Revolutionary War Heroes
There were many great men in the past who have contributed greatly to the growth
prosperity and independence to this country. These historical figures include such men as
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. These men served their country as
revolutionary war leaders and helped American to become the free and just country it is
today.
Benjamin Franklin, born January 17, 1706, was the 10th son, and 15th child, of 17
children in the Josiah Franklin family. Josiah was a soap and candlemaker, who lived in
Boston, Massachusetts with his second wife, Abiah Folger. Although Franklin learned to
read at an early age, he only attended grammar school for two years. By the time he was
10 years old, Franklin was working for his father. However, he didn’t enjoy the
candlemaking profession, and two years later, Franklin was apprenticed to his brother
James, a printer.
For five years, Franklin sought to master the printers' trade. During this time, he
also strove to improve his education. Franklin read numerous classic novels and perfected
his writing style. One night, Franklin slipped a letter, signed "Silence Dogood," under the door of his brother's newspaper, the New England Courant. That letter and the next 13
written by Franklin were published anonymously. The essays were widely read and
acclaimed for their satire.
In 1723, at age 17, Franklin left for Philadelphia. He got employed at a printing
job in London, learning many important skills. He came back to Pennsylvania and had by
1730 become owner of a printing business. This is where Franklin published his first
official literary work, The Pennsylvania Gazette.
In 1731, Franklin founded what is considered the first public library. During the
next several years, Franklin was responsible for establishing the first fire department, a police force, and the Academy of Philadelphia, which became the University of
Pennsylvania.
In 1732, Franklin began compiling and publishing the annual Poor Richard's
Almanac. With its homely virtues, it attracted a large amount of people interested in his
work and made Franklin's name a household word.
Franklin had gotten involved in politics and represented Pennsylvania at the
Albany Congress in 1754, called in response to the French and Indian Wars. In 1757,
Franklin was sent to England to petition the king for the right to levy taxes. He remained in England for the next five years, and in that time he obtained permission for
Pennsylvania to tax the estates of its proprietors, successfully repealed the Stamp Act, and represented the voice of several colonies. He befriended powerful British political leaders and wrote political satires and pamphlets on public affairs, helping keep the colonies informed on foreign affairs.
Benjamin Franklin was the colonial agent representing Massachusetts in Parliament in Britain. During his time of representation, several events were occurring that were essentially leading to a rift between the colonies and Britain. The Tea Act was an act that allowed only the sale of tea that was manufactured by the East India Company. The monopoly was put in place by Parliament to help bail out the company that was bankrupt and ship out the excess tea in the warehouses. In effect, this helped people in Parliament who were stockholders from losing on their monetary gains from the company. Many of the colonists were angry and opposed this act by simply boycotting the tea. The resistance against the Tea Act was felt all around the Thirteen Colonies, with several citizens in Boston taking matters into their own hands. The Boston Tea Party, which took...
However, not everyone gets the 7-9 hours of sleep they need on a regular basis. In a study done by the National Institute of Health, one-third of Americans get less than 7 hours of sleep and more than 70% of high school students are not getting enough sleep on a school night (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 2012). Sleep deprivation is slowly becoming a global issue that the general population, especially students, are not very concerned about. This lack of concern is worrisome because sleep deprivation can have negative effects on a person’s lifestyle, especially on their physical health and their performance in
In Jeannette Wall’s memoir The Glass Castle, she gives a riveting account of a childhood plagued by an alcoholic father, a nomadic lifestyle, and extreme poverty. Throughout the hardships that Jeanette is forced to overcome, she continues to love and forgive her parents. While there are many compelling themes presented by Walls, there are three themes that are of particular interests to educators. By analyzing the themes of the effects of alcoholism on family life, forgiveness, and nonconformity, educators will deepen their understanding of the effects of poverty on the lives of students, the importance of incorporating community in the classroom, and their role as a guardian for their students.
More than often, American’s argue that if we have the technology to gain access to these “miracle meds”, then we should take advantage of it. To receive an opposing view, the National Institute of Drug Abuse asked teens around America why they think prescription drugs are overused, and the results were shocking; 62%: “Easy to get from parent's medicine cabinets”, 51%: “They are not illegal drugs”, 49%: “Can claim to have prescription if caught”, 43%: “They are cheap”, 35%: “Safer to use than illegal drugs”, 33%: “Less shame attached to using”, 32%: “Fewer side effects than street drugs”, 25%: “Can be used as study aids”, and 21%: “Parents don't care as much if caught”. I believe the major problem here isn’t the medication, but instead the fact that our nation is extremely uninformed on the “do’s and dont’s” of prescription medication. When “the United States is 5 percent of the world’s population and consumes 75 percent of the the world's prescription drugs” (CDC), there is a problem present, no matter the reason. Clearly, many critics believe the breathtaking amount of pills we consume in America is simply for the better good, but tend to forget the effects that are soon to follow.
Even though Franklin notes that he and his family were by no means aristocrats, they did live relatively comfortable. They were comfortable in the sense that even though Benjamin Franklin started working at a very young age, he was still able to go to grammar school at age eight. There he quickly rose to the head of his class, and before long he was sent to a different grammar school to develop his writing and math skills. While he failed at math, he was very good at writing. Although Franklin did not finish his education, he still continued to read and write. Franklin’s father, noticing that he was particularly interested in reading put Benjamin to work for his brother James who was a printer in Boston. At age twelve, Benjamin Franklin signed an indenture to work for his brother for the next eight years.
Prescription drugs are making parents more overwhelmed than ever before about their teenaged child! Why must they worry so much about their teenaged child? “When you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t…” (Davies). This quote signifies that adolescents and adults have the option to quit or not try the drug when being introduced, but when they get started on the drug and they are thinking abouting quitting, they cannot because of the addiction they have on the drug. Each day they try to stay away from the drug, but they are having really bad withdrawals. Rockingham County Schools should inform parents about the strategies for preventing, recognizing, and addressing prescription drug abuse.
Years ago, the common image of an adolescent drug abuser was a teen trying to escape from reality on illegal substances like cocaine, heroin, or marijuana. Today, there is a great discrepancy between that perception and the reality of who is likely to abuse drugs. A teenage drug abuser might not have to look any further than his or her parent’s medicine chest to ‘score.’ Prescription drug abuse by teens is on the rise. Also, teens are looking to prescription drugs to fulfill different needs other than to feel good or escape the pressures of adulthood. Teens may be just as likely to resort to drugs with ‘speedy’ side effects, like Ritalin to help them study longer, as they are to use prescription painkillers to check out of reality. Pressures on teens are growing, to succeed in sports or to get high grades to get into a good college (Pressures on today’s teens, 2008, theantidrug). Furthermore, because prescriptions drugs are prescribed by doctors they are less likely to be seen as deleterious to teens’ health. A lack of awareness of the problem on the part of teens, parents and society in general, the over-medication of America, and the greater stresses and pressures put upon teens in the modern world have all conspired to create the growing problem of prescription drug abuse by teens.
Imagine a parent walking into what looks like a conference room. A sheet of paper waits on a table with numerous questions many people wish they had control over. Options such as hair color, skin color, personality traits and other physical appearances are mapped out across the page. When the questions are filled out, a baby appears as he or she was described moments before. The baby is the picture of health, and looks perfect in every way. This scenario seems only to exist in a dream, however, the option to design a child has already become a reality in the near future. Parents may approach a similar scenario every day in the future as if choosing a child’s characteristics were a normal way of life. The use of genetic engineering should not give parents the choice to design their child because of the act of humans belittling and “playing” God, the ethics involved in interfering with human lives, and the dangers of manipulating human genes.
Sleep is one of the unavoidable daily-living activities and it is one of the most important factors contributing to a person’s health. A quality sleep is essential for the physical, cognitive and psychological well-being of a person. Learning, memory processing and maintenance of the brain are among the most important functions of sleep. In addition to maintaining the brain, sleep has important roles in controlling the functions of many other body systems. Sleep-related issues are common in today’s society, especially in high school and college students’ populations. “In recent surveys, nearly 75% of university students reported occasional sleep problems such as difficulty in falling asleep, sleep disturbances, delayed sleep phase syndrome and excessive daytime sleepiness” (Altun, Insaf, et al.). These sleep
What do one think of when they hear the words “Designer Babies”? A couple designing their own baby of course, and it’s become just that. Technology has made it possible for there to be a way for doctors to modify a babies characteristics and its health. Genetically altering human embryos is morally wrong, and can cause a disservice to the parents and the child its effecting.
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts January 17, 1706. Benjamin Franklin was one of a ton of children. His father's name was Josiah Franklin. He made soap to take care of his family. Benjamin Franklin’s mother’s name was Abiah Folger, she was Josiah's second wife in his life. Josiah was a father and caretaker of 17 children. Benjamin Franklin lived in a large and poor family.
Among teens in the United States, some of the most commonly abused drugs are prescription drugs.
Many debilitating and severe unwanted diseases, genetic disorders and disabilities can be avoided through the creation of designer babies. A child's quality of life would be drastically increased if they evade Down Syndrome, deformities or heart disease for example. In a sense, it isn’t all that different to hearing aid, medication for an illness or chemotherapy for cancer, but on a larger scale and earlier in someone’s life, before it even really begins in fact. Some people would argue that changing genes is changing who people are, which they view as ‘wrong’, but genes aren’t exactly the only things that make up a person anyway. The way that they grow up and their surroundings also make people...
Sleep has always been a popular subject among humans. There have been many studies that examine sleep and its correlation with a wide variety of variables, such as depression, energy levels, and grades. Students, as a group, are widely studied. As the world’s future leaders and thinkers, there is great importance placed on their achievements. In this study the effect of student sleep habits on perceived academic performance is investigated. Many things may affect students’ academic success among these variables are sleep habits.
...ture generation healthier. There’s too many questions left unexplained and to many unknown facts about the human genome and how it works. We should not pursue this kind of science, but in fact work on bettering our environment to help influence the development of a healthier generation. Nature will evolve at its own pace, so let’s not take on the role of playing “god” and have a possibility of ending up with a genetic problem. Eventually and hopefully the 30 designer babies that have already been born, will grow and help scientist with their studies. Genetically engineering unborn babies is morally wrong and we shouldn’t alternate a human in anyway, especially if they can’t communicate. Why waste funds on alternating nature, when we can use it for other science that can benefit us other ways? Let’s prevent, what could end up in a major disaster and accept Darwinism.