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Benjamin Franklin and The Declaration of Independence
Abstract: The 18th century has brought with it many significant changes and progrees in both literacy and history.Benjamin Franklin--the first country to enjoy the reputation of scientists and inventors and musicians.He participated in drafting the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and actively advocated for the freedom and liberty of human, deeply respected by the people of the United States.Declaration of Independence stre the people's ability.“We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, liberty and pursuits of Happine.” The former sentence announce its idea.Key words: Franklin's sprites;self-evident;equal;connection
本杰明·富兰克林和《独立宣言》
摘要：18世纪是在文学和历史上都有重大变化的世纪。本杰明·富兰克林在科学发明和音乐上可以称作为美国的第一人。他参与起草了《独立宣言》和《美国宪法》，并且主张人类自由的解放，他身受美国人的爱戴和尊敬。《独立宣言》强调了人类的能动性。富兰克林的观点在《独立宣言》中得到了充分的体现。两者相互交融，独立宣言中关于人权，自由奋斗，永不言弃的思想是富兰克林的精华。
关键词：“富兰克林精神”；能动性；自由平等；联系
1.Introduction
1.1The Introduction of Benjamin Franklin's life:
Benjamin Franklin is a noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat.Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706.He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin.Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah.In all, Josiah was the father of 17 children.So he had little formal education.At twelve he was apprenticed to his elder brother, a printer, and began at 16 to publish eays under pseudonym Silence Dogood commenting on the social life which the name of a fictional in Boston.Dogood was filled with advice and very critical of the world around her, particularly concerning the iue of how women were treated.At 17, he ran off to Philadelphia, where he became a thriving printer, publishing his Poor Richard's Almanac.This is the Franklin's career as a1
printer and the earlier writer.Benjamin Franklin was the greatest literary artist in America in the Age of Enlightenment.He was a master of the periodical eay, of satire, of political journalism.He helped establish a tradition in American writing of the simple, utilitarian style, and with his Autobiography he set the form for autobiography as a genre.He created America's first great book.and he remain today the most widely read and influential of all American writers.Franklin was also a scientist.At 42 when he was wealthy and famous, Franklin retired from busine to devote himself to science and public service.As a scientist he studied the Gulf Stream, foils, and earthquakes;invented bifocal spectacles and the lightning rod(Franklin rod), and made fundamental discoveries about the character of electricity.The famous searching is his electric kite--an experiment that took the world by storm.The observations of electricity his kite experiment which verified the nature of electricity and lighting brought Franklin international fame.Franklin was died in April, 1790.And it was really a hard time for people who love him to went through.2.The contents of Benjamin Franklin's sprites and Declaration of Independence
2.1Benjamin Franklin's sprites
Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States.His portrait is on the United States one-hundred bill.Franklin is credited as being foundational to the roots of American values and character, a marriage of the practical and democratic Puritan values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment.Franklin was the person who never thought of giving up.His enjoyed the name of the prototype of the American dream.From the settlement of the New continent, the American dreamed to building their own paradise in the wilderne, believing they could make individual succe by self-reliance.Franklin's succe set them an example and fulfilled their dream, which was characterized by self-reliance, faith in the progre of society and ideas of future, practical and optimistic attitude toward life, and final succe.And what is Franklin's sprites?
The first one is he made progre everyday and he tried to do everything perfectly.He was a industrious worker, positive man and also a people held the sprite of never gave up.Ht think that man's talent was given by the Almighty God.What we should do is make full use of it.People should not get complacent, satisfied with the mechanical life.He still promoted the idea of restrain ourselves.People must be stick to the morals such as honest, fair-minded, behave the doctrine of mean, and one should be modest and loyal and steadfast.What's more, Franklin consider that people should learn the way of making friends with different kinds of people.Regard foes rightly, make proper use of you friend sources, learn how to
convert disadvantage to advantage.As an old Chinese saying goes: take the eence, discard the dro.Franklin had the craftsmanship of how to establish and preserve his public image.Franklin's sprites play a very important role in his succeful life.2.2Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence was iued in the year of 1776, and its theme is human rights.Declaration of Independence was the fountainhead of The Bill of Right and also have something to do with The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.One sentence in the Declaration of Independence said “We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, liberty and pursuits of Happine.” The sentence had already make clear that everyone is equal and they all have the right to chased his own life and happine.Declaration of Independence declares the want, the will and the hope of people.When in the course of human of events it becomes neceary to diolve the political bands which have connect them with another and to aume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident.That all men are created equal.That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happine.3.Conclusion: The connection between Benjamin Franklin's sprites and Declaration of Independence
Franklin is one of the four authors of Declaration of Independence.So it is no doubt that Franklin's sprites can be found in Declaration of Independence.American is a country that chase for freedom.Franklin's values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious is perform a very important role in Declaration of Independence.Why the Declaration of Independence have to contain these sprites? The reason that America was once a part of England.People felt desperate in that land so they came to America, and it was a free land.They all dreamed an dream which called the American dream.And that Franklin was a succeful display of America dream.The dream is that if you work hard enough then you can be the rich and became the upper cla in America.Fortunately Franklin became one of them and thanks to his other abilities he got the chance of writing Declaration of Independence.Declaration of Independence promotes the loyalty to law and moral.References:
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