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Alexander Hamilton And Tupac

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Alexander Hamilton and Tupac Shakur may seem like two very strange people to pair up together but they share many attributes. Some attributes that they both had were philosophies that changed the way people looked at things, they both wrote their way to success, and the biggest similarity they have is that they did not let where they came from stop them from becoming successful. They were also very similar because of the way that they died and because they were both very intelligent. Because of these shared attributes they have greatly enriched american culture. I believe tupac's philosophy was to change the way people viewed thugs. For ordinary people thugs were gang bangers and drug dealers, but for Tupac it was his pride and for him …show more content…

Hamilton also wrote his way out of poverty. He was a very smart young man who seized opportunities as they were presented to him. He wrote the federalist papers which helped ratify the United States constitution and also wrote many political articles.
Lastly another similarity that I found between the both of them were that no matter the circumstances that they were in they did not let where they came from stop them from becoming the successful people that they are still today and back in their time when they were alive. They both had a lot of things to overcome before they could reach where they were. For example, Hamilton had to basically grow up without a family and had to raise himself, he did have many problems in his life because of the way that he was but that was because he had to teach himself how to be an adult and he had to grow up faster than other kids his age had too. Also, Tupac was born in the ghetto where he grew up with just his mother and aunts for the beginning of his life then his mother later brought a man in who became his step father, even though they both were not in the picture very much he still had a father figure for some time in his life, but he was mostly raised by his mother and aunts. Being raised by all women as he was growing up gave him the respect for women that he so proudly states he has. Through all of these hardships, these situations just helped fuel the hunger that both these men had for success, which they both succeeded in

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