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financial and public administration systems we use today (Chernow, 2004). His leadership helped transform a fledgling assortment of individual states into a unified sovereign democracy. Qualities of Transformational Leaders Belle Nicolai of Bocconi University, writing in the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, identifies four characteristics of transformational leaders: 1. Inspirational Motivation 2. Idealized Influence 3. Intellectually Stimulation 4. Individualized Consideration First

Carly Stein Founding Brothers Notes AP US History Chapter 1: The Duel • Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had a fight on July 11, 1804 in Weehawken NJ. It was a fair duel, but unfortunately Hamilton died. Burr killed Hamilton in their duel • People thought of Burr as a cold blooded murderer, so in a way Burr died too from a bad reputation • Hamilton didn’t want to fight Burr, but he couldn’t turn down a duel • Hamilton thought there was a possibility that he would die, so before

cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression (Inaugural Addresses, 1989).” Jefferson was not alone in this thinking. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and others understood that the unbridled power of the majority, which is the life-blood of a democracy, could be easily used to ignore or degrade the rights of a minority group. The framers of our nation intended for the protection

Have you ever watched the T.V. show “Scandal”? Scandal is a T.V. show about an African American lawyer named Olivia Pope. Ms. Pope has been to some of the best schools in the world and is the owner of “Olivia Pope and Associates” employed by four of her best friends. Ms. Pope was the campaign manager for “Fitzgerald Grant III” who got him elected and won him the presidency. But, the whole campaign trail they were having an affair. Also “Being Mary Jane” is a T.V. show about yet another African

The content in “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers” stays true to its title because it truly is not “politically correct” in any way, shape or form. In the introduction, author Brion McClanahan writes, “This book intends to restore a bit of our patrimony, to reconnect us with the greatest political thinkers in our history.” (5) Section one of this book begins with identifying commonly believed myths as the author seeks to contradict these myths with more accurate, historical

On June 2010 Bart Weetjens shared with his audience how he trains rats to sniff out land mines. Land mines still exists in 70 developing countries today. Land mines do tremendous harm to the people of these countries because they are denied access to their homes. It could also so cause serious bodily harm as well as psychological duress, and even worse, death. No one knows exactly hominy land mines still exists in the world, but what we do know is that they are killing innocent civilians. Weediness

lessons for our own time. The plain, Honest men: The making of the American Constitution is a memoir book. The author of the book Plain, Honest Men: The making of the American Constitution is Richard Beeman. Richard Beeman is a history professor at a university. Beeman has written former books on the history of Revolutionary American. Dr. Beeman wrote eight books and dozens of articles on U.S. political and constitutional history, winning the George Washington Book Prize for Plain Honest Men: The Making

written other books about the Revolutionary generation. He attended and earned his B.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1965. He went on to pursue his education and received a Master of Arts, a Master of Philosophy, and a Ph.D from Yale University. After serving in the U.S. Army, he taught at West Point then became a history professor at Mount Holyoke College. As starting off as a professor he served as dean of faculty for ten years, and received the Ford Foundation Chair in American History

from 1787 to 1789. The first source that will be evaluated in depth is Ron Chernow’s book “Alexander Hamilton” which was published in 2005. The origin of this source is valuable because Chernow is a historian and writer who graduated from Yale university, Pembroke College, and Cambridge. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the American History Book Prize and has written many books about the founding fathers and early republic, indicating his extensive knowledge on the subject. The purpose

debate until this day. Although Jefferson’s ideas were significant to America, many of Hamilton’s philosophy still holds in today’s government. Alexander Hamilton was born in Charlestown, Nevis, in the West Indies on January 11, 1757 (or 1755), to James Hamilton and Rachel