Part one of term paper
was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. Since this was on a Sunday, his father had him immediately baptized, to avoid any superstitious curse on him. Franklin was the 15th of 17 children. When he was a boy, Franklin liked to write his name in a fancy manner. But one day an old man who was visiting them saw the elaborate signa ...

Part two of term paper
... At age 12, he started as an apprentice at his half-brother's printing shop. While working there, Ben wrote some poems that his brother printed and sold. Ben educated himself by reading the classic authors of his time. He also studied books on arithmetic, navigation, and grammar. He loved a set of papers by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele called the "Spectator" and would read the essays it contained and rewrite them in his own style. He found his writing style by comparing the original ...