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    Cell Biologist Essay Robert hooke grow up in the town of freshwater. Robert parents was john hooke and cecily hooke who served as a curate for a local church. Hooke was a quick learner he was interested in painting and making mechanical toys. After hooks father died in 1648 hooke at the age 13 hooke was sent to london to apprentice under painter peter lely. He study under peter for a very short time. After leaving peter he instead study at london westminster school. Then in 1653 he enrolled in

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    The document I found was “A Proposition for the Present Peace and Future Government of the British Colonies in North America”, published in 1775. This proposition was written by a man in London and meant to be distributed among the citizens of Britain. The writer’s hope was if the document was well received by the public it would be more favorably received by the government. The proposition first explains the situation in America, and the hostility the colonists feel towards the British government

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    scientist and inventor. Benjamin Franklin was born into a family of thirteen children in Boston, Massachusetts at the turn of the seventeenth century. Franklin rose from a lowly candle maker to a well-respected scientist and entrepreneur. Both contributed greatly to our understanding of the way the world works and how we can use it to our advantage. While both may be remembered for similar things, their lives were different every step of the way. Each Carver and Franklin had a different set of struggles

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    Miles Franklin applies the use of alliteration and repetition to the three passages selected, as way of uncovering the true nature which lies within Franklin’s work in the semi auto biography of ‘My Brilliant Career’. Through-out all three passages Franklin uses the repetition of Sybylla’s soliloquy in thinking of her- self. The start of sentences from passage one include ‘I knew’, ‘I possessed’, ‘I revelled’ and ‘I never’ are just some example of the repetition of Franklin’s which also are in view

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    discovering the structure of DNA herself, Rosalind Franklin deserved to be a co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Prize in Medicine for elucidating the structure of DNA in such a way that the mechanism for genetic replication was revealed. The x-ray, or photograph that James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins used, and was extremely viable in all three of their research, was a direct result of work carried out by Rosalind Franklin while at King’s College in London. Instead, the three

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    FT/IMG Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American Renaissance man, knowledgeable on a variety of subjects and active in many careers throughout his lifetime. Famous for his involvement in writing of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, as well as for his experiments with lightning, Franklin's lesser known accomplishments include work as a writer, a publisher, and a businessman. Benjamin Franklin was born January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts, the fifteenth child and

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    Many of the English men came to north America because of religious freedom and from where they were at, at first they wanted to have some part of the “New World” that was in the making . In the “Old World” were they had been living in, they were forced to believe in whatever it was they wanted them to. All the English men wanted was to start a new life, and live it the way they wanted to live their own personal lives. England started its colonies in America to increase national power and used

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    Benjamin Franklin is a famous and religious American legend. He is a successful printer, scientist, author and father. He is a religious man who believes doing good to humans is a way to please God. He wanted to live without fault and in his quest for attaining moral perfection; he developed a personal improvement goal to achieve. Initially he wrote down twelve virtues with their precepts but later added one more after considering the advice from his friend. Here is the list, temperance, silence

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    While some men merely acknowledged the ideas of the Enlightenment Era, there were those who would implement the new form of ideology into breaking away from a tyrant and form their own republic. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were a few men who absorbed the philosophy from Old Europe and tweaked it so it would better serve the colonies. For example, the Stamp Act was one of many instances where British Parliament abused their power of the colonies and when John

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    Until reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, I had never really given much thought as to how Benjamin Franklin attained such success. Among Franklins numerous admirable traits, that no doubt led to his greatness, the specific character trait that kept coming to mind as I read his autobiography, was his tenacity.Dictionary.com defines tenacious as:” persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired”. Benjamin Franklin was tenacious in all aspects of his life especially

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