Is Benedict Arnold a traiter?
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Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 – June 14, 1801) was a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He is best known for an act of treason against the United States — plotting to surrender the American fort at West Point, New York to the British. Arnold had distinguished himself as a hero of the revolution early in the war through acts of cunning and bravery at Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 and at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. Arnold strongly opposed the decision by the Continental Congress to form an alliance with France, having experienced a bitter defeat at the hands of the French and their Indian allies during the French and Indian War (1754–1763).\n\nDisaffected due to grievances with the Continental Congress and the military, suffering from mounting personal debt, and facing corruption charges filed by the Pennsylvania civil authorities, Arnold also faced pressure at home from his young second wife, a British Loyalist. In 1780, he formulated his infamous scheme. If successful, this would have given British forces control of the Hudson River valley and split the colonies in half. The plot was thwarted, but Arnold managed to flee to England, where he was rewarded with a commission as a Brigadier General in the British Army along with a reduced award of £6,000 sterling.
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He is overrated.\n\nHe was young and handsome, had a glamorous wife, gave good speeches and was killed in office.\n\nMuch of the legend is built on emotion.
609055
Yes.  He's an inspirational man who teaches that everyone has the power to have a successful and happy life.  I read one of his books and it was full of wisdom and positive thinking. His ideas are only useful if you are willing to put in the work to become successful though.
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Not sure.  The only traits that are obvious to everyone who knows him is that he:\n\nis fat,\nis loud,\nsweats a lot,\ndoes drugs,\nlikes to annoy people,\nshoves his foot in his mouth way way way too often.
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Not at all - look at what made him the most known (a cheat), that is not the type of reputation I would want to have & hopefully not many would want that type of recognition. Honor and integrity are a very important part of my life & I wish it were so for more people.
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He found men with the largest reputations were lesser than the men of lesser repuation.\n\nI think there is a thinking that says that men not interested in the honest work of tilling the fields went into professions like teaching and politics.  From that standpoint you see that many in the public eye are actually good at evading hard work and keeping themselves in a lucrative situation with words and ideas that are not based upon the life of the average person - thereby removing him from a general reality, as it were.  So the person who seems worldly really knows very little about the actual world.\n\nThe people who are working and living and raising their families are generally too busy to worry about reputation or being in the public eye - but they have learned important things by life's lessons and develop a wisdom that is a wonderful thing.  So the person who might seem common or to lead a simple life can have insights into life and relationships that are very interesting and important indeed.\n\nThat's what I say anyway! \n\nPeace!
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He would have a balanced personality - because for true spirituality you must know yourself spiritually and know how to be quiet and listen and ponder before creating, but if you ever have noticed the kinds of things He did in one day - you would see He is very people-oriented as well. It's up to us to strive to achieve that same kind of balance.
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yes,but it differs from the  way your looking for a personality,like behaviour,body,attitude & knowledge.\nif your intersted to more about the person,you must have to know, that person must have these qualities.but i am  not clear about what kind of personalities you mean
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I don't think that Arnold is a hater of women.\n\nThe Disciple asked:\nWhat is a misogynist?\n\nThe Master replied: I do not know; but it is used by cowards as a term of abuse for those who say what everybody thinks. Cowards are the men who cannot approach a woman without going out of their minds and becoming treacherous. They buy the woman’s favour by serving their friends’ heads on a silver platter; and they absorb so much femininity that they see with her eyes and feel with her feelings. Agreed: there are things you do not mention in everyday conversation, and you do not tell your woman what is the essence of her gender; but one is sometimes allowed to write it. Schopenhauer put it best, Nietzsche not badly, Joséphin Péladan is the master; Thackeray wrote Men’s Wives, but that was suppressed; Balzac unmasked Caroline in The Physiology of Marriage, and Petty Troubles of Married Life; Otto Weininger, having discovered the treachery when he was twenty, did not wait for the revenge but left the scene.
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I would.  He's smart and principled.  One might think he should have spoken out louder about his disagreements with the Bush administration.  But his not having done more reflects only on his respect for stability.  He did all that was possible.  He's a good middle ground.
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Rep. John Murtha would be more in line with John Kerry and Benedict Arnold.  Yes, Murtha is a veteran, but so was Arnold. Yes, Kerry was wounded in action, but so was Arnold. Murtha and Kerry were patriots who served this country in war, but so was the traitor, Benedict Arnold.
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not that important.....I'm more concerned with his character...how he treats others....is he intelligent...does he have a good sense of humor...things like that....income is secondary to me.
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Yes I do.  However, Hitler had more personality, and could grow a mustache.
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According to reports, Benedict himself has not joined the fray one way or the other. Although others in the Vatican have.
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I don't know if your statement is true or not, and sounds a lot like stereotyping. But I'm going to answer anyway. I'm not asian, and not in California, but it may have something to do with Arnold being a "foreigner" like a lot of them may be. They can "relate" to that better. Unfortunately, a lot people don't care about the politician's stand on the issues. They want a personal connection of some type to that person. \n\nThen again, I could be wrong.
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Absolutely! And he will be viewed as one of the best Presidents ever. He has the courage of his convictions and is not swayed by public opinion as his predecessor was.
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Arnold wrote during the Victorian period (1837–1901), and is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, behind Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson and Robert Browning. Arnold himself was keenly aware of his place in poetry, and in an 1869 letter to his mother, discussed the merits of his work and his two more famous peers: "My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably have their day as people become conscious to themselves of what that movement of mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetic sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning. Yet because I have more perhaps of a fusion of the two than either of them, and have more regularly applied that fusion to the main line of modern development, I am likely enough to have my turn, as they have had theirs."\n\nSome consider Arnold to be the bridge between Romanticism and Modernism. His use of symbolic landscapes was typical of the Romantic era, while his negative opinions towards everything were typical of the Modern era. The rationalistic tendency of certain of his writings gave offence to many readers, and the sufficiency of his equipment in scholarship for dealing with some of the subjects which he handled was called in question; but he undoubtedly exercised a stimulating influence on his time; his writings are characterised by the finest culture, high purpose, sincerity, and a style of great distinction, and much of his poetry has an exquisite and subtle beauty, though here also it has been doubted whether high culture and wide knowledge of poetry did not sometimes take the place of true poetic fire. Henry James wrote that Matthew Arnold's poetry will appeal to those who "like their pleasures rare" and who like to hear the poet "taking breath."