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Benjamin Franklin Ben Franklin
1,709 wordsIn his many careers as a printer, moralist, essayist, civic leader, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and philosopher, for later generations of Americans he became both a spokesman and a model for the national character. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan. 17, 1706, into a religious Puritan household. His father, Josiah, was a candlemaker and a skillful mechanic. His mother, Asian Bens parents raised thirteen children -- the survivors of Josiah's seventeen children by two wives ...
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British Troops British Army
619 wordsThe Battle of Brandywine: Part 1 of 10 The British... Many of the 15, 000 British troops spent the night in Kennett Square -- population 2, 000 -- unwinding and carousing, while a battle General Howe's flanking strategy was devised two days earlier: While General Knyphausen attacked at Chadd's Ford, as Washington expected, Cornwallis would stealthily move north, cross the Brandywine, and flank Washington's right. [Map and a fuller The Americans... By the night of September 10 th, the American tr...
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Freedom Of Speech Benjamin Franklin
1,346 wordsBenjamin Franklin is unmistakably the most resplendent figure in American history. Starting out as an apprentice, Franklin was to become a renowned printer, a great statesman, and an innovator always trying to find ways to improve his community. But how could this peasant apprentice become such an influential man in a large-scale society such as Philadelphia? This was the question that baffled and worried many aristocrats of the early eighteenth century. For Franklin was to become a household na...
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Benjamin Franklin Thomas Edison
974 wordsBenjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father's name was Josiah Franklin and his mother's name was Asian Folger. Benjamin was the 15 th child of 17 and was the 10 th boy. Benjamin went to grammar school from age eight to ten and decided to stop, but read enough books to educate himself. After leaving school he went to work for his dad making candles. He did not like working for his dad so he became a cutler. At age 13 he worked with his brother James, who h...
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Operating Profit First Union
1,017 wordsVeterans Stadium was opened in 1971 and is the home of both the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football Conference. It is located on 74 acres in South Philadelphia and is located near the First Union Complex. First Union Complex is home to the Flyers of the National Hockey League and the 76 's of the National Basketball Association among other Philadelphia sports teams. Before Veterans Stadium was built the Phillies played in Site Park al...
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Declaration Of Independence One Of The Worlds
1,417 wordsFew men have done as much for the world as Benjamin Franklin. He had many talents that he used to help the world. He was a diplomat, a scientist, an inventor, a philosopher, an educator, and a public servant. During his life, Benjamin Franklin did many things such as statesmanship, book-printing, and inventing and discovering many important things. He invented an efficient heating stove and proved that lightning is electricity. All of his great achievements have helped to make him one of the wor...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Academic Search Elite
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PART II: THE EFFECTS One major consequence attributed to having sex as a teenager, and even as an adult is the acquiring of diseases. Diseases in this respect are not limited to just those that affect the physical well-being of a person but also that which affects the mental well-being of the person. Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are gaining more and more publicity. Every year more and more teenagers are getting infected with some...
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Tourette Syndrome Obsessive Compulsive
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Social Security Reform Retirement Income
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Public Spirited Gentleman Lees Suspicions Franklin
1,981 wordsBenjamin Franklin, a Path beyond the Thought Like many of the colonists of his generation, Benjamin Franklins character was shaped by pragmatism, rather than by religion or ideology. He was most comfortable pursuing practical, achievable, goals. Indeed, if Morgan is right, Franklins chief goal was to be useful to his contemporaries. In Franklin, Morgan has a truly great subject. A self-educated polymath endowed with formidable charm and genius, Franklin became the leading figure in colonial poli...
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Kidney Failure Sq Km
2,426 wordsAccess in quality care for dialysis patients in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Description of selected community (location, statistics, etc) Philadelphia is the second largest city on the East Coast (North America). The city of Philadelphia is located 100 miles south of New York and 133 miles north of Washington, D. C. The city ranks fifth in the nation. Population of Philadelphia reaches 5. 8 million people. (Philadelphia Facts & Figures) Metro: 6, 188, 463 (2000 census) 5, 892, 937 (1990 censu...
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Ninth Grade Community Based
1,241 wordsThe Development of a Prevention Dropout for Secondary Student in an Urban High School Setting According to Noguera and Dimon (2003), the rate of dropout in American urban high schools may be the biggest but least known problem today. Noguera and Dimon estimated that at a great amount of schools 50 % and even more of the students who start their ninth grade leave it without graduation. [ 3 ]. Many researchers who work on this problem agree that there are many factors which contribute to the rate ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Gordon Pym
11,004 wordsIn the Valley of the Shows Edgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass. , on January 19, 1809, the son of poverty stricken actors, David, and Elizabeth (born Arnold) Poe. His parents were then filling an engagement in a Boston theatre, and the appearances of both, together with their sojourns in various places during their wandering careers, are to be plainly traced in the play bills of the time. Paternal Ancestry The father of the poet was one David Poe of Baltimore, Maryland, wh...
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Pierpont Morgan Hartford Connecticut
5,030 wordsJohn Pierpont Morgan is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern United States economy. He was an industrial genius that is accredited with the founding of many companies including General Electric and AT 038; T. However, Pierpont is looked upon as a saint and demon the same. He received a honorary degree from Harvard university that read: Public citizen, patron of literature and art, prince among merchants, who by his skill, wisdom and courage, has twice in times of stress repelle...
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Modern Critical Interpretations Chelsea House Publishers
1,637 wordsby Hemingways Themes Hemingway's Themes by Rachel Spring Hemingway's greatness is in his short stories, which rival any other master of the form (Bloom 1). The Old Man and the Sea is the most popular of his later works (1). The themes represented in this book are religion (Gurko 13 - 14), heroism (Brenner 31 - 32), and character symbolism (28). These themes combine to create a book that won Hemingway a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (3). Santiago...
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Declaration Of Independence Continental Congress
506 wordsJohn John Dickinson John Dickinson John Dickinson, born on November 13, 1732, was raised with an excellent educational background with would later bring him into politics. John was born the second son of Samuel and Mary Dickinson near the village of Trade in Talbot County, Maryland. By the age of eighteen, Dickinson began the study of law in Philadelphia. John then continued his education at London s Middle Temple, and was admitted to the Delaware Bar. Four years later, he returned to Philadelph...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Crime Scene
3,183 wordsAmerica, the land of the free, the land of the just. It is here, where people from all over the world can come for refuge from tyranny. Here, people are not judged by their color, but by who they are. Too bad it isnt true, for what you are about to read will contradict everything that America is supposed to be. Mumia Abu Jamal, a former Philadelphia journalist, was put through an unfair and biased trial, then convicted of murdering a Philadelphia cop in 1982, and has been on death row since. And...
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829 wordsFree Mumia Abu-Jamal A political prisoner is both a fellow citizen who received an unfair trial and a powerful symbol for those of us who are convinced this unfairness partly results from their political beliefs-beliefs that highlight the criminal justice system as a structure of unfairness. For example Nelson Mandela a South African political activist and lawyer Nelson was the organizational leader of the African national congress, Mandela was sentenced in 1964 to life in prison for sabotage, t...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Black Panther Party
2,004 wordsNear 4 AM on December 9, 1981 Mumia Abu-Jamal was working a second job as a nighttime cab driver in the hope of making additional money for the upcoming holiday season. He was driving west on Locust St. when he saw that his brothers Volkswagen had been pulled to the side of the road by a Philadelphia Police cruiser. Mumia pulled into a parking garage on the North side of Locust so he could question his brother to make sure he wasnt in any trouble. After emerging from the parking garage he saw Of...
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Blacks And Whites Negro Leagues
1,629 wordsAfter the Civil War, even though slavery had been outlawed, there was still a great amount of tension between blacks and whites. The southern whites were bitter toward the loss of their slaves, and although the north fought for the slaves freedom, they did not want them to have equal privileges. As a result of this, segregation was born. Segregation is the seperation of two different groups, in this case, black and white people. Blacks and whites were separated in many ways such as having differ...
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