David Alexander Robertson is a Canadian writer who works alongside Scott B. Henderson‚ an illustrator‚ to create graphic novels about Residential Schools and Aboriginal history and culture. He comes from a mix of European and Cree heritage‚ and he has worked as an advocate for Aboriginal youth (Robertson‚ n.d.). Robertson and his works are respected and valued by prestigious members of the Aboriginal community. In Robertson’s biography‚ Justice Murray Sinclair is quoted saying‚ “Dave Robertson’s
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The Gettysburg Funeral Oration Pericles’ Funeral Oration and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address are two of the greatest and most memorable speeches ever given. Despite the fact that the two speeches were given some two thousand years apart‚ there are remarkable similarities between the two‚ including content‚ length‚ and the situations in which the speeches were given. The majority of speeches that were given in President Lincoln’s time tended to be extremely long. It was not uncommon for a person
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Alexander Hamilton was a very bright man of his time. He lived from 1755-1804‚ and had a large impact on the country. Lots of his influences are still relevant to this day. Not only was he in the artillery at the outbreak of war‚ but he created the Bank of America. Over all of that‚ he was also highly favored by the people and even the president. No one can deny that the banking system is huge and very important to our country. Hamilton initially established the proposal for a Bank of America
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incorporated into our system. Thus changing how we are governed today. Two of the most famous political stances in our history had very different views on how our government should be established and how it should forever be ran. Alexander Hamilton has always been remembered for his strong
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treaty that would grant the Creek Nation the land they inherently deserved and to end the bloody war on the Southwestern Frontier. Seemingly leading the chiefs to New York City was the Native American version of George Washington‚ and his name was Alexander McGillivray. The McGillivray Moment was a point in time that we know very little about‚ for the official negotiations between the Creek Chiefs and our then loose federal government was oddly never recorded‚ so we can only speculate the topics they
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Based on Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 short story‚ Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic work is a musically idiosyncratic mixture of his recognizable orchestral style with elements of pastiche. Not renowned as a composer of opera‚ Tchaikovsky had hit a bullseye with a previous Pushkin adaptation‚ Eugene Onegin in 1879. Admitting an irresistible attraction to operatic form in spite of his inability to master it‚ the maestro used the folk origins of Pushkin’s verse novel to present a series of interlinked
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Federalism was born in 1787‚ when Alexander Hamilton‚ John Jay‚ and James Madison wrote 85 essays known as the Federalist Papers. These political documents encouraged Americans to adopt the newly-written Constitution and its stronger central government. Hamilton along with his friends believed in ratification of the U.S. Constitution. They wanted a stronger national government‚ a national bank‚ no Bill of Rights‚ no state governments‚ and a strong executive branch. Alex grew up in South Carolina
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I am profiling Ronald Alexander McDougall‚ Chairman and CEO of Brinker International. 1. Brinker International (NYSE: EAT) is the parent company of eight casual dining concepts: Chili’s‚ Macaroni Grill‚ On the Border‚ Maggiano’s‚ Cozymel’s‚ Corner Bakery‚ Rockfish and Big Bowl. Brinker International was established in 1991 to expand Chili’s Inc.‚ and to develop and acquire additional concepts. As of March 26‚ 2003‚ Brinker International had 1118 company owned units and 252 franchise owned units
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Alexander Fleming Biography… Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield a farm near Darvel in East Ayrshire Scotland. After the war Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents‚ having witnessed the death of many soldiers from septicemia resulting from infected wounds. Unfortunately antiseptics killed the patients’ immunological defences more effectively than they killed the invading bacteria. In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I‚ Fleming described
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Being a Creek leader in the 1780s and 1790s‚ Alexander McGillivray was one of many Southeastern Indians with a Native American mother and European father. He used his European powers to protect Creek interests‚ and created nationalist reforms within Creek society. He used trade to increase his own position on the southern frontier. McGillivray was born in 1750 in Little Tallassee which is located near present-day Montgomery‚ Alabama. His father‚ Lachlan McGillivray‚ was a Scottish trader and his
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