Benjamin Franklin And John Winthrop

One reason for the Colonial Americans’ growth in faith is the fact the era was abundant with religious figures who strove to lead people to God and created guidelines for them to live by. The people of Colonial America were blessed to abide in an “enchanted world of wonders.” These wonders were no doubt brought on by the hand of God, and the recognition of this fact caused new religious leaders to rise up and help people focus on living Godly lives despite the secular distractions that they were presented with. One Puritan leader, John Winthrop, stated, “That which the most in their Churches maintain as a truth in profession only, we must bring into familiar and constant practice, as in this duty of love we must love brotherly without dissimulation, we must love one another with a pure heart fervently we must bear one another’s burdens…” Winthrop not only wanted each individual person to maintain a stronger focus on faith in daily life, he also wanted them to use their faith to unite together, and his Model of Christian Charity showed the people how to accomplish that. Many people tried to abide by these teachings and pass them onto their children before they made their own way in the changing, confusing world because many parents feared their children would “Fall un’wares in Fowler’s snare.”

Introduction. The new boundaries and opportunities in the seventeenth century grew and challenged an idea of religious liberty. The lifestyle of the first colonists in the New England was heavily influenced by religion and church. Settlers considered that success of social life depends on the obedience to God’s will. The governor John Winthrop maintained and developed this idea. With a help of his Speech to the Massachusetts General Court in 1645, he summed up and explained an important idea of liberty. Winthrop did not only define a blessed way for a better life of the community but also clarified the role of citizens through the analogy of women’s position in the society. His concept of natural and moral liberty turned up to be suitable and clear for the settlers. With a help of well-built speech, Winthrop emphasized and explained correlation among society, authority, and God in the New World.

Benjamin Franklin and Olaudah Equiano lived during the same time period. Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the Untied States, and his commitment to making his country better was remarkable. Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography from 1771- 1791. Franklin passed away before he was able to see his autobiography published in 1791. Olaudah Equiano was a young boy when he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. He was forced to work on naval vessels and on plantations in Virginia. Equiano published his interesting narrative in 1789. Franklin writes about his life as a key figure of American civilization. Equiano writes about his life as a slave and abolitionist against slavery. The autobiographies of Ben Franklin and Olaudah

While Patrick Henry and Benjamin Franklin both believed in patriotism and realism they both differed in the politics. They both wanted patriotism and wisdom, but one wanted a whole new government and one wanted the same government, but wanted to make it better for the people and their enemies.

Overall, I thought the film provided a unique perspective on the race to discovering the structure of DNA. Out of the many films I had watched on this topic, there were few that focused on the significance of Rosalind’s contribution. This film portrayed how Watson and Crick unfairly took information and credit from Franklin. After their study was put to a halt, Watson and Crick bounced back from their slump all thanks to Franklin’s diffraction image. Frankly speaking, Franklin was a spy. He snuck into a fairly discrete conference where Rosalind presented her findings. Additionally, he admitted to snooping around her office when she was not there. The sad part was that she unfortunately passed away before having the chance to see the impact

As F. Scott Fitzgerald states, “It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of...” Benjamin Franklin and John Woolman, both reflective, conscious thinkers of their time, embody this quote as they regularly pursued self-awareness and endeavoured to achieve their own valued principles. The similar themes of hyperawareness of morals and vanity, the impression of religion, wealth, and inner-outer consciousness pronounced by these two figures’ autobiography and journal are striking and, as well as the contrasting elements, merit thorough examination and explanation.

During revolutionary America, Benjamin Franklin, Olaudah Equiano, and Phillis Wheatley all wrote autobiographical works that framed their identities and explored new ideas taking form through the Great Awakening and Enlightenment. Equiano and Wheatley wrote in support of abolition and used their works to exemplify that, while Franklin focused on the “American dream” and how he was able to achieve it. Despite these differences, all three were quick to mention religion in America and the Christian hypocrisy associated with it.

Billions of people all over the nation and world have heard of the ideal American vision to be defined as a perfect set of rules and regulations that provide the ideal conditions for living life. Though many people to this day may still argue their understanding of these idealistic views, there is an ideniable truth that it was two most influential figures in history from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Benjamin Franklin and John Winthrop, who helped shape this vision through their strong and very different opinionated perspectives. God’ role and form of government, social classes gradation, nature and moral laws, individualism or collectivism and virtues of success are all important aspects that have helped shape the American vision, in which also the opinions of Franklin and Winthrop stand divided between the leaders. Franklin emphasized the importance of the science and reason, which explains the structure of the world its affect of life on every nation. Winthrop presented his “a City on a hill” model, where everything depends on God’s will.” (The Puritan Vision Altered, John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”, 1630, pp. 6-7). Unlike Franklin’s democracy and liberty, he believed in state of brotherhood. However, Winthrop shares Franklins’ nature norms in relationship between people, but Winthrop also builds his vision

Franklin, himself climbed the ranks society “having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which [he] was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world” (Franklin 27). He had been raised by a humble middle class family, not being promised much wealth or land, forcing him to make a name for himself. Franklin, a man of the enlightenment,

John Winthrop and John Adams and their respective works were heavily influenced by their times. Winthrop was a devout Puritan Christian that was escaping a persecuting king in the early to mid-seventeenth century. As a learned and religious man, he came to be the leader of this puritan sect that was to establish a society unlike any other, free from religious corruption that his fellow people saw in the Church of England, that would be a model community much like the “Citty upon a Hill” described in the bible. On the other hand, John Adams experienced the “tyranny” of the British monarchy in a contrasting way. This era was marked with worsened conditions for American colonists in terms of economic and social taxations. Their literary

Which is to do fairly and to love and forgive. The puritans fulfill this task by “... delight in each other; make others’ conditions our own;rejoice together,mourn together,labor suffer together,as members of the same body. ”(winthrop 247). Winthrop is preaching to suffer with one another by doing the same amount of work,to forgive one another for what they were put through,and to love the work they all do for one another because they all have the same goal in the end. The goal to achieve the acceptance of god and make the City On The Hill.

“A Model of Christian Charity” is a sermon written in 1630 by John Winthrop, a Puritan leader. “The Way to Wealth” is an essay written in 1758 by Benjamin Franklin. Winthrop gives his sermon on the Arbella while its members are sailing for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the New World. Franklin’s essay consists of proverbs and advice given throughout his yearly almanac titled “Poor Richard’s Almanack”. Both texts discuss the idea of success and how one can attain it.

What is the ideal mode of life? Society has the difficult decision between valuing the individual or the community as a whole more. Will society benefit more by focusing on the individual perfecting himself or herself and staying true to who they are, or will we benefit more by conforming to the ways of the community? This question has been asked for multiple years and several different answers have been given. Three American writers who have discussed this topic are Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Winthrop, and Benjamin Franklin. Each author has a different view over this subject. Emerson believes someone should not conform to his or her society, while Winthrop believes conformity is what will benefit society; Franklin on the other hand believes in a mix of both. Between all three, Franklin’s idea of a fusion between Emerson’s and Winthrop’s ideal modes of life is the proper balance to create a efficient and affective society.

Winthrop’s vision of a prosperous Christian community was defined by several key characteristics, given by Winthrop himself. Winthrop states “…so this great King will have many stewards, counting Himself more honored in dispensing His gifts to man by man, than if He did it by His own immediate hands” (166). Winthrop believes that it is the duty of the community to directly practice Christian doctrine and values. It is through this direct action that God will bring about prosperity to the population. Winthrop emphasizes in particular the need to be charitable,

Throughout literature, one is introduced to many characters, and there is always a reason that they are mentioned, whether it be the characters’ relationship to a certain person or just the person in general. In The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, he introduces the reader to many different characters within the first part of the book. There are three specific characters that really catch the eye, based off the information one is given, while reading. James Ralph, James Franklin and Samuel Keimer are all very important to Benjamin Franklin in many different ways. These characters show that people usually surround themselves with people that are similar to them and that one’s friends help shape their character. James Ralph was a person