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What can be concluded about the life of Benjamin Franklin?
(A)His life was extremely important to the world.
(B)He tried to live a moral, efficient lifestyle.
(C)It was short-lived because he spent so much time writing.
(D)As an author, he was only concerned with himself.
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Okay see reading shmoop er's Another fine paragraph for you
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here's the question What can be concluded about the life
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of ben franklin And autobiography can sometimes for either greatest
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insight into history because an account of a person written
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by that person right autobiography ben franklin wrote an autobiography
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and use it as a means to convey the life
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a common man to the american public He hoped that
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his own triumphs and failures would inspire others to lead
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moral efficient lives It's also a way for franklin teo
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leave himself in literature However he died for he could
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finish writing the entire book leaving his legacy with a
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few of his stories untold So let's think about this
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Well we'll let you in on a little secret here
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Franklin wasn't always the moral upright guy he wanted to
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be let's put it this way Yeah he swiped right
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Ah lot on tinder He tried to be moral inefficient
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He wrote down the story about his quest to be
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a perfect person even though he didn't really achieve it
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Yeah kind of marketed himself nicely in that autobiography So
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in the text here right answer is he tried to
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live a moral efficient lifestyle That's what the text tells
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you if you know too much about franklin like you've
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actually read this Book and then read the criticism of
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it by historians Well that would probably leave you down
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the wrong path Nowhere in the text here does it
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state that his life was an extremely important one to
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the world though it's easy to assume it wass but
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we can't make that inference right can't make assumptions We
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only used what state in the passage that's kind of
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what his passengers testing you on his life span isn't
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discussed in the passage either and in fact it was
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actually pretty long when he lived to eighty something Well
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one could argue that writing an autobiography can be a
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little self indulgent with the author doesn't paint Franklin is
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especially vein or ego centric so that's it it's b
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for shim upped and bend and let's go discover more 00:01:49.085 --> [endTime] lightning
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