7 Great Virtues

The Five Precepts in the Context of The Eightfold Path Both 'The Five Precepts' and 'The Eightfold Path' are significant elements of the Buddhist religion. The precepts act as a guide for the average everyday lay Buddhist on how to create the least amount of karmic energy possible. It by no means is the way directly to reaching Nirvana. The Eightfold Path however, is known as "the way.

The different effects that benjamin franklin had on the constitution. The way he pulled it around and made it what it is. Then the event that he had follow. Also the reason why he didn’t sign the constitution

“Though I am still of opinion that it, was a practicable scheme, and might have been useful, by forming a good number of citizens: and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking as I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes and accomplish great affairs among mankind (pg. 106).” Benjamin Franklin is an archetypal American because everybody wants to be just like him. He wrote this book to show the right way to become the perfect American. Also, he wrote this autobiography to explain to his son and to other people about how to be the ideal American. Benjamin Franklin became a deism because it helped him become more open-minded. A deism is a person that believes that god created the

Early in Benjamin Franklins life, he faced a big challenge that led him to make choices to shape up his influencing character. It shows us that he had to work hard from an early age. This is a big challenge for him because he had to work from an early age along with becoming better academically. Growing up in a big family with so many siblings, he had to take care of himself. His father Josiah worked in a soap factory, along with making candles. Benjamin worked with his father until he was twelve years old, until he started to despise working with his father which made his father look for alternative jobs. Knowing Benjamin and his interest in education and books, his father suggested he worked for his older bother James, who was a printer.

Honor, Courage, and Commitment are three core values that has changed me to become a better citizen. First of all, I follow the Navy core values, Honor Courage, and Commitment, outside of JROTC. Like; Being honorable, and having respect for others, treating everyone the same, no one is different and making hard decisions through my JROTC life. As a cadet, I learn from my mistakes. I see the world differently from others. I've noticed I always push myself to do better and I've been thinking about my life after high school, and who I want to become. JROTC is just a small step. When I first joined JROTC, I didn't expect such a dramatic change. Oh no, I didn't.

The great diversion for every mistake America or an American has made is the main use of this ideal. Instead of acknowledging the bad things that they have done, Americans push their poor choices to the side and pretend that they do not know what they have done. Instead, they focus on the small good things they have done and do not even try to right their wrongs. Using American exceptionalism as an excuse takes away guilt helps hide flaws and make people feel better about themselves. From “The Madness of Donald Trump” Matt Taibbi writes “America, land of the mad pig president. Shove that up your exceptionalism” (Taibbi). Not only does he show both how insane and comical America is, he

History suggests that the overwhelming majority of human beings have had to choose between either tyranny or anarchy

Benjamin Franklin presented the “Albany Plan” in an effort to help the colonies win the war. This plan suggested the unification of the colonies.

The Three-Fifths Compromise makes a statement that seems simple enough. Three in every five slaves will be counted in the population of any state when counting for votes in Congress. This simple compromise was more important than it seemed at first glance, though. The issues motivating it could have left the country in shambles if not corralled, and the Three-Fifths Compromise did just that. A few papers lifted this nation back of from the brink of self-destruction, even if it was an impermanent solution.

The three most important qualities to uphold civilization are organization, a respected and powerful leader, and good role models.

I sincerely believe that if any other man had given this same speech that it would not have impacted America so greatly. He managed to distil in the people a sense of pride in the constitution that remains today. I quote him saying, “I doubt whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution.” This was one of the first building blocks that led to modern American’s sense of nationalism. He also states, “In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults…” This helped citizens understand that he didn’t believe that the Constitution was perfect, which was a precedent for amendments to be added, and many were. Overall, Benjamin Franklin was a very influential man of the time and a lot of people wanted to listen to what he had to say. He helped set up the U.S on the track that our government would take, especially regarding the Constitution.

14. The Compromise of 1790 illustrates how the leaders of the revolutionary era made compromises despite disagreement in order to avoid crisis that the nation may face so that the nation could run smoothly. The compromise encouraged cooperation of different groups.

Patrick Henry and Benjamin Franklin are both politicians who had strong impacts on citizens in American’s society. They made agreements with the economy and always played their parts. In Patrick Henry’s Speech in the Virginia Convention and Benjamin Franklin’s Speech at the Constitutional Convention, both Henry and Franklin use rhetorical questions, parallelism, and ethos to persuade their audience to look at the situation from their point of view.

The image and the values promoted in Franklin's autobiography would later come to be regarded as essential American virtues: determination, industriousness, and self-sufficiency. It was purportedly these virtues which led to his great practical accomplishments in publishing, politics, and science. In a sense, Franklin's autobiography was the first exposition of the now-famous American Dream.

Crying and laughing, people experience many different emotions during different stages of their life. Sometimes they would find themselves dissatisfied almost every single moment when they assume that the world is not fulfilling their desire, in other words, their expectations on how the world supposes to be. Dan, an ordinary college student from the story Way of the Peaceful Warrior written by Dan Millman, faces the same obstacle as many others do. Although he has lived a pleased and content life, passion suddenly disappears from him. Such depression stops when he meets Socrates, an old man at the gas station, and learns inspirational lessons which connect to the Four Noble Truths from Socrates. The lessons promote great changes in Dan’s