45). For this reason, he was dismissed (Dooling 1-45). Benjamin...
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...of time, being a leader has never changed. Weather you consider someone good or bad, as long as you look up to them they are technically a leader. Altho, there are five very important characteristics that will separate a good leader from a bad one, starting with, they must have a purpose. They also need to have some sort of experience and they need to stay positive. A good leader must also be engaged and sometimes convincing. The first reason why I think that all good leaders must have a purpose is because without a purpose you won’t have a goal and there is no possible way to be a leader without a goal. The second reason why a leader must have a purpose is because if they don’t then there isn’t a reason for them to be around. One man that I think is an amazing example of leading with a purpose is Martin Luther King Junior. He was a man that had a goal to create peace and equality for everyone. He wasn’t trying to get attention or become famous, he just wanted to see people get along....
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...In 1858 emily started making formal copies of her poem. Emily’s poems soon appeared in Drum Beat to raise money for the Union Soldiers medical expenses. Her poems also appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Union. Emily’s poems made a lot of people feel brave in their own ways. She influenced many people to live their happy life. But, Emily had died of Bright’s Disease- kidney ailment which is known as nephritis. When emily died her sister Lavinia Dickinson discovered her amazing poetry on her tables, After emily died the fourth year her poems finally were published all at once. Her poems became very popular and many people enjoyed/ loved...
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...were members of the local governments. They attended meetings of the legislatures in the capitals of their colonies usually two times a year. Slave owners had the time and the education to greatly influence political life in the southern colonies, because the hard work on their farms was done by slaves. Today, most people in the world condemn slavery. That was not true in the early years of the American nation. Many Americans thought slavery was evil, but necessary. Yet owning slaves was common among the richer people in the early 1700s. Many of the leaders in the colonies who fought for American independence owned slaves. This was true in the northern colonies as well as the southern ones. One example is the famous American diplomat, inventor and businessman Benjamin Franklin. He owned slaves for thirty years and sold them at his general store. But his ideas about slavery changed during his long life. Benjamin Franklin started the first schools to teach blacks and later argued for their freedom. Slavery did not become a force in the northern colonies mainly because of economic reasons. Cold weather and poor soil could not support such a farm economy as was found in the South. As a result, the North came to depend on manufacturing and...
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...The United States of America has many founding fathers. Some of which are George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton is the best founding father, he was the most influential. Although, he does have his flaws, just like every other founding father. He founded the “Federalist Papers.” These are a collection of articles and essays written by Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. They “sealed the deal” on the new constitution. Hamilton also architected America’s economic system in just five years from 1789-1793. Another major contribution that Alexander Hamilton has done was that he was Lieutenant Colonel and a great military leader. Alexander Hamilton founded the “Federalist Papers” in 1787. They are a series of essays and articles written to promote ratification of the constitution. Hamilton wrote Federalist Paper number six, “Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States.” He argued that a disunited union would lead to domestic violence. The anti-federalists argued that the states would get along with one another even though they are disunited. Hamilton strongly disliked democracy's and republic’s. He also wrote number eleven, “The Utility of the Union in respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy.” He argued that a united union would...
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...Marie-Adrienne-Francoise, daughter of a duke and even had a child as well as one on the way. However, on April 1777, Lafayette left his pregnant wife, his daughter against the wishes of his family and the French Government. Like most of the French who traveled to America, he was looking for glory, but was dismissed. However unlike most of the French, he was quite humble, viewed America as an amazing place filled with opportunity, and George Washington quickly took a liking to him. As Vowell describes him, he was quite enamored with the rebels and he only wished to join them. Even after his first battle at Brandywine and the shot in his leg that followed, he still carries on, leading as best as he can. On and off the battlefield, Vowell shows the importance of Lafayette to the victory of the American Revolution. On the battlefield, he was a great leader, commanding his own division despite his origin, and even realizing the various issues that occurred within the army itself that many were too afraid or ignorant to point out. Off the battlefield, he helped many diplomats such as Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin ensure that France would be a major backing in the war. Although first very tentative, the Continental Congress finally realized the importance of the French. America not only finally received some of the supplies that it was in desperate need of, it also received much support in terms of morale and troops from the revenge seeking France. In fact, although not mentioned frequently...
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...New Belgium Brewing Company: Ethical and Environmental Responsibly Abstract Although it has since been disproved that Benjamin Franklin once said, “Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy,” he is nonetheless given credit for this profound and true statement. New Belgium Brewing has been making people happy since 1991. Along the way they have managed to continuously and profoundly function in the world of profit in a sustainable way making them an outstanding corporate citizen. The core company values that were put in place since the inception of the company stand as a testimony in conjunction with the actions of the company as an exemplary model of sustainability and ethics. New Belgium Brewing New Belgium Brewing (NBB) was born as a commercially sold product in 1991 in the basement of Jeff Lebesch and Kim Jordan. They founded their company based on a set of core company values that promote ethics, ecology, and economics, the foundation of the new sustainable business paradigm. Since its inception, NBB has tackled many environmental issues strategically and as a responsible corporate citizen. The company has made it a part of their culture to save, to conserve, to preserve for posterity, and to leave as little of a carbon footprint as possible in the creation of their product. The company’s focus on environmental issues is so amazing and atypical of the corporate world; it leaves one questioning “Why do they do it?” Are they doing this for strategic philanthropy...
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...daughter. They had 6 children together. In the mist of all that was going on in the colonies Adams began challenging Great Britain’s authority. “He came to view the British imposition of high taxes and tariffs as a tool of oppression, and he no longer believed that the government in England had the colonists’ best interests in mind” (network, 2014) Adams was one of few that spoke out against the stamp act and Townshend acts. He didn’t believe that the British were not thinking about the people he was just caring about the profit. Both of these acts against the colonies taxed all legal documents, newspapers and playing cards, glass and tea. All these were imported to America, these acts angered the colonists. Even though he was a prominent leader in revolutionary time he still believed that everyone deserved a fair and equal trial. This was the reason he was the lawyer to represent the British soldiers in the trial in March of 1770. The soldiers were accused of firing shots into an unruly crowd of civilians in Boston which ended up killing five people. Adams was also one of few people that attended the first continental congress in Philadelphia as a Massachusetts delegate. One year...
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...years from then. For almost a year after, this new team was referred to as Philadelphia 2010, the city and year it will officially start playing. The name was left to the fans and potential season ticket holders. Emails and surveys went out asking everyone for their input. The team wanted to include the fans as much as possible. After a month of advice and input, the team announced it would be called, Philadelphia Union. The name Union was to reference the original 13 colonies of the United States (“Philly Union History”). The announced blue and gold team colors were to symbolize the Continental Army’s uniforms. Later the crest that would go on the team jerseys was released. It included a rattlesnake which was a clear representation of Benjamin Franklin’s political cartoon from the 1750’s. The snake reminded the colonies of the dangers of disunity which was also a danger for the team. This was a symbol for the American Revolution and a sign that the team was ready to fight its competitors (“Philadelphia Union”). The Philadelphia Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz...
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...biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. The biography was conducted by countless interviews of Steve Jobs and his family, friends, and colleagues. The book gives a lot of information on Steve’s life from pretty much the start to the end; it also covers a lot of information and experience dealing with the business aspect of his life as well as the personal side. It was written and put together over the course of two years and was published on October 24, 2011 which was nineteen days after his death. Steve Jobs was a college dropout who went to Reed College in Portland Oregon which was one of the most expensive schools in the nation at the time. He went there because he wanted something more artistic and interesting than was offered at a state school. Jobs ended up working at Atari. Jobs helped improve some of the games by pushing chips to produce fun designs. One day, the founder of Atari Nolan Bushnell who was also Jobs entrepreneurial role model, called him into his office and sketched out a single-player version of pong on a blackboard and asked jobs to design it. Bushnell knowing that Jobs was not a great engineer knew that Jobs would seek help from Stephen Wozniak a high school friend of Jobs. While working on the single-player version of pong with Wozniak, Jobs realized that he has to be his own boss and that’s the only way his visions/ideas will become a reality. This turned out to be a key turning point in Steve Jobs life along with the amazing operating system...
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...One day this spring, a psychiatrist named Dorothy Lewis got a call from her friend Betty, who works in New York City. Betty had just seen a Broadway play called "Frozen," written by the British playwright Bryony Lavery. "She said, 'Somehow it reminded me of you. You really ought to see it,'" Lewis recalled. Lewis asked Betty what the play was about, and Betty said that one of the characters was a psychiatrist who studied serial killers. "And I told her, 'I need to see that as much as I need to go to the moon.'" Lewis has studied serial killers for the past twenty-five years. With her collaborator, the neurologist Jonathan Pincus, she has published a great many research papers, showing that serial killers tend to suffer from predictable patterns of psychological, physical, and neurological dysfunction: that they were almost all the victims of harrowing physical and sexual abuse as children, and that almost all of them have suffered some kind of brain injury or mental illness. In 1998, she published a memoir of her life and work entitled "Guilty by Reason of Insanity." She was the last person to visit Ted Bundy before he went to the electric chair. Few people in the world have spent as much time thinking about serial killers as Dorothy Lewis, so when her friend Betty told her that she needed to see "Frozen" it struck her as a busman's holiday. But the calls kept coming. "Frozen" was winning raves on Broadway, and it had been nominated for a Tony. Whenever someone who knew Dorothy...
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...Biography of Walt Whitman Walter "Walt" was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and – in addition to publishing his poetry – was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. He died at age 72 and his funeral became a public spectacle. Whitman's sexuality is often discussed alongside his poetry. Though biographers continue to debate his sexuality, he is usually described as either homosexual or bisexual in his feelings and attractions. However, there is disagreement among biographers as to whether Whitman had actual sexual experiences with men. Whitman was concerned with politics throughout...
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...most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!” Marijuana is one of the safest medicinal substances on the planet and is supported by many acclaimed celebrity role models. Famous Hollywood actor Johnny Depp says, “I’m not a big pothead or anything like that… but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol”. Other well known supporters of marijuana include Snoop Dogg, all of the Marley family, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Michael Phelps, Chris Farley, Al Gore, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Nietzsche, Barack Obama, John Adams, James Madison, JFK, and of course myself. A total of 11 United States presidents either grew, smoked, or supported the legalization of Marijuana. With the support of some of the greatest thinkers and world leaders of all time it’s a wonder that marijuana is still illegal. “Government ties is really why the government lies” – Immortal Technique. Common Misconceptions about marijuana are set about by high end government officials who think only of themselves and own their prosperity. For instance few people know the history of weed and the means by which it was criminalized. Most have probably seen “Reefer Madness”, the ridiculous propaganda film set about by the U.S. government to discourage the use of marijuana. The movie debuted in 1936 making arbitrary claims, calling Cannabis “The devils weed”, and stating that weed is...
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...Made By Jason & Franklin. This Document Is Strictly Prohibited For Commercial Purposes Without Authorization. List 1 GRE Verbal 750 Quantitative 800, AW 5.5 2008 10 Princeton, MIT, M. Fin Unit 1 ABANDON A B D I C AT E ABASE ABERRANT ABASH ABET A B AT E A B E YA N C E A B B R E V I AT E ABHOR abandon [ 1 n. ] carefree, freedom from constraint added spices to the stew with complete abandon unconstraint, uninhibitedness, unrestraint 2 v. to give (oneself) over unrestrainedly abandon herself to a life of complete idleness abandon oneself to emotion indulge, surrender, give up 3 v. to withdraw from often in the face of danger or encroachment abandon the ship/homes salvage 4 v. to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to) NASA the bad weather forced NASA to abandon the launch abort, drop, repeal, rescind, revoke, call off keep, continue, maintain, carry on abase [ 1 v. ] to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem was unwilling to abase himself by pleading guilty to a crime that he did not commit debauch, degrade, profane, vitiate, discredit, foul, smirch, take down elevate, ennoble, uplift, aggrandize, canonize, deify, exalt abash [ 1 vt. ] to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of ,disconcert, embarrass Nothing could abash him. discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, faze, fluster, nonplus, mortify embolden abate [ 1 v. ] to reduce in degree or intensity / abate his rage/pain taper off intensify 2 v. ...
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...OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY OUTLINE OF OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY C O N T E N T S CHAPTER 1 Early America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CHAPTER 2 The Colonial Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CHAPTER 3 The Road to Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CHAPTER 4 The Formation of a National Government . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 CHAPTER 5 Westward Expansion and Regional Differences . . . . . . . 110 CHAPTER 6 Sectional Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 CHAPTER 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 CHAPTER 8 Growth and Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 CHAPTER 9 Discontent and Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 CHAPTER 10 War, Prosperity, and Depression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 CHAPTER 11 The New Deal and World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 CHAPTER 12 Postwar America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 CHAPTER 13 Decades of Change: 1960-1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 CHAPTER 14 The New Conservatism and a New World Order . . . . . . 304 CHAPTER 15 Bridge to the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 PICTURE PROFILES Becoming a Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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