The Innovators of American Literature From their critical assessments on how to improve themselves and to the American public that they influenced by their writings, Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin illustrate American themes in their personal narratives that quintessentially make part of ...

Benjamin Franklin and Nathaniel Hawthorne were both very important to America\'s early literature. Franklin\'s \"Autobiography\" and Hawthorne\'s \"My Kinsman, Major Molineux\" represent the extremes of leaving home. Franklin makes accomplishing the American dream of the self-made man looks easy. Ha...

Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography "It will be remarked that, tho` my Scheme was not wholly without Religion there was in it no Mark of any of the distinguishing Tenets of any particular Sect. I had purposely avoided them; for being fully persuaded of the Utility ...

The Influence Writings of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin is one of the best-known figures in American history. His industrious rise to success, his role in this country\'s struggle for independence, and his investigations into the mysteries of electricity are among his famous accomplishmen...

The validity of Benjamin Franklin's idea that certain virtues lead to success and happiness has much validity but has diminished greatly since Franklin's time. Many of the virtues that were discussed by Franklin in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, have great meaning today, but do n...

During the 1700's, people from many different countries began to swarm to America, causing societies to form and new ideas and opportunities to come about. In The Autobiography of Ben Franklin and John Crevecoeur's Letters From an American Farmer, different ideas of American ideals are ex...

Why Benjamin Franklin was a DeistThe Age of Reason; this is what the eighteenth century is often refereed to. It was called the Age of Reason because people were interested in logic. Being concerned with logic, people began to loose faith in religions that said humans were evil by nature and only a ...

The Innovators of American LiteratureFrom their critical assessments on how to improve themselves and to the American public that they influenced by their writings, Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin illustrate American themes in their personal narratives that quintessentially make part of Ameri...

Land of the Free?: A Look at Oppression in America's past Throughout the past, oppression has been a part of Human relations, from the treatment of siblings to the enslavement of an entire race of people, to everything in between. This is empirically proven through the non-fictional autobiograp...

The black and white word of American literature has had a potent affect on the American culture. Every aspect of it from, early Puritan literature to contemporary writing has influenced several portions relating to choices America has made in history. These portions include not only politics and t...

Benjamin Franklin, one of the most important people of the new American Dream was born in Boston in January 1706 to a tradesman and a homemaker. It seemed unlikely that Benjamin Franklin would succeed in becoming one of the shapers of the American dream.Josiah Franklin, his father, a young Dyer in E...