Alexander Hamilton proved himself a hero when he completed his well known achievement of the financial plan‚ also known as the Hamiltonian System. The Hamiltonian system is the system where the government assumes state debts(Biography.com). Which means that the government will take everyones debts away and pay them themselves. The government really didn’t like this idea so it took Hamilton about a year to persuade congress to go along with the Hamiltonian System(Biography.com)."Hamilton’s vision
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designed to bring down the infamous bootlegger‚ Alphonse Capone. Heading the task force assigned to the Capone investigation‚ Ness and nine other agents successfully seized operations of breweries run by Capone. This is one of Ness’s most recognizable achievements.
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to forget his losses. Napoleon had many domestic and diplomatic/military achievements‚ some were great and others were his worst blunders. To most of Europe‚ Napoleon was just another conqueror trying to expand his territories‚ but to the people of France‚ he was a great leader; he “restored peace and order at home” (Kagan‚ Ozment‚ Turner‚ Frank 586). Restoring order to France was one of his greatest domestic achievements; the people loved him for his support in helping them win their fight for
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The European desire for capital was socially disastrous because they implemented the strategy of divide and conquer within the Native American and African-origin peoples. Hartman quotes Walter Rodney in saying “There was in existence a fundamental class contradiction between the ruling nobility and the commoners; and the ruling classes joined hands with the Europeans in exploiting the African masses” (Hartman 31). Indeed‚ the Europeans’ entitlement made them foreign to the idea of family and ultimately
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It’s important to clarify that the term “achievement gap” stems from the deficit ideology itself. As Gloria Ladson-Billings has incessantly urged‚ the term “education debt” is much more fitting. This term allows us to conjure long term solutions for inequities that have historically accumulated. However‚ as mentioned before‚ the literature on the disparity of academic performance‚ is still debated between the two main groups of the deficit ideology and the education debt. We will take a closer into
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Najee Bailey Professor Scheuermann English 101 03/04/12 Rodriguez describes his journey of language through the influence of his grandmother‚ the battles of balancing both the native language and the English language and by his disagreement of “individuality”. Rodriguez designates his passage by describing the struggles he endured as a bilingual Hispanic in American society. Born as an American citizen to Mexican immigrants‚ Rodriguez was the child of working-class parents. He started going to
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Apple Of My Eye: A Summary of Michael Pollan’s ’The Apple’ from The Botany of Desire Micheal Pollan begins his bestselling novel‚ “The Botany Of Desire”‚ with a question‚ what is the difference between humans‚ and the bumblebee? Pollan argues that humans do not have control over nature as we tend to believe‚ he believes that nature plays an equal or even more dominant role in our relationship. He states‚ “this book tells a different story of man and nature”(xxv) and he tells this story through the
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Goolagong Cawley born 1951 and a former Australian world number one tennis player won fourteen Grand Slam titles in the 1970’s through to the early 1980’s. Korff (2015) writes about Evonne’s achievements as she “was the first Aboriginal Australian to win a Wimbledon Tennis Championship in 1971.” She had many achievements in the tennis world including Australian of the year in 1971‚ Order of the British Empire in 1972‚ Order of Australia in 1982‚ Sports Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and International Tennis
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examine a play‚ they will find that the plot has linear unfolding from scene to scene. Also‚ there will be various types of characters with different types of personalities and behavior such as the protagonist and antagonist. The play‚ A StreetCar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ shows characteristics of protagonist and antagonist. This play is about a woman named Blanche DuBois‚ who moves with her sister‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and her husband‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ in New Orleans. Blanche’s flirtatious behavior
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The loss of identity is an oft-discussed subject in literature. A character’s tie or affiliation to a defined identity in a piece has the tendency to illustrate how the archetype of the character functions in society as a whole. In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ the symbolic death of the aristocratic Southern lifestyle of grandeur serves as a notion that illuminates on the meaning of the piece. Comparing and contrasting characters such as Blanche DuBois‚ a typical Southern belle who
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