Mena Abduljabbar. History 108. Mr. Solheim . I Am Writing

Mena Abduljabbar History 108 Mr. Solheim I am writing a paper that is talking about two Americans Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin, who are hard workers, and self-sacrificing as young men. they wrote personal narratives, in which they tell of youth happenings and of their adult attempting for moral perfection. The reasons I chose those two people are that they spent their lives searching for perfection. Edwards try to find perfection through God while Franklin improved himself through his own. Both believed in a godly creator, but they differed in how happiness was achieved, and they are two very appreciated authors nowadays, but they never had the desire of knowing one another in their own time. Edwards and Franklin influenced†¦show more content†¦After a period of a time, he set up a printing house of his own from which he printed The Pennsylvania Gazette,. In 1732, he started to issue his famous Poor Richard s Almanac for the improvement of which he advanced or collected those terse exclamations of experie nced wisdom which are the base of a huge part of his popular standing. In 1758, he printed in it Father Abraham s Sermon, now observed as the most famous piece of literature produced in Colonial America. In 1748, he sold his business to get rest for study, having now touched comparative wealth; and after a couple of years, he had made discoveries that gave him standing with the learned all the way through Europe. In 1757, he was sent to England to the complaint against the inspiration of the Peens in the government of the colony. In 1767 he traversed to France, where he was received with honor; but before his arrival home in 1775, he lost his place as postmaster through his share to Massachusetts the famous letter of Hutchinson and Oliver. On his arrival in Philadelphia he was chosen a member of the Continental Congress and in 1777 he was sender to France as commissioner for the United States. He continued till 1785, the favorite of French society; and when he finally returned he re ceived a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American independence. He passes away on April 17, 1790. Edwards, the only son in a family of