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Friends of Franklin: Conflicted transatlantic interpretation of Benjamin Franklin in London
In 2006 Benjamin Franklin House opened in London just in time for Franklin's 300th birthday. The opening represented decades of work by interested parties in England and the United States determined to "save" Franklin's only extant home. Individuals on both sides of the Atlantic raised interest, …
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From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Adams: A Study of American Autobiography
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The Rhetoric of Benjamin Franklin as an Ethical Model for the Practice of Sales
… This project illuminates the rhetoric of Benjamin Franklin as a model to follow to enter into such practices. Franklin, very similar to Aristotle and MacIntyre relied on the idea of phronesis to guide him in his business affairs. Practical wisdom is the specific type of wisdom that …
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The Benjamin Franklin Randolph Monument: A Symbol of Remembrance and Defiance In the Age of Reconstruction
<p>Dedicated to Benjamin Franklin Randolph on February 27, 1871 in Columbia, South Carolina, the Randolph Monument became a political symbol around which Republicans and the African American community rallied around during the days of Ku Klux Klan violence in the late 1860s and early 1870s. …
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Musical attitudes and activities of representative American statesmen
… colonial statesmen as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams.
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The Diplomatic Career of Silas Deane
… July 4, 1776, he was appointed to serve with Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee as a diplomatic representative. He was recalled in March 1778, charged with misconduct. |This paper purports to follow Deane’s activities in France and his efforts until 1781 to secure a full hearing by congress on …
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"""The power of a wise imagination"": Case studies in value conflict in early eighteenth century America"
… of the values of two complex personalities, Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards.
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The American dream and literature: how the themes of self-reliance and individualism in American literature are relevant in preserving both the aesthetics and the ideals of the American dream
… examination and analysis of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the paper will demonstrate how these works are sacred texts because they are rooted in the themes …
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Colonizing the Mind: The Library as a Site for Colonial American Identity Formation
… Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto, served as the impetus for society libraries across colonial America. While inspiring ubiquitous learning, the Library Company also reinforced the English language in linguistically diverse Philadelphia. Furthermore, …
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The Lincoln tradition in American poetry
… George Washington, Roger Williams, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Dolly Madison, Barbara Frietchie, U. S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt are familiar to all of us because of the countless stories we have read and heard about them. Some of these tales have been in prose and some …
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A Nation in Sight: Visual Technology and Literary Culture in the Early United States
… to offer new readings of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, and Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale. A Nation in Sight provides an account of American literature in which authors …
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William Small 1734-1775: Teacher, Mentor, Scientist
… returned to England and, with the assistance of Benjamin Franklin and others, became physician and scientific advisor to Matthew Boulton, a wealthy industrialist. Small, Boulton, and Erasmus Darwin established the celebrated Birmingham Lunar Society, which played an important role in the …
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A study of residual charge of condenser
… work on residual charge. Physicists such as Benjamin Franklin, Faraday, and Maxwell recognized this. In fact Maxwell gives us the first attempt ever made at a theoretical explanation of the phenomena of absorption.¹ Today this is the principal theory recognized in the Physics world for this …
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Some aspects of estate duty on deceased estates in the Republic of South Africa: with special reference to the problems and effects of double taxation occuring in relation to the German Erbschaftsteuergesetz (Inheritance Tax Act)
… If one agreed with this statement, made by Benjamin Franklin one year prior to his death, one could come to the ultimate conclusion that there has to be a special certainty about capital transfer taxes, estate duties, inheritance taxes or other death duties levied on deceased estates. There …
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Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"
… paradise. Some colonial Americans, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, fit their understanding of China within their own Enlightenment worldview. For these individuals, chinoiserie in American homes not only reflected the owners' desires to keep up with European fashions, but …
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Joshua Gilpin, Esq., Kentmere, Delaware: the life and writings of a country gentleman
… interest in science led him to friendship with Benjamin Franklin. Because of his independence of mind and non-violence beliefs as a Quaker, Thomas, during the Revolutionary War, was exiled to Virginia where he became ill and died. ☐ As a young man Joshua Gilpin had an interest in a mercantile …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… the early republic. Lacking the innate genius of Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton, typical self-made men depended upon luck and adaptability to secure financial independence and public recognition. The literary and professional contributions of these three sailors also became part of a …
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