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svp [43]
2 years ago
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In a short paragraph, explain the role of literacy in the social mobility of Benjamin Franklin.

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2 answers:
Tresset [83]2 years ago
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), born in Boston, left school at the age of ten to assist his father. Franklin was self-taught intellectual, reading Xenophon, Plutarch, Bunyan, Locke, etc., which gave him the social mobility working in a printing shop, and later having his own printing shop. Franklin had a famous publication called "Poor Richard's Almanack", he made discoveries in the science of electrostatics and he was a member of the Federal Constitutional Convention. Thanks to literacy, Franklin became an accomplished and important man in the history of the United States.

FromTheMoon [43]2 years ago
4 0

He is able to use his knowledge to impress others? I believe that is the answer.

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