Lin-Manuel Miranda has performed in many shows and productions. Soon after college he wrote a musical called In The Heights. Later on this became a broadway production in which he starred. He has also worked on countless other productions such as West Side Story and Bring It On the Musical. That's not all though! He has also performed in TV shows and movies. Some examples of this are, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, and The Odd Life Of Timothy Green. In addition, he also wrote and performed in the now well known broadway musical Hamilton. Hamilton is all about the life of one of the great founding fathers of America, Alexander Hamilton. It has become a very popular musical across the country. Lastly, he wrote all of the music…
I enjoyed watching “Alexander the Great: Alexander Hamilton” from Uncommon Knowledge. It was interesting to hear directly from the author of the biography of Hamilton, Ron Chernow. His biography of Alexander Hamilton is the one that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to write a popular Broadway musical about…
Have you ever heard a story from a hip hop point of view? “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda is about Alexander Hamilton’s life and the role he played in the American Revolution and how he impacted the American people through music and how his life was and how he grew. Miranda accurately portrays history within Hamilton through historical facts and inaccurately through making it modern. These choices in portrayal impact the reader or listener’s understanding of the characters, time period, or musical by making it modern and not as realistic for the time. Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an accurate portrayal of the characters by giving most of them the right historical background for them and the events they go through…
Alexander Hamilton obtained an extraordinarily up-to-date economic vision based on investment, industry, and expanded commerce. Before the 1790s, the American economy North and South was very well tied to a trans-Atlantic system of oppression. However, the northern states directed their most lucrative trade with the slave colonies of the West Indies. Hamilton anted to change the American economy away from oppression…
While both Jefferson and Hamilton were brilliant minds and were major contributors to establishing our nation, and its flourishing, they both had very different views on key structural aspects of the country.…
Hamiltonian, Lieutenant- colonel, First U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and spent his time devoted to the rich and wealthy individuals of Virginia. Though I have little knowledge on today’s congress, senate, and military. What I do remember is that what we have in common with Hamilton is,” Strong central government, order and organization, Industrial development, Helped establish a financial credit for the U.S. government. Hamilton had a firm belief that the rich, powerful and well educated should have the control on the government. Which in all honesty looking at today modern times, I can fully agree that the much upper class controlling the government, why? To be blunt money talks in future and I’m sure during 1780s and 90s it did as well, the rich and well educated people would rather spend his or her tax money on what they believe is right each upper class individual have a grasp on politics. Hamilton’s strong belief is still going strong today and being applied through the Senate Congress…
The reason I was able to see the impact they had on our country is because John E. Ferling, the author, described the hardships and successes of each person in great detail starting from the very beginning and continuing on all the way to the very end of their lives. John E. Ferling approached this book with a higher opinion of Jefferson, but gained greater appreciation for Hamilton towards the end. I enjoyed learning more about the forming of our nation and the lives of some of our founding fathers. I am inclined to learn more about the characters in the book because the play, ‘Hamilton’ on Broadway is something I’ve wanted to see for a while. I’m interested to see how similar and accurate the play is compared to the book. This author’s writing style is something I enjoyed reading, but I don’t think reading another one of his books is something I’d take part in. My recommendation for this book would be to read it for school and other educational purposes, but only read it for pleasure if you thoroughly enjoy…
In Alexander Hamilton (2004), Ron Chernow tackles the errand of depicting America's most questionable Founding Father. The book gives an expansive perspective of the scene of early America, with unique accentuation on Hamilton's accomplishments and his relationship to certain Founders.Before understanding this book, my contemplations concurred with the prevalent picture of Hamilton as a splendid however tyrannical man who was as often as possible required in outrages or in clashes with different Founders. I heard that he pushed government, protectionism, mercantilism, a solid government, and a national bank. I additionally realized that he had something to do with the Constitution and thought of a portion of The Federalist Papers. I realized…
“In the Heights” was his first musical to reach Broadway. The musical was about a young man, played by Lin, growing up as a teenager in the rough parts of Puerto Rico. He had used a lot of his grandmother’s stories to really get a connection with what Puerto Rico had been like. After “In the Heights” Lin was hired to help write the score for the Broadway musical “Bring it On”. While on vacation from writing, Lin decided to pick up the book Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, and started reading. Automatically Lin compared to hard life of Alexander Hamilton to the struggles he often heard in hip hop or rap songs. After this he decided that he would write a modern, hip hop, musical about Hamilton’s life. It took him over one year to write the first song and another year for the second. Finally, after six years of work he was finished writing “Hamilton”. “Hamilton” alone was awarded eleven Tony awards that Lin could add to his four other Tonys from “In the…
Hamilton is considered one of the most influential interpreters and advocates of the Constitution. He was one of the common writers of the Federalist papers, writing 51 out of the 85 papers. The Federalist papers were propaganda published in journals or newspapers, and their purpose was to educate citizens on why the Constitution should be ratified. They were always published under the pseudonym Publius to preserve their names from the public. In Federalist #23, Hamilton writes of how the Constitution must be energetic in order to have an energetic government. An energetic government would be one that is effective and powerful in their actions. In order to create and preserve an energetic government and protect and limit the citizens individual liberty, the fundamental purposes of the Union are the common defense of the members, the preservation of public peace and external attacks, and the regulation of commerce between the states and other nations.…
The ideal American republic for Hamilton from Johnson perspective is that Hamilton created a scheme in order to run the country. The scheme was helpful to America because as he predicted America was able to borrow money more cheaply. The Debt-funding was the first policy drafted by Hamilton. He also spoke about implemented measures for individuals who tried to rebel against taxation. Hamilton got the militia to dissolve the rebellion to basically prove the government is not in control. In Zinn’s argument about Hamilton, he stated that Hamilton suggested that there should be a president and senate for life and the government should a line itself with the richest element of the society.…
These smaller contributions include his service in the Chamber of Deputies during the Hundred Years War, his considerable influence in the July Revolution of 1830, and his threats to otherthrow Emperor Napoleon, despite Napoleon releasing Lafayette from captivity years before (“Brandywine”). The Marquis De Lafayette's contributions to both America and France have sustained his legacy for over 200 years. He has been remembered in many different ways, such as being a featured character in the 2015 Broadway musical “Hamilton”, or having his most famous document, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, still be a vital part of the French Constitution over 200 years after it was written. The Marquis de Lafayette's contributions have valiantly withstood the test of…
[14] Crossen, Cynthia. "We Worship Jefferson, But We Have Become Hamilton 's America." Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition, February 04, 2004,…
Hamilton is an incredibly popular, highly awarded musical and its had this much success for a reason. Not only is it an incredibly well written piece of work, it deals with so many issues in today’s world. But it does this through the lens of a historical story. By addressing how the world looks now by observing how the world looked then we can see how far society has come and also see how far it still needs to go. This play address politics, race, and culture, and it works to advance society by uniting historically white dominated theater with the culturally diverse hip hop and rap genres of music.…
Hamilton strongly believed that our new country should have a strong base of Manufacturing, and he had some good reasons, too. One of the reasons Hamilton believed it so strongly because it added additional employment for American citizens. Our country has always had trouble with unemployment, then and now, mostly because we grew from our own employment which is very hard thing to do especially to grow…