Unit 4 Autobiography and Speeches

1. I think this unit gone be about the different beliefs of religion and different cultural beliefs.

2.  The differences between the Puritans and the Rationalists was that the puritans believed that god was the cause of every thing that happened, and they believed that humans had certain rites to follow. The rationalists believed that science could solve anything if wanted to be defined and the puritans didn't believed in that.


3. The purpose of the writing of what he had written was to try and make things little  better and try and make things right by his point of view. Hes using reasoning instead of emotions by trying to make a list of ideas that people would agree to go by or follow. In the Equiano story he was trying to make people feel sorry for him and what he was going threw and Benjamin was trying set things that people might use or should go bye like Equiano was talking about all the pain and hard times and franklin was setting ideas for example:

These Names of Virtues with their Precepts were

1 . Temperance.
Eat not to Dullness
Drink not to Elevation.

2. Silence.
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself.
Avoid trifling Conversation.

3. Order.
Let all your Things have their Places.
Let each Part of your Business have its Time.

4. Resolution.
Resolve to perform what you ought.
Perform without fail what you resolve.

5. Frugality.
Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself:
i.e. Waste nothing.

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 5.  "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN-

* The reason why this one stuck with me is because it basically what is happening today in real life an its absolutely true

6. *What he is trying to persue us to do is take charge and fight before we get attacked first.

    *his first example of his arguement is "They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary."

     * his second example of his argument is " Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us".