him. In the musical Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of America. The reason why he was the founding father of America is because he fought in the American Revolutionary War. He helped draft the constitution. The only reason why they added him to the musical is because he did more for the people than other founding fathers did. Hamilton is one of the most successful and one of the hardest working men out of all the founding fathers. In the 1780s Hamilton married this woman named Eliza
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Not only one of America’s Founding Fathers‚ Benjamin Franklin is one of the world’s most influential human beings. Most people recognize him as the face of a hundred dollar bill or the elementary school lesson of his kite in a storm discovering electricity. He was a scientist‚ an inventor‚ a printer‚ a philosopher‚ a musician‚ an economist‚ and of course a statesman. With his tremendous intellectual gifts‚ Franklin introduced devices to society that benefited America as a whole. Franklin’s most famous
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John Jay‚ a Founding Father of the United States‚ served the new nation in both law and diplomacy. He held the position of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as well as a variety of other top government positions. The New York native drafted the state’s first constitution in 1777 and the following year was chosen president of the Continental Congress. He then became U.S. minister to Spain‚ helping to broker the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. Jay was appointed
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William Wordsworth as Founding Father of Romantic Poetry Although love may occasionally show itself as a muse of Romantic poetry it has very little to do with Romanticism. Romanticism is considered to be an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.(Brooklyn College) The early Romantic period begins with the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth - co-written
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that death cannot be defied‚ death is constant‚ and death is fair. The father in this story searches for a godfather for his thirteenth child‚ a son. The first person he comes to is God. He sees God as unfair and biased toward poor people. He states he does not want him as the godfather because he feels God does not disperse wealth equally; this stems from him being poor and having twelve and now a thirteenth child. As the father comes across the Devil as his next choice‚ he discredits the Devil by
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The Transcendentalists are by far the most important movement in this chapter. Summarize what an APUSH student should know about them. The early transcendentalists included the essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was a feminist‚ social reformer‚ and author. Other transcendentalists included Margaret Fuller‚ Minister Theodore Parker‚ and the naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau. Transcendentalists maintained that truth transcended the senses and it couldn’t not be found
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Transcendentalist McCandless What is transcendentalism? How is Christopher J. McCandless a transcendentalist? Transcendentalism is a philosophy‚ and a way of life. It consists of being a non-conformist‚ becoming one with nature‚ and rejecting materialism. Throughout Jon Krakauer’s novel‚ Into The Wild‚ McCandless happens to achieve all of the above. “Whoso would be a man‚ must be a non-conformist” (Emerson). He defied society‚ lived in the wild‚ and never cared about “things”. He existed
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The Real Wild First off‚ Chris McCandless is a celebrity in the transcendentalist community because of his search for the meaning of life independently. Jon Krakauer respects McCandless because no one prompted him to go out into the Alaskan wilderness‚ since most people need a push to do something. However some people believe McCandless is a fool and should be forgotten about and that he was spoiled rotten and was just wanting attention. The truth that most people do not know is‚ McCandless’s parents
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Massachusetts to founder of the Boston Committee of Correspondences‚ he never stepped aside and allowed a tyrant to control his life‚ making him one of the most influential founding fathers. Born on September twenty seventh‚ 1772 in Boston Massachusetts Adams was always right in the thick of the conflicts Americans dealt with. His Father‚ Samuel Adams Sr.‚ was a successful
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Action will delineate and define you.” -Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was born in Virginia on April 13‚ 1743 and later died on July 4‚ 1826. Jefferson grew up in the Shad well ‚ Virginia where his father peter Jefferson was very wealthy. Jefferson and his family moved to Tuckahoe in 1745 ‚ and later his father died in 1775. He is the third of ten children. On June 11‚1776 anticipated that the vote for independence would be unfavorable. Something that you may not have known is that his favorite device
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