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Benjamin Franklin Impact On Society

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Throughout history there are numerous amounts of men and women who have made an impact on our growing nation. These men and woman have helped shape our country and our way of life way before any of us living today were even thought of. They were the ones who fought through the hard times and took chances to make movements that one our freedom and let us live freely. One of these great leaders was a man by the name of Benjamin Franklin. Ben was born in colonial Boston on January, 17, 1706 which is where he would on be educated until he was the age of 10. Franklin was avid writer who was self-taught. He used his reading skills to help expand his vocabulary as well as form sentences in complete thought. With this love of writing he became an apprentice to his brother James for a printing company in Boston. Over the next couple of years he …show more content…

In 1724 Ben ran away from Philadelphia and traveled to England. No one really knows why he did this but when he returned to Philly in 1726 he opened up his very own printing shop that became very successful for him. His business profited by printing Government pamphlets, books, as well as currency. Through his success he would take control of his own newspaper that addressed the people with useful information known as the Pennsylvania Gazette. He Would also become the publisher of “Poor Richards Almanack” which was mostly comprised of sayings based around diligence. He also founded a social and self-improvement study group to help men called “Junto”. In 1730 Franklins success grew with all of these publications. He started the first fire department to counter react

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