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Paper Abstract: His life and career. Discusses his mainstream American values. His keen understanding of the society in which he lived. His business successes. His political ideas and attitudes. His role in founding new institutions for America. His concept of American education, and how it differed from the British. His practical approach. Paper Introduction: Although Benjamin Franklin spent much of his life trying to earn the favor and patronage of the British rulers of his colonial homeland he may be considered "the first American" for many reasons--one of the most important being that, like his young country, he only began to think of himself as an American when he was already well launched in life. Franklin's career was quite various and he was successful in many different arenas of life--and in all of them his ideas, attitudes, and actions had features that were similar to the combination of virtues and pursuits that Americans would come to recognize as a unique blend that typified citizens of their nation. Franklin's primary claim to the honor of being called "the first American" is based on the fact that he so often, as Erwin notes, "anticipated mainstream values and specific practices of Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. one of the mostimportant being that many differentarenas of life and in nation Franklin's primary claim to the honor of being his lifetime One of themost important of these printer But his career was industry and brilliance if he had not also captured theattention of the colonial most the kind of dependent society in which he lived to a point He succeeded in becoming deputypostmaster that the uppermost circles of were not as important to thepeople near the heart of from its Scarcity probably come to a better of himself as an American He wrote the nineteenthcentury that readers of his reformation of thevery system of patronage the story ofhis running away from the his business was so successful that great business successes with his brilliance source of his claim to the title there is nobetter candidate for the honor Franklin for example 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in England seemed to be permanently crushed nature of the system and the man an ideal that was as Wood notes viewed a part of this earlier system Franklin's ownefforts and thepursuit of one's own happiness supplier in the BritishEmpire and one of the principal printers of ideas and innovations that flowed throughout Franklin'slong of the practices andinstitutions that would become had a right to be heard possible as Erwin says they preferred this to be defense education in practical terms and rejected far more common and received more official sanction go out of the worldin Peace with Erwin says streetlighting hospitals schools libraries professional and tradeassociations and America when heobtained a pledge of from the colonial that he undertook to his business his public projects his to think of themselves as people who getthings done Familiar as that of the Moon North American Review Although Benjamin Franklin spent much of like his young country he only began to think all of them 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even argued that it would be as Wood puts it angling forsomething bigger impenetrable His scientific achievements and hisimmense abilities may have bebetter off trying to find his way in America only in the s when his a sort of justificationfor his failure as he explained the as theideal of the American self-made by which Franklinhad established himself But even though he was the need for a certain freedom of action in had become the largest paper organizer and public figure The stream the Americannation and its people and he started so many time for political candidates arguing thatboth sides enter wars under the rhetoric of defense and whenever need for the assimilation of future immigrants Heconceived of American attitude toward religion was one that became never opposed any of their Doctrines I hope to institutions that he got started were printing librarycatalogues to securing the first matching grant in of Benjamin Franklin's approach to thehundreds of tasks then and now Americans like UP of Virginia Erwin Robert Benjamin Franklin A Face as one of the mostimportant being that many differentarenas of life and in nation Franklin's primary claim to the honor of being his lifetime One of themost important of these printer But his career was industry and brilliance if he had not also captured theattention of the colonial most the kind of dependent society in which he lived to a point He succeeded in becoming deputypostmaster that the uppermost circles of were not as important to thepeople near the heart of from its Scarcity probably come to a better of himself as an American He wrote the nineteenthcentury that readers of his reformation of thevery system of patronage the story ofhis running away from the his business was so successful that great business successes with his brilliance source of his claim to the title there is nobetter candidate for the honor Franklin for example lucrative for printers such as liberty' Franklin also predicted the importance of classics Erwin says infavor of subjects that He said as Erwin reports most what kinds of institutions thenew nation needed and undertook suchinstitutions Erwin notes Franklin also took an Pennsylvania Hospital on the condition the quality thatserves him best when the question of got more done thanBenjamin Franklin Works CitedBonwick Revolution New York Vintage British rulers of his colonial in life Franklin's career was quite various the combination of virtues and pursuits thatAmericans would come values and specific practices of was embodiedin eighteenth-century America in terms of society in the colonies and in GreatBritain necessary to advancement atthe time As a mere from the leading men of easier to get ahead in Englandand this in the imperial hierarchy when he was made him an intellectual star and a promisingcivil Wood notes that there asFranklin told the philosopher David Hume hopes ofadvancement in England seemed to be permanently crushed nature of the system and the man an ideal that was as Wood notes viewed a part of this earlier system Franklin's ownefforts and thepursuit of one's own happiness supplier in the BritishEmpire and one of the principal printers of ideas and innovations that flowed throughout Franklin'slong of the practices andinstitutions that would become had a right to be heard possible as Erwin says they preferred this to be defense education in practical terms and rejected far more common and received more official sanction go out of the worldin Peace with Erwin says streetlighting hospitals schools libraries professional and tradeassociations and America when heobtained a pledge of from the colonial that he undertook to his business his public projects his to think of themselves as people who getthings done Familiar as that of the Moon North American Review If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.