Alexander Spotswood

Democracy, “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” is the foundation of the United States government. The country that first invented and interacted with this way of life is the Greek civilization (800-146 B.C). Greece also contributed to the modern world with its various works of art, architectures, and myths. Greek values influenced their works of arts, architectures, and myths, as well as their everyday lives. Some of the classical Greek values were idealized body,…

Alexander of Macedon is know as “Alexander The Great,” because of his military intelligence and diplomatic skills in handling the people in the places he conquered. His skills later influenced other conquerors such as, Hannibal the Carthaginian, the Romans Pompey and Caesar, and Napoleon. Alexander grew up watching his father make Macedon into a great military power, and he learned from that. Alexander III of Macedon became king when his father, Philip II of Macedon, was assassinated in 336…

Hamilton it the newest and hottest show on Broadway. It tells the story of American founding father, right hand man to George Washington, and first U.S Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton. The show has been seen by everyone, from Beyonce and Jay Z to Barack Obama. Tickets are practically impossible to get. One of the most innovative things about this show that make history interesting is that the music is more hip-hop than musical theatre. The genius behind Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, is…

actually have one somewhere in it. The list of so called accidental discoveries that have been key to the history of science would definitely not be complete without the next one, probably the most famous one of all time. Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was serving as the Professor of Bacteriology at the St. Mary's Hospital in London in 1928. He had just returned from the holidays when he immediately noticed something unusual as he sorted through his petri dishes that…

two purposes, mainly for men. It was handy if you were a soldier and away from home, also serving as a blanket on a cold night. In early Greece, men normally had short hair and grew beards. During the Hellenistic era (a time between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of the Roman Empire) , beards went out of style. CHILDREN Children normally wore nothing at all, but sometimes they wore cloth diapers. If it was cold, of course, they would be more wrapped up. Children also often wore…

a “broad interpretation” when situations arose that required such flexibility. Notably, the members of the Federalist Party were less known than those of the anti-Federalist Party and their careers had begun later during the Revolution, such as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. The anti-Federalist Party was opposed to the Constitution because they believed it to be a limitation on individual rights and the rights of the individual states. The beliefs of these…

the Constitutional Convention and the debate over the ratification of the constitution in 1787 is a struggle between two points of view. On one side you have the Federalists and on the other Anti-federalists. Leading the Federalist enterprise was Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay who wrote eighty-five essays that were to convince the people of New York to vote for the newly written Constitution. The new…

The topic explored was the purpose and use of schematic charts to project the causes relating to a historical period, being the Ancient Greek World. This topic is a period study from within the HSC syllabus (BOSTES, 2009, p.68), where the principal focus is the examination of sources both archaeological as well as written, concerning the forces and the major developments that had impacted and shaped the Greek society from 500 to 440BC. Specifically, this presentation concerns itself by providing…

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Alexander Hamilton is best known as the principal author of the classic work on constitutional government. However, his enduring influence on American matters of state lies equally with his reports to Congress on the financial affairs of the Federal government. Hamilton is chiefly responsible for the design and establishment of Federal institutions, and above all for the financial system which helped consolidate the states into a…

Political party has long been dividing people: From the Whigs to the Tories; socialist to conservative; Left wings to the right. Government tends to have two polar sides. For George Washington’s farewell address, he wrote “Let me...warn you in the most solemn manner against the bane ful effects of the spirit of party...it serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the…