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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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