Alexander

In 356 B.C. Phillip II and his third wife Olympias had a child named Alexander. At a young age Alexander was educated by a wise Greek philosopher named Aristotle. According to Plutarch, Alexander went against Aristotle’s advice to treat the Greeks as a leader, and the barbarians as a master (Plutarch 4). However, he treated them as friends and kinsmen so that his kingdom would not be filled with warfare, banishments and secret plots. In this way he could mediate and govern the world (Plutarch 4)…

has done. Good and bad. His name is Alexander. Also known as Alexander the Great. That has been his nickname for centries. What makes him so great? He was born in 356 BCE. Alexander was tutored by Aristotle. His father was mysteriously killed in 336 BCE, Alexander picked up where his father left off to defeat the Persians. He is the leader and won’t let anyone be over him. He was too arrogant for his own good. Honestly, what was there to like about Alexander the Great? He takes over everything…

Alexander the Great won battles all over Greece, Egypt and the former Persian Empire, but after ten long years of fighting his soldiers were losing their will to continue. Their next conquest was against the Indian King Porus, with his large and daunting army. Alexander needed to give his men a reason to continue fighting. Alexander the Great was rhetorically successful in motivating his men to continue in their campaign by using past victories to gain their confidence, comparisons to other…

Alexander Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, British West Indies on January 11th, 1757. Alex was born to Rachel Fawcett Lavien and John Lavien. John Lavien was an abusive husband so Rachel decided to flee their relationship with Alexander and his brother James who was older. Rachel remarried to James Hamilton. When Alex was 10 his father, James, left them with all his debts for Rachel to deal with. Alexander took his first job when he was only 11. Despite his best efforts Alexander’s…

structure; to the more severe, unfortunate incident (as well as a curiously favored sugar breakfast food). One may wonder how a rather versatile word like “great” should be applied to a noun to describe its respective attribute, such as the honorific of Alexander III of Macedonia. The young king was the son of the Macedonian king, Philip II, and the princess of Epirus, Olympias. During his rule between twenty and thirty-two years of…

ALEXANDER HAMILTON Madison May History 2010- 06; American History 1 November 10, 2016 When most people think of the founding fathers the first person to come to mind isn’t normally Alexander Hamilton. Although he is one of the only people on U.S. money, being on the ten-dollar bill. Most people think of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but Alexander Hamilton is both very interesting and very important. Hamilton is someone you learn about in both history classes…

Alexander Hamilton was born at roughly January11, 1755 or 1757. He was born in the British West Indies on an island named Nevis. Alexander’s father was James Hamilton who was a Scottish trader, and his mother, a woman whose name was Rachel Fawcett Lavine (French), was married to John Michael Lavine, when Alexander was born. Rachel got threw out of John’s home for disloyalty in their marriage. When Alexander was still an infant, James Hamilton left his household and Alexander behind. They fought…

Free will: Alexander Hamilton began life as an impoverished orphan and worked as hard as he possibly could to rise to the top. He was majorly intelligent and wrote non-stop and was willing to work to get out of the current state he was in. In the exercise of his free will, Hamilton defied the odds of dying alone and poor in the Caribbean and decided to go out and make something of himself. He became a new man in New York with the help of his friends Nicholas Cruger and Reverend Hugh Knox.…

The Political Accomplishments of Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of our country. He was born on January 11, 1757 in Charlestown on the island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands, British West Indies (Yost 1). He moved to Elizabethtown, New Jersey in October, 1772 . There he was educated at King's College which later became Columbia University in New York City. During the Revolutionary War, he served four years as General Washington’s Chief of Staff. His…

Alexander the Great was a king of a country called Macedonia and was born around 365 BC, he was thought of the greatest military leader of his time. He spent his childhood in hopes of becoming his father, his father was a conquer like him conquering many countries. He showed his skills as a child and one of the famous stories of him showing his skills is him taming Bucephalus(his horse) he then later used this horse to conquer the country. His late father was assassinated by the Pausanias, he…