Benjamin+Franklin

Benjamin Franklin ===** Benjamin Franklin, born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17,1706 and died on April 17,1790. Benjamin was borned in a poor family. Benjamin is an inventor, a scientist, publisher,politican and a printer. He is the youngest child and the 10th boy of 17 children. When he is 10 years old, his education at school stopped. But he never stopped learning, he continued learning on his own. He had a friend who worked for the bookseller when he is young. His friends always lend him books and he read it most of the night in order to finish it and return to his friend so the employer won't notice its absence. Benjamin has a simple formula for success. Sucessful people just work a little bit harder than other people. Thomas Jefferson called Benjamin Franklin “the greatest man and ornament of the age and country in which he lived.” (As a publisher) At twelve,he was apprenticed to his brother James who publish a weekly magazine (The Spectator), later on when he is seventeen,he moved to Philadelphia and opened his own print shop and started publishing. **===

===(As a scientist) Benjamin needed glasses because he had poor vision, he got tired of putting the glasses on and taking the glasses off. He decided to invent a glasses that allow him to see both near and far so he invented the bifocals! ===

===In the past, people warm their house by building fire in a fire place, this could use up a lot of wood and could be dangerous too. Benjamin Franklin thinks that there had to be another way to warm their house so he invented a stove which is called Franklin Stove. He also found out that lightning is made out of electricity from a kite experiment. ===

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His work: Clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1736; Founded the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731; Postmaster of Philadelphia, 1737-1753; Member of Pennsylvania Assembly, 1751-1764; Deputy Postmaster gener​al of the British colonies in America, 1753; Founded Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, 1753; Agent to Europe for Pennsylvania, 1757-1762, for Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, 1764-1775; Elected to Continental Congress, 1775; Testified before Parliament concerning the Stamp Act, 1776; Postmaster General of the united colonies, 1775; Commissioner to the French Court, 1776; Minister plenipotentiary to the French Court, 1779; Negotiator in and Member of the Treaties with Gr.-Britain, 1781-1783; Member of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, President of Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, 1785; Senior member of the Constitutional Convention, 1787.

Quotes from B. Franklin:
//Genius without education is like silver in the mine.// //Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.// //God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.// //Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.// //He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.// //He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.// //He that can have patience can have what he will.// //He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.// //He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.// //He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.// //He that lives upon hope will die fasting.// // A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. //

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**Quotes from Benjamin Franklin, 11th of October**


 * What is success?

Success is when you are happy and having a family and community to be proud of and to be there of. You can find success where you are
looking for it as long as you are taking steps towards your goals. Loving one's self and others is important, environmental quality of life, be a self- started, having a sense of humour and work hard.
 * What personal qualities are needed for success?
 * Find a dictionary definition of success

Achieving brilliant results in one's work, that is, making outstanding contributions to the development of the country and bringing happiness to the people and to laugh more and much.
Achieving your goals, facing the difficulties your are having, which is goals to be set and challenges to be met. There are too many temptations in the society and that cause people hard to achieve their goal and achieiving their potential. God love us. God wants all of us to work hard to be a successful person and live happily. There is a lot of meanings of the word success. I enjoyed of knowing what success really means.
 * ​ Form your own definition of success
 * Why do people fall short of achieving their potential?
 * Why does God want us to achieve our full potential?
 * What did you enjoy/learn/discover during Ms Rogge's Workshop in Wednesday, 28th Ocotber?

25% = Part 1 = Information and bibliography =20% 25% = Part 2 = Contributions and Comments =17% 25% = Part 3 = Personal Reflections =23% 25% = Layout, appearance and design =20% OVERALL MARK =80%
 * EVALUATION**
 * Student (Self) Evaluation** - At the end of the project, students must assess their own work and post results in the DISCUSSION section.