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A 4 page essay that discusses the influence of writers Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin on forging the American character. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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New World. In order for this to change, America had to be invented. In other words, the colonials had to forge a new cultural consciousness, inventing what it meant
to be "American," in order to see themselves as distinct from Englishmen still living in Europe. There were numerous writers who contributed to the emerging national consciousness that became
evident in the first half of the eighteenth century, but two of the most prominent were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. It is difficult to overestimate the huge influence
that Benjamin Franklin exerted towards the creation of America. As Walter Isaacson points out in this biography of Franklin, he was one of the first leaders to define himself as
an "American," as he argued that unity between the various colonies was essential long before the advent of the American Revolution (Rider, 2004). Inventor, innovator, public leader, and world renowned
scientist, during the Revolutionary War era, Franklin represented the emerging nation, the United States of America, to the rest of the world, as he negotiated with a treaty with France
that brought them into the war effort as allies. Franklin has been variously described as "the first American, the father of all the Yankees, the multiple America" (Sanford, 1955,
p. v). Through Franklins writing, such as the homey advice of Poor Richards Almanac and also through his autobiography--through his leadership and his accomplishments, such as starting the first lending
library and the first fire department and his experiments with electricity -Franklin offered a new paradigm, on which the American public could base their conceptualization of the national character. Franklin
helped to shape how Americans saw themselves, that is, as a free-thinking, self-reliant, practical and pragmatic people. In the introduction to his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin gives his reasons for
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