Bethany Hamilton

Hamilton: The Revolution outlines Lin-Manuel Miranda’s creative process while creating his hit musical, Hamilton. The musical utilizes rap music and a diverse cast to tell the story of founding father Alexander Hamilton. Miranda was inspired by Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, which he read while on vacation in Mexico, which gave him the idea to write Hamilton’s life as a musical. Miranda spent many years working on the music and characters associated with this project. Eventually, he was able…

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson had one common goal altogether. There goal was to create a fair government for the United States of America that would work and can be set into place for a long period of time. This being said, there are many things they disagree on and have many different viewpoints in government. Both, Hamilton and Jefferson had and wanted two different ideas of how as well as who should control government likewise how government should be controlled. The main ideas and…

How They Compare? (Three reasons how Jefferson and Douglass compare in their writings?) Thomas Jefferson, a founding father of our nation, has many values we American’s view as good ones. His ideas influence our lives every day, such as those in the constitution. It has many views within it that have changed our world and shaped it into the world it is today. We can’t help but think of our world without these amendments or how we might be without them. If we didn’t have some of the amendments…

The federalist papers were a series of eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay in 1787 and 1788. The purpose of these papers was to gain support for the US Constitution, especially in New York. The Papers were instrumental because they give a good insight into the Framers’ minds. In Federalist Paper 51 presents a proper and workable system of checks and balances between the several main departments of branches, of government. James Madison wrote Federalist…

government were necessary to have a prosperous nation. Thus the Constitution, with clear distinctions to the Articles, was drafted. James Madison, often cited as the Father of the Constitution, in conjunction with several other Federalist, like Alexander Hamilton, wrote the Federalist Papers to persuade members of Congress and the states to ratify the document. Noted by history as two of the most influential pieces from the collection, The Federalist Papers, Federalist 10 and Federalist 51…

historical figures almost everyone has heard of, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, were both early American political figures that wanted to make the country distinguished, but in remarkably different ways. These two individuals were differing fundamentalists of government which instigated them to form the very first political parties of the United States. The atmosphere and ecosystems surrounding Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton permitted each gentleman to challenge each other…

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton 's social views differed greatly. Their ideals for who should be able to vote and the amount of confidence they had in the common man were like night and day. Hamilton understood people to be inconsistent and untruthful. They make decisions based on their own passions. Therefore, the voice should be given to the first class, whom he considered to be God 's chosen people. He thought they had a special privilege simply because they were born into the upper…

called The Duel, highlights the confrontation between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr which ended in Hamilton dying of a fatal wound. What happened is Burr, who was tired of Hamilton fiddling with his political career based off of their different political views. Once Hamilton was challenged he couldn’t say no because that would ruin his honor, but so would losing. They met up on July 11th (FIND YEAR) at (FIND PLACE) and Hamilton got to choose the gun cause he was challenged, the gun he choose…

actions. It is pertinent to emphasize that, Jefferson kept the tax on whiskey, which seems very ironic given that it was extremely hated, and supported by the Federalists. The case of taxes is just the root to prove that, Jefferson did fulfill some of Hamilton goals. In the document “Thomas Jefferson on Race and Slavery”, Jefferson contradicts himself on his main view on economic instigations: He declares that slaves should be freed and exiled out of the United States, yet his main goal is to…

Postbellum United States required great attention to both its creation, rejuvenation, and restoration as a stable nation. In the book, Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis presented readers with an insight into some of the more problematic portions of the creation of this nation. Some issues within the border of the Union, namely those surrounding the national debt and establishment of the capitol of the United States were addressed with urgency while slavery, another great problem that inevitably…