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An 8-page paper on The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin detailing how the two used mistakes in their own personal lives and those of others as a chance for growth and development.
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by using their intellect: Franklin by writing and innovating, Douglass by writing and speechmaking. Both men made many mistakes on their way to national recognition and both used the lessons
they learned by their own mistakes and those of others to fashion a better way of living and doing things for themselves. They were able to use their discoveries to
grow themselves personally and also, through their writing and works, to help others to benefit from those discoveries. Some of the discoveries were small, quirks of human nature or life
in general that made life easier for them and gave them rules by which to live; some were of a monumental nature that shook the very edifice of this country
and shaped the lives of themselves and their countrymen in a most profound fashion. Benjamin Franklin, born in Boston in 1706, did not suffer the privations of Douglass growing up
as a slave, but he did find himself without means early on. The many lessons he learned in life, he was pleased to pass on to the readers of his
newspapers, his many pamphlets, and ultimately, his autobiography. It offers an insight into the little nuances that most of us allow to pass by the wayside, but which he used
to construct a code for living that would be world-renowned. One of his favorite stories concerned a formative period in his childhood when
he became the leader of the other boys near his home. There was a salt-water marsh on the edge of a millpond where the boys fished, but it had been
reduced to a quagmire by their trampling. Franklin announced that they should build a wharf from which to fish, and he and his playmates appropriated some rocks that they found
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