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Tyce Miller Miss. Depanfilis English CP 10/5/11 Benjamin Franklin was a very smart and curious man. He had a lot to do with the whole world. First of all he is the one who founded electricity from being curious. Being curious must be good because one man changed the whole world from flying a kite in the sky with a key tied to the string and somehow he got lucky and discovered electricity! When he wanted to discover the electrical force that comes from the lightening and he wanted to see how it would pass through metal so he took a key and also he took a kite to get it up near the lightening. Then the lightning struck the key and he discovered electricity. So this is how Ben Franklin discovered electricity and this is not the only thing he did to change the world.

A quote that was said from Benjamin Franklin was "The good men may do separately is small compared with what they may do collectively." This is saying that working together can be more progressive than trying to do everything yourself. Working together is better than working by yourself because there are many things that you could do wrong but if you worked with a group your could have your partners pick up your problems and help you fix them so you can become better and smarter. A example of this essay is that there is no I in TEAM. There is a football team that has many very talented athletes but if they don’t work together they will not get far at all. But, if they work together then they can go very far in the league and open many people’s eyes and change their lives. Also they team will be remember for doing something very incredible and eye opening so that people will always be talking about the team. For example last year at Port Allegany High School at the beginning of the season we had a couple very talented players but at the first couple of games they wanted the ball every play and they wanted to show that they were the best. But after every game they came up short and loosing there game. So halfway through the season they changed their ways and played as the team and made it all the way to the D-9 Championships. So this is what Benjamin Franklin meant from his quote and how it would affect everybody’s lives by working together.

Benjamin Franklin has done a lot in his life. He affects our lives every day from what we do. If we didn’t have electricity we wouldn’t have lights, computers, and just about everything we have now. We would have to still be going by candle light unless somehow someone else found electricity from being curious like Ben was. This is not the only saying Ben has said that we have noticed. He has also given many more that we have noticed and wrote about. Most of his sayings have more than one meaning and could inspire many young people. This is what Ben Franklin meant from his line “The good men may do separately is small compared with what they may do collectively."

Autumn Movement By Carl Sandburg

I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.

The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go, not one lasts.

This poem is an example of Imagery. It is imagery because it helps you imagine the time of year and the things changes. This is why it is a example of imagery.

Country Fair By Charles Simic

If you didn't see the six-legged dog, It doesn't matter. We did, and he mostly lay in the corner. As for the extra legs,

One got used to them quickly And thought of other things. Like, what a cold, dark night To be out at the fair.

Then the keeper threw a stick And the dog went after it On four legs, the other two flapping behind, Which made one girl shriek with laughter.

She was drunk and so was the man Who kept kissing her neck. The dog got the stick and looked back at us. And that was the whole show

This poem is another example of Imagery. It shows imagery when it is talking about the six legged dog just sitting in the corner and when it retreived the stick after the owner threw it. This is why it shows imagery.

Fishing in Winter Ralph Burns

A man staring at a small lake sees His father cast light line out over The willows. He's forgotten his Father has been dead for two years And the lake is where a blue fog Rolls, and the sky could be, if it Were black or blue or white, The backdrop of all attention.

He wades out to join the father, Following where the good strikes Seem to lead. It's cold. The shape Breath takes on a cold day is like Anything else--a rise on a small lake, The Oklahoma hills, blue scrub-- A shape already inside a shape, Two songs, two breaths on the water.

This poem shows imagery as well. It shows it by explaining how the lake looks in the winter and his father standing in the water. This is why it shows imagery.