Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
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The Enlightened American

• publisher,
• inventor,
• American statesman,
• humanist,
• revolutionary, and thinker.
• And even more! (musician and economist)

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The Genius

• Went to school for less than a year and he was
  always the top student
• He went on a vegetarianism to save money to buy
  books!
• Library

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Fresh Start as a Printer

• At the age of 12, he started as an
• apprentice with older brother James.
• The Secretive Author
• At the age of 22, he opened his own printing
  shop. His newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette
• Public Printer of PA, DE, NJ, and MD
• Established newspapers in New York, Connecticut,
  and two islands in the West Indies.

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Inventor Statesman

• Invention starts from the age of 42
• Swim fins, bifocals, the lightning rod, an
  odometer, the Franklin stove, etc.
• Electricity
• In 1757, a colonial representative
• Declaration of Independence
• Treaty of Alliance with France
• Treaty of Peace with Great Britain

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A citizen Ben

• Established and improved institutions such as
  circulating libraries, volunteer fire
  departments, public hospitals, agricultural
  colleges, mutual insurance companies, and
  intellectual societies.

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13 Virtues (age of 20!)

• "TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness drink not to
  elevation."
• "SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others
  or yourself avoid trifling conversation."
• "ORDER. Let all your things have their places
  let each part of your business have its time."

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Day Schedule

• Morning What kinds of good conduct WILL I
  accomplish?
• Afternoon
• Evening What kinds of good conduct DID I
  accomplish?

• Wake up at 5, morning prayer, and plan the day
• Work.
• Organize things, listen to music, reflect the
  day.
• Go to bed at 10.

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"Well done is better than well said."
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He was THE Leader
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• http//www.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inventor.html
• http//library.thinkquest.org/22254/inventions.htm
  
• http//bensguide.gpo.gov/benfranklin/index.html
• http//www.pbs.org/benfranklin/index.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
• http//www.ushistory.org/franklin/index.htm
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