... during his youth. He was responsible for organizing the first lending library and the first volunteer fire company. Franklin developed many characteristics during his youth that helped him become a marvelous political leader. He was a highly social person with very strong opinions that produced rewarding results for our nation. Benjamin Franklin had a very strong belief that America had to separate itself ... establish the University of Pennsylvania. Among other accomplishments during his reign, Franklin was elected to the Second Continental Congress and proposed the first Articles of C...

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... Anne Bradstreet's time. The general idea was that women were meant to stay home and care for the needs of their children and husband. They had no place in the political sphere, and they need only be educated enough to read the Bible. Women were less scholarly then men so they had no business writing. These beliefs surrounded her writing and ... story. It is in setting up this foundation that Whitman showed resistance. He resisted and encouraged others to resist binary thinking. In the transparent eye of Whitman there were no boundaries between good and bad, ugly and beautiful, or simple...

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... THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. The AMERICAN ROMANTICISM PERIOD existed from 1783-1886. The romantic sensibility was hard to define because it was a movement that went beyond national, chronological, and artistic boundaries. It had a strong influence on literature, music, and painting. For romantics, the imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings, and nature were of greater value than reason, logic, planning, and cultivation. Influenced writers ... TRANSCENDENTALISM PERIOD existed from 1803-1882. The transcendentalists, writers of this period, optimistically believed in human perfec...

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