Alexander Hamilton Most people know him as the man on the ten dollar bill but who is he and what did he do to help shape the great United states we know today. Alexander was a great person in the history books but not well known. In the musical Alexander Hamilton it showed who hamilton was as a man, Military soldier, And a politician. The musical showed both his personal and professional life in a new way than what the history books told, The musical gives a whole new perspective of hamilton's life
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Samuel F.B. Morse Samuel F.B. Morse was born in Charleston, Massachusetts April 27th 1791. He was the son of the distinguished geographer in congregational clergymen Jedidiah Morse. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. There he had been unsteady and eccentric student his parents and come to your college which is located in New Haven Connecticut. Even though he wasn't indifferent scholar his interest was aroused by lectures on the little understood subject of electricity. He also
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I am sitting next to a miracle. His name is William Kamkwamba. He is sixteen years old. He is the embodiment of the future I long for at night, and thought was naught but a distant dream. All of the qualities I want to find in myself can be found in this young man: creativity, persistence, self confidence, and humility. I want to shout, loud enough that everyone in this cramped cage of an airplane will turn and look, “I’m sitting next to William Kamkwamba! He built his own windmill! He’s
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Let us begin with a discussion of Shakespeare’s artistic output during his lifetime. Strolling through any bookstore, it is not hard to see that Shakespeare’s plays are, in what we shall see is a modern idea of authorial ownership, attributed to him alone. While this is a nice fiction, and one that certainly contributes to the myth of Shakespeare-as-demigod, the truth of the matter is that Shakespeare’s works were often composed in collaboration with other playwrights. As Frank Kermode notes, playwrights
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When students walk into English class excited to work on their interpreted works of Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, they get right to work as they do different scenes ranging from a Valley Girl balcony scene to a Asian-Indian Mercutio's death scene to a Star Wars version of the classical death scene. Keeping Shakespeare’s works within the school’s curriculum allows for the students to be creative have a broader view of the world. Shakespeare and most of his works (e.g. Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet)
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Simon’s death may or may not have been murder, but Piggy was flat out murdered, both by Jack and his group or “tribe”. Simon is the Jesus-like person in the story, and Piggy was the man of reason in the group of boys that survived the plane crash. Simon is considered the christ-like figure in the Lord Of The Flies, but there are a few comparisons and differences between Simon and Jesus. “Although Jesus and Simon both die sacrificial deaths, Jesus was killed for his beliefs, whereas Simon is killed
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8. Othello – also called as Reversi, this is a board game that requires strategy in order to win. Othello is played between two players on an 8x8 uncheckered board. Each player will have their own discs (one side is light and the other one is dark), and they will take turns in placing the discs on the board which corresponds to their color. The disc of an opponent’s color on a straight line bounded by the disc you just placed and another of your disc at the end will result for the entire line to
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great works penned by William Shakespeare were actually written by the Earl of Oxford. However, author Simon Schama refused to believe this and found evidence to support that Shakespeare did actually create his own literature. The first piece of evidence is in paragraph C, where Schama explains that there are “no fewer than six surviving signatures in Shakespeare's own flowing hand.” This shows that even though his father, John Shakespeare, was illiterate, William was not. If William Shakespeare was illiterate
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Brilliant! Kenneth Branagh's version of the timeless William Shakespeare classic is a great rendition of the film, making it accessible to everyone, even those who do not like Shakespeare. Let me first say that I am a great fan of Shakespeare's works. In college I was an English literature major, with a minor in theater, and so Shakespeare is found in both. Theater people state that Shakespeare was never literature at all, which in the purpose of the plays is true, however because of the prose that
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Emily Grierson is the main character in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”. Emily is stuck in both time and space never evolving in her views, or changing her interactions with current society. Emily Grierson was an outsider, heavily limiting the town’s access to her life by remaining in her home. Emily did not seem to have a good mental state; this could have been caused by multiple things, one being her father and another being the societal pressure put onto her. Her father was abusive, it
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