Compare And Contrast Frederick Douglass And Benjamin Franklin

Iron Thunder By Avi Tom Carroll is a thirteen year old boy from Brooklyn. He lost his father in the Civil War. Now he live with him mother. His mother is becoming old and can’t take care of the family anymore. So Tom decides to find a job.

In the movie Simon Birch, we learn many aspects from the main character relating to our SPIES unit. The Main character Simon Birch was born the smallest baby of Grapeville in recorded history. When he was born, the doctors believed Simon would only be alive for days or a weeks at maximum, because of a undersized heart. Mr and Mrs. Birch didn’t care for Simon and carried on in their normal daily lives. Believing their son would pass away.

Oakes reminds the reader of how much Lincoln and Douglass originally shared. Lincoln and Douglass were self-made, self-educated, and ambitious, and each rose to success from humble backgrounds. Douglass, of course, was an escaped slave. Douglass certainly and Lincoln most likely detested slavery from his youngest days. But Lincoln from his young manhood was a consummate politician devoted to compromise, consensus-building, moderation and indirection.

The President Nobody Remembers John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the only president born on independence day. As a young boy, Coolidge grew up in a town of only 1,699 people. His father was a hardworking man, who owned a general store in the small town and taught Coolidge how to be a businessman. Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president who started off with a popular reputation, however, with the emergence of the Great Depression during his tenor, the popular opinion of him soon became negative. Coolidge was accused of several scandalous actions that had a long term effect, not only on the United States, but on the integrity of his personal reputation.

In the novel Schooled, by Gordan Korman , the main character Capricorn Anderson was a thirteen year old boy that has never experienced the real world and who grew up on a hippie commune with only his grandmother, Rain. After Rain was hospitalized, Capricorn went from being home schooled his entire life to Claverage Middle School. This was an experience that changed his whole life because he didn’t know how to act around other kids. Capricorn gets bullied because he dresses like a hippie from the 1960’s and has no common knowledge of the current society. Capricorn gets elected class president because his classmates think it will be a hilarious joke and will be made a fool.

They change start off positive and negative, seeing how Grant’s predecessor, Matthew Antoine leaves a negative impact on Grant based on the way the of his efforts to help his students but they all still suffered later in life (Gaines, ?). Grant and Jefferson find it hard to have a positive outlook on their outcomes when they are looked down upon. As Jefferson slowly proves that he going to die a man, Grant still retains his negative look on life he lives and with his relationships on those around him. He does not succumb to negative actions but does not provide a positive impact to his

The Segregation Crooks faces Isn’t nearly as a harsh as it would be in Jackson or Birmingham However, The isolation is ten times worse. Crooks pushes others away just as much as others push him away this is because he was taught this as a child that, he must relate with his own ‘kind’ though there isn’t another black family for miles. Crooks has a very lonely life because he doesn’t have any person that can completely understand what he feels. He can prattle on to people like lennie all he wants but it doesn’t satisfy him

In Hayden 's poem, "Those Winter Sundays," the speaker is haunted by guilt for all the years he never thanked his father. The picture of the speaker 's father up every morning in the "blueblack cold" (869) on his only day off sends a powerful message. Everything the father did was done to make his son 's life a little bit easier. It is sad that "no one ever thanked him" and his son "spoke indifferently to him" (870), and even with the fathers best efforts, his home was still consumed with "chronic angers" (870). No matter how much the father did, the son never noticed his efforts.

Jeannette Walls shows that homeless people are marginalized as uneducated in The Glass Castle. “Dad would get a job as an electrician or engineer in a gypsum or copper mine. Mom liked to say that Dad could talk a blue streak, spinning tales of jobs he’d never had and college degrees he’d never earned” (Walls 19). For the most part, Jeannette’s dad, Rex Walls, was the money maker of the house. Wherever they moved to, he would find a job to do, but he could never keep his jobs for long periods of time.

Even though they were both men from above and made their ways up, Franklin’s way up was much tougher than Benjamin’s. Furthermore, during Benjamin Franklin lifetime first president had always someone to help him out. Douglass used education to get out from the mud where he was born in and Benjamin got educated to become successful. Taking everything into consideration, both Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass are self-made men. They outlived hard times and literally went out of the mud.

Nick McFaden Dr. Foster History 121-24 September 17, 2015 Thomas Paine Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk, Great Britain. He was the son of a Quaker corset maker and an Anglican mother. Paine received very little education, however he was literate. He began to work with his father at the age of 13, and later began working as an excise officer. Unfortunately, Paine did not excel in this position and was even fired multiple times.

Life of a Slave Slaves in the pre-Civil War time, their lives wasn 't theirs. A slave’s life was hard and they barely had any fun. They had numerous things to be afraid of and the Southern states had a barely enough reason that most likely wouldn 't fly by in this generation to justify that slavery was a right thing to do. A slave always had to work that they had to do. So their lives was very harsh and rough.

He didn’t go to high school or college his dad needed his help with stuff so he pulled him out of elementary. He was already smart and knew how to read & write. His brother miss treated him. His brother was mean & wanted everything to go his way Ben franklin couldn’t take it any more so he ran away. Benjamin Franklin, contributions were a working life for his brother who was a printer and newspaper publisher in