Benjamin Franklin's AutobiographyBenjamin Franklin's story is that of the American dream, building his way up from nothing to prestige and influence through his own hard work and skill. Still he reveals that he made some errors in his life that make him less than perfect. It is this fact that he app...

Benjamin Franklin and the PuritansLike the Puritans, Benjamin Franklin believed in God and the virtues of hard work, thrift and prosperity. Yet it is uncertain whether Franklin and the Puritans actually shared the same image of God and man.The Puritans believed that because of Adam and Eve's sin of...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards have two very different ways of looking at God and how He is involved in a person's life. The one thing they do have in common however, is their similar belief that God is all knowing, as Franklin believes, and God is all-powerful, as Edwards believes. If ...

Consenting Fathers: Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson Though Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were contemporaries, their views, backgrounds and modes of influence were very different. Benjamin Franklin was born of a large and poor family and rose to become a model of the emerging bo...

Narratives are written by those who experience certain situations that were either intricate, picturesque, or even awakening to them. American history has had many eras, which have affected individuals in certain ways. From slave narratives to war narratives, they have helped historia...

American Philosophy in the eighteenth century was divided into two halves. The first heavily influenced by the Calvinism of the Puritans, the second more directly along the lines of the European Enlightenment and associated with the political philosophy of the Founding Fathers (Thomas Jefferson, B...

The eighteenth century\'s most exciting intellectual movement is called the Enlightenment. It\'s powerful dedication to reason and rational thought that until quite recently the era was sometimes characterized as the Age of Reason. The turn toward what became known by 1750 as the Enlightenment began...

The American Revolution can be compared to a teenager moving out on his or her own for the first time. While scary, it's a new adventure, and there comes a certain sense of autonomy from it. Britain could be considered that sad parent with a severe case of empty nest syndrome, at once decidin...