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Is this what Tim's brother Sam is fighting for in the American Revolution?
Is this poem what America is?
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13 comments:
I thought that the video was ok but I didn['t understand the video that well.
i thought the video was nice.
at some points i didnt really understand it.
I Thought Its Was Beatiful Very Nice Poem Telling About LIfe Its Very Easy To UNderstand If You Think About It IDK About You But I Liked It Alot It Was Beautiful ;]
" I Am Blueberry Muffins And Eggs Over Easy " ( From Poem "I Am America" ) That Is My Favorite Part Of The Poem It Was Very Nice But Took Forever To Load ;]]
* Chip * Aka McLovin
i liked the poem. i showed the various sides of america. the one thing they should of shown was some of the negitives.
i thought the video was very touching. it explained the different sides of America, and the different types of people in America.
I am America
By: Morgan Gosciak
I am a country of many colors, I am a country of the poor the rich, and the hungry
I am America
I am a country of trees, bushes, and flowers, I am the bagles at Tim Horton's, I am the fries at Mc Donalds
I am America
I am the kids at the playground, I am the familes at Thanksgiving diner
I am America
I am the penalty box at the Sabre's game, I am the cake at a baby shower, or a wedding
I am America
I am kids at school, I am the conversation at the dinner table, I am the bed in which kids sleep
I am America
I am the neaklace on a girls neak, I am the ring in which be wed
I am America
I am the Polish, I am the Irish, I am the Italien, I am the German, and I am so many more
I am America
I am full of many different races, I am black, I am white, I am African American, and so many more
I am America
I am weak, I am poor, I am strong, I am rich, I am young, I am old, I am noble, and so many more
I am America
I am war, I am peace, I am helpful, I am graceful
I am America
I am America
I am America
by:master
I am America
I am strong,I am pround,I am weak
I am not bully, and I am a bully
I control the world
I am a soccer GOD
I am a child
I am the door to the world
I go to church every sunday
I play video games
it got kinda boring and it took to long with the dramatic pause so i got bored
boo
WHAT UP GUYS
I own you all
Angelique Holland 3/25/08
English Mr. Lew
American Revolution: Benjamin Franklin
A little about Franklin
Benjamin was born January 17, 1706, and he died April 17, 1790.Born in Boston, Massachusetts. His nationality at birth was British, and at death, American. Franklin was baptized at Old South Meeting House. His father’s name was Josiah Franklin. Ben’s father’s marriage produced by 17 children; Benjamin was the 15th child, and the youngest son.
Franklin wanted to attend Boston Latin School, but he didn’t graduate to college. He continued his education through various reading! Benjamin’s father wanted him to attend school with the celery but only had enough money to send him to school for 2 years.
By 1730, Franklin had set up a printing house of his own and had contrived to become a publisher of a newspaper called Pennsylvania Gazette. In 1753, both Harvard and Yale awarded him with honorary degrees.
At the age of 17, Ben ran away to Philadelphia seeking a new start, and a new city. Franklin was an amazing inventor! Among his many inventions were: the lighting rod, the glass harmonica, the Franklin stone, Bifocal glasses, and the flexible urinary catheter. In 1743, Benjamin found the American Philosophical Society to help scientific men to discuss their discoveries and theories.
Music Endeavors
Franklin is known as to play the violin, the Harp, and the Guitar. He also composed music. He invented a much improved version of the glass harmonica, and which each glass was made to rotate on its own with the player’s fingers held instead of the other way around, this invention soon found its way to Europe. His profession was a scientist, writer, and a Politian.
Public life
Franklin became a national hero in America when he spear headed the effort to have parliament repeal the unpopular, stamp act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister relationships. In 1754, he headed the Pennsylvanian Delegation to the Albany congress. Franklin became involved in Philadelphia politics and rapidly progressed! In 1757, He was sent to England by Pennsylvania assembly as a colonial agent to protest against the political influence of peen family. In 1759, the University of St. Andrews awarded him with an honorary Doctor degree! In 1762, Oxford University awarded Franklin with an honorary doctorate for his scientific accomplishments and then he will be known as “Doctor Franklin”! In 1763, soon after Franklin returned to Pennsylvania, the western frontier was engulfed in bitter war. Known as Pontiac’s rebellion. And later of 1767, the Townshend acts led to the end of his relationships for British government and his alliance with proponents of colonial independence.
Franklin’s part of the Declaration of Independence.
In 1776, he was a member of the committee of 5 that drafted the declaration of independence and made several small changes to Thomas Jefferson’s draft.
Constitutional Convention
Between 1778 and 1788, he finished is autobiography.
In 1787, Benjamin served as a delegate to Philadelphia convention. He held a horrific position and seldomly engaged in debate. He the only Foundation Father who is signatory of all four of the major documents of the founding of the United States. In 1787, a group of prominent ministers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania proposed the foundation of a new colleague to be named in Franklin’s honor! The college is now called “the Franklin and Marshall College”. He was the leader of his day in the study of electricity. He formed both first public lending libraries in American and first fire department in Pennsylvania. As a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped make independence possible. He was an early proponent of colonial unity and as a political writer and an activist, more than anyone invented the idea of an American nation.
His Marriage
In 1730, Benjamin Franklin marries Deborah Read. During his marriage with Deborah, they had 3 boys and 1 girl for children. In 1724, Miss’ read’s mother was worry of allowing her daughter to wed to a guy at the age of seven-teen, on the way to London! Her husband having to recently died, Mrs. Read declined Franklin’s offer of marriage.
The Albany Plan Union
The Albany Plan Union was created my Benjamin Franklin. The plan was proposed to create one central government for the 13 colonies. “Join or Die” was the first political cartoon in American history. Benjamin also created this invention! In the join or die cartoon, the thirteen colonies were represented by a snake.
Franklin my not have financially supported one particular nation. At the age of 20, it was clear that he believed in a physical resurrection of the body some time after death. Benjamin Franklin died at the age of 84. And do to the college named after him, at of 1990, more than $2,000,000 had accumulated in Franklin’s Philadelphia trust which had loaded to the money to local residents. When the trust come due, Philadelphia dedicated to spend it on scholarships for local high schools.
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