<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Benjamin Franklin Group at eNotes</title>
    <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/group</link>
    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Benjamin Franklin Group at eNotes.</description>
    <lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:27:34</lastBuildDate>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[how can we compare and contrast the themes of The Autobiography by...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/how-can-we-compare-contrast-themes-autobiography-106461</link>
        <description><![CDATA[how can we compare and contrast the themes of The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin and huswifery by Edward Taylor?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/how-can-we-compare-contrast-themes-autobiography-106461</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:27:34 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[This is from "Romeo and Juliet."  In Act II, the Nurse and her man,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/benjamin-franklin-said-poor-richards-almanac-three-96599</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is from "Romeo and Juliet."  In Act II, the Nurse and her man, Peter, arrive at a street in Verona where Mercutio first approaches her with many puns and humorous remarks.  Then, Romeo appears, telling her of the plan for Juliet and him to be married at Friar Lawrence's church.  Romeo wishes to send Juliet the wedding plans via the Nurse, the young lovers' messenger.  As he speaks with the Nurse, she warns Romeo to be...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/benjamin-franklin-said-poor-richards-almanac-three-96599</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:12:37 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin wrote in Poor Richard’s Almanac "Three may keep a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/benjamin-franklin-said-poor-richards-almanac-three-96599</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin wrote in Poor Richard’s Almanac "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."  ]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/benjamin-franklin-said-poor-richards-almanac-three-96599</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:33:40 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[what is the tone of franklin's autobiography? i really hope someone...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-tone-franklins-autobiography-really-hope-95157</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what is the tone of franklin's autobiography? i really hope someone would be able to assist me...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-tone-franklins-autobiography-really-hope-95157</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:52:41 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[In "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One,"...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-literal-also-figurative-meaning-benjamin-89075</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One," Benjamin Franklin literally indicates those areas that will make great empires into small ones.  Franklin offers advice to the reader concerning the effective ruling of a large territory, from taking care to secure the borders of a great empire to allowing the different parts of the empire a degree of freedom.  Franklin addresses his text to a minister who presumably wants to...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-literal-also-figurative-meaning-benjamin-89075</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:09:22 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[What is the literal and also the figurative meaning of Benjamin...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-literal-also-figurative-meaning-benjamin-89075</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the literal and also the figurative meaning of Benjamin Franklin's "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One"?
 ]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-literal-also-figurative-meaning-benjamin-89075</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:58:43 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[After a heated quarrel with his brother, Benjamin Franklin relates in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/please-help-85563</link>
        <description><![CDATA[After a heated quarrel with his brother, Benjamin Franklin relates in his "Autobiography" that he went to sea because he could not find work in the printing business of which his brother was a part.  While at sea, Franklin rescues a drunken Dutchman who has fallen overboard, and while on shore Franklin shares his bread with a poor woman and her children even though he himself has little money.  Exhausted, he stops in a Quaker meetinghouse...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/please-help-85563</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 10:40:23 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[Can someone explain the climax of Benjamin's Franklin's "Autobiography"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/please-help-85563</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Can someone explain the climax of Benjamin's Franklin's "Autobiography"?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/please-help-85563</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 09:29:07 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[i want come to the america or eourope how to make visa?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/want-come-america-eourope-how-make-visa-81617</link>
        <description><![CDATA[i want come to the america or eourope how to make visa?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/want-come-america-eourope-how-make-visa-81617</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 2 May 2009 12:52:24 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[ When he arrived in Philadelphia, he was very poor, having sold some of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-was-franklins-condition-life-when-he-arrived-65647</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ When he arrived in Philadelphia, he was very poor, having sold some of his precious books to get the money for the journey. Arriving in Philadephia, he soon began to regret leaving home.  He had very little money, was exhausted and starving, he looked like a vagrant, and was approached as a possible runnaway servant because he was so dirty.
He held two jobs at once, working for both William Bradford, a printer and at Keimer's Printing...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-was-franklins-condition-life-when-he-arrived-65647</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:35:12 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[What was Franklin's condition in life when he arrived in Philadephia?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-was-franklins-condition-life-when-he-arrived-65647</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What was Franklin's condition in life when he arrived in Philadephia?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/what-was-franklins-condition-life-when-he-arrived-65647</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:04:12 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
    <item>
        <title><![CDATA[Why the logic and emotion desplayued by Franklin and Paine would lead...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/why-logic-emotion-desplayued-by-franklin-paine-54497</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why the logic and emotion desplayued by Franklin and Paine would lead them to similar or diffeent opinions regarding possible war with Britain]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/benjamin-franklin/q-and-a/why-logic-emotion-desplayued-by-franklin-paine-54497</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:02:42 PST</pubDate>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>