Description of Prince Charles Master II's thesis.
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April 11, 2018. Reedited on April 25, 2018.
On Febuary 02, 2015 Prince Charles has defended his Master II's thesis in Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey, where he studied from the first year of university to the Master II he presented that memorable day. Prince Charles studied in the English Department at the Faculty of Letter and Human Sciences of this university.
A picture scanning of Prince Charles student card while doing his Master I (Maitrise). The academic year being 2010-2011.
A picture scanning of Prince Charles student card while doing his Master I (Maitrise). This another angle of the card.
But Prince Charles did his Master II between 2012-2015 during which I was regularly registered with the same student number of 11530.
Prince Charles last Nigerien identity card.
As he presented his Master I (Maitrise in French) on a theme relevant to Great Britain with the theme of 'Political Ambition in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Macbeth', he decided to choose a theme relevant to America. I come up with the topic of ' The Faces of American Dream in Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson'.
The cover of my Master II.
The choice of this topic is guided my desire to study how our British culture and values have been at the origin of America powerfulness. The two writers and figures I choose on all angles have been the founding fathers of American economic and political greatness, and both are from recent British origin then, to speak of Benjamin Franklin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson has never hidden being inspired in his literary and philosophical creations by the British (English) writer, Thomas Carlyl. Moreover, in his writting he wrote how his visit of England has changed his vision of the world. It is strong of this intelectual wealth that he comes to elaborate the philosophy of Self Reliance with which he wrote to explain how America, the then young independent nation could be a super great nation as Great Britain was then.
Benjamin Franklin, lives to show that it is possible to reach success at the personal level and collective level (nation) to reach success through the cultivation of virtues: honesty, order, hard working the same values Emerson encourages Americans to use to succeed. Franklin was also of direct British origin, and throughout his life he has been in thight control with Great Britain. According to many scholars he was even so proud of his deep attachment to Great Britain to support the American independence movement with especially the writing of the American Constitution. For example no where did he speak in his famous Autobiography about his involvment in the writing of the American Constitution.
Benjamin Franklin.
In this memorable thesis I explained through those two authors how Great Britain has provided to America and the world developping ideas and values that make of America the powerful nation it is right now.
Nothing more explains the current status of 5 most powerful country on earth (There is on going debate either our country exact position in the world powerful nation some say we are the 5, another claim that we are the 6th nation on earth what is clear our country needs our commitment to make it regains its naturel place of world super powerful nation it has always been.) that our country occuppies when decades back we were the first nation on earth. This work shows how the council by working on our Subjects to abandon their values coming from our Anglican religion has created the conditions of the lost of power and influence of our country and the economic problem our Kingdom is facing. For Benjamin Franklin has reached his success in politics and business through the cultivation of religious (Puritanism) values, and we all know the deep closness between Puritanism and Anglicanism. Because as we have always said our Monarchy and religion have provided the values that were behind our then super powerfulness.
So the destruction of our British values with the current setting of reign of corruption, usurpation of identity with Prince Charles being replaced optionally by Prince of Wales, and more globally with dead top political leaders being replaced by persons hire by the council to play their roles. Currently our country is leading by an aggregate of political mercenaries: men and women hire by the council to perform all the decisive and sacred function of our Kingdom from the supreme function of Monarch with the Queen and that of Prime Minister. We live in a silent dictatorship, that the council is working to make a public dictatorship with its impossible coup it is figthing to achieve by making King someone who does not have the right; when the rightful; the only legitimate and legal King (King George VII) is keeping hostage in Niger by the council.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The lecturer who suprivised this historic thesis writing is Dr Chaibou El Hadj, who studied both in America and Great Britain. He understands both countries, both cultures for studying there and them, and staying there. In Great Britain Dr Chaibou studies in one of our greatest university, Cambridge University.
Below follow the introduction of this historic thesis( This work is historic as no one writes before us a thesis on such important topic that underlines the originality and importance of this thesis):
Introduction
To understand today’s capitalistic and individualistic society, it is important to know, the works and lives of B. Franklin and R.W Emerson. In the world’s history, especially in that of literature, few writers have marked their time with regard to the intellectual and philosophical creation than Franklin and Emerson. Together, they marked the basic intellectual life of the United States of America: they are at the center of the American socio-political life, since American capitalism was initiated from the development of their ideas. In addition, their Influences do not stop in the United States of America, but they run through Europe and the western world in general, through the endless number of philosophers and writers they have influenced and inspired.
Benjamin Franklin was the first example of the American Dream: through his success, out of the poor and modest root of which he came from. He proves to the young Americans that through hard working and by remaining faithful to the principles of honesty and sincerity one can succeed. In addition, he is the first great scientist and inventor in the history of America. He is the first to show to Europe and the world that an American can do many things. The context is that of the 19thcentury, few years after American independence, and few years before the war of secession. He is really among the founding fathers the most prominent, in the construction of the young nation. The latter needs figures, especially inspirational ones that can give confidence to the future nation who will make it great and powerful. So, the first personage of this work is this highly wonderful man, Franklin, a man that symbolizes today’s America in its creativity and inventiveness.
Benjamin Franklin was born by a day of January 17, 1706, of a father Josiah and a mother Abiah Folger, and surround by eleven siblings. Franklin came from a modest family: his father was a soap maker, who sold candle to supports his great family. Josiah had religious ambition for his son: he saw him doing a religious profession, and it was with this ambition that he sent the young Franklin to grammar school. He was eight. A little bit later, the father changed his mind and moved his son to George Brownwell English School between the academic years 1715 and 1716. Benjamin was 10 when he left school to assist his father in his soap’s business. Two years latter Benjamin entered in his brother’s printing business. There he got the opportunity to complete his education. While in his brother’s business he gave himself time to read many books on literature, philosophy, and then summarized them in his own words. That was how Franklin’s passion for writing started and soon he published his first satirical essays named Silence Do good at 16, in 1722, in his brother’s newspaper.
The following year, he left his brother, after a dispute and then moved from Boston to New York, before landing in Pennsylvania, which he would call home. There on 1728, he created a printing house with his friend, Hugh Meredith. Few years later, Meredith left the business. With determination and hard working Franklin reached success with this printing house, by re-publishing many works such as books of Plato, Cicero, and Samuel Richardson. In 1729, he created a newspaper, namedThe Pennsylvania Gazette, which became famous in the colonies. This newspaper gave to Franklin the means for his later political ambition. At 41 he retired from the printing house business, after having enough money for his life, and then devoted his time for science. In science he made many inventions as the stove, the lightening rod, harmonica etc. Few years later he entered politics where he achieved many major successes. He became, for instance, representative of Pennsylvania in the second Continental Congress, in 1775. He died on April 17, 1790 in Pennsylvania.
The second figure of this work is Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is highly important as Franklin in the building of the new nation. For he is really the architect of the American values, which he theorized with his philosophy of self reliance and non conformism. It is important to notice that at his time, just as today, these concepts have all their importance, regarding that the young nation freshly gains its independence after a long and painful independence war. The young nation was then trying to get its self-confidence after the breaking of the link with the British colonizer.
As the new nation needs to make its independence effective, intellectually and politically, his concept of self-reliance becomes important. That philosophy can be summed up as follows: we, Americans, need to emancipate ourselves from UK and Europe in all the socio-political, scientific and literary fields. We Americans, need to rely on our own strengths. Of course he does not say it in these ways in his work, but that can clearly be understood after reading it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Concord in 1803, from a father of a Unitarian pastor. Emerson had four brothers. He studied in Boston Public Latin School and received a degree from Harvard College in 1821. He attended also Harvard Divinity College where he received a MA. In 1829 Ralph Waldo Emerson married Ellen Tucker, who died few years later of tuberculosis. The death of his wife and his resignation of the position of pastor influence greatly the life of Emerson, since these events touched him emotionally. It was then that he made a long journey in Europe, from France, to Italy and England where he met many writers.
It is important to notice that his philosophical and intense intellectual life began with this crisis and travel. Once back in the US in 1834, he began a long career of lecturer, and married Lydia Johnson in 1802 with whom he would get five children. In 1834 he started his militant life with the defense of the Indian Cherokee who had been removed from their lands. He continued the same humanitarian engagement with his struggle against slavery in the US. Emerson, in the history of the US, is considered as one of the greatest philosophers and writers, if he is not the greatest of all. He is the leader of the transcendentalist movement, a philosophical and spiritual movement that changed forever the face of the American society.
Emerson brought to the US philosophical and intellectual ideas that were the origin of the power and the greatness of the US today. A nation where every single citizen believes strongly that with hard working one can achieve his Dream, one can reach success, no matter how poor one is. Truly, he made of the US today, a nation where every single citizen and individual is strong. Consequently, the union of strong persons made the nation more powerful and strong ever. The core of his philosophical thought is that if every member of society believes in their capacity to change and give meaning to their life, through work and sacrifice, they would be more and more powerful economically and politically. Emerson died in Concord in 1892.
“The Faces of the American Dream in Franklin’s Autobiographyand Emerson’s Essay‘Self Reliance’ ”is about these two thinkers’ contribution to the American Dream. The concept of American Dream is not fixed. It changes with each generation of American along with the core concepts as defined by Franklin and Emerson. So to understand this Dream one needs to understand their works.
But, they did not have the same conception of this Dream. Franklin was conservative and conformist. Emerson was the champion of self-reliance and non conformism which is in many aspects a liberal thought. So in this work I will compare and contrast the two conceptions of the American Dream according to Franklin’s and Emerson’s vision of the society.
The work is divided in two chapters. Chapter one studies the theme of American Dream as relevant to Franklin’sAutobiography and Emerson’s Essay ‘Self Reliance’. Chapter two contrasts the Faces of the American Dream in Franklin’s Autobiographyto Emerson’s Essay‘Self Reliance’. It will appear clearly in this part that Franklin’s conception of the American Dream is more materially oriented while Emerson has a spiritual conception of this Dream. Moreover, as the initiator of the self-reliance philosophy, Emerson has an individualistic approach to the way society must be developed while Franklin backs a collective approach.
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1. Thesis cover final-pdf.pdf
2. Dedication final.pdf
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