Adam Duritz

loyalty and patriotism, so the friendship between the two families fell apart. The correspondence and friendship between Mercy and John didn’t start back up until three years after James passed away. There is no doubt that Mercy’s relationship with John Adams provided her with the greatest amount of critique and passion for her political writings. Despite being a woman living in a man’s world, Mercy Otis Warren made the absolute best in her situation. Her History of the American Revolution was…

Benjamin Franklin is one of the most significant people in American history. He is not only a founding father; he is also an author, inventor, scientist, and a diplomat. All of these things helped him provide great contributions to the United States history. These contributions include his many different inventions including the glass armonica, bifocals, and of course his most famous invention the lightning rod, which will be discussed more further in. Another one of Franklin’s contributions…

(Paradise Lost 3.p.757,ll. 204-213) could be God’s justification that something big has to be done as justice for the sin committed by Adam and Eve. His first two ideas of ending all of humankind or ending justice itself end up not being his final plan. Instead, he sends his Son Jesus Christ to try and fix humankind. If God is all-knowing, then it is completely possible that Adam and Eve’s sin was another test to see if humankind was ready for his true plan of sending down his Son. God wanted to…

Alexander Hamilton was a very important man. He was one of the founding fathers of our nation. Alexander was born in Charleston, Saint Kitts on January 11, 1755. His parents were Rachel Fawcett Lavien, and James Hamilton. His mother was abused by her first husband. She had than ran away and moved in with James Hamilton. They then had another son named James, which was Alexander’s older brother. James Hamilton had left his family a few years after Alexander was born. This left Rachel all by…

found freedoms of the American citizens. The Declaration of Independence served as a form of government for the people during that time. The Declaration of Independence was officially adopted on July 4, 1776, and signed by John Handcock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Penn to name a few. “Together with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence can be counted as one of the three essential founding documents of the United States” (SOURCE…

Aaron Burr is a major figure in American history, known for his politics, and his duel with Alexander Hamilton. He was born into a family with a history of activity in politics. Not so surprisingly, that is the career path that he followed. His original career was being a lawyer in NY. Eventually he got his first major job in politics, which was being a Senator, a position he was elected to in 1791. He increased his importance when he became the Vice President of Thomas Jefferson in 1800.…

George Washington and John Adams stayed in constant contact with their partners throughout the shaping of America, causing their wives to be…

Throughout the late 18th century, America was becoming t its own independent nation. The new independent nation needed to set up a government to rule them. There were several discussions on how America would be governed. Many people had different yet some similar ideas for America. Thomas Paine, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson all wrote their ideas on how America should set up their government. Some of these ideas were still used today but not used then…

The beggar fits differently into Smith’s and Marx’s accounts of capitalist production due to dissimilar understandings of human nature. To begin with, according to Smith, our human nature is self-interest. It is the fundamental axiom that powers what Smith calls the “division of labor”. Smith explains that self-interest creates and initiates trade amongst people, which in turn develops into the idea of the division of labor and efficient production. For Smith, the trading of goods and services…

The Real of the Ideal The meaning of an American identity is an ideal and a contradiction. In Creating America, Joyce Moser and Ann Watters suggest that, “In understanding American identities, we need to come to terms with unity and division, with separateness and common ground”. This quotation is full of contradictions such as “unity” to “division” and “separateness” to “common ground”. The contradiction gives a complete image of America. The argument stated by Moser and Watters seems to be…