John Hays Hammond, JR. John Hammond was one of the greatest electrical and mechanical inventors of his time. The things he invented during his lifetime impacted history a great deal. According to John Pettibone, John Hays Hammond, Jr. was born in 1888 in San Francisco, California (Pettibone 1). Most of his life Hammond was known as Jack. He was the second son and namesake of a world-famous mining engineer, who was the friend, confidant, and almost running mate of William Howard Taft. Jack’s father
John Jay was born in New York, New York on December 12, 1745. John was the sixth of seven children who survived to adulthood in the Jay family. Shortly after his birth however they moved from Manhattan to Rye in order to provide a better life for his elder siblings, two of which were blind and another two suffered from mental handicaps. John Jay accomplished a lot when he was alive, some of these things include serving as the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, drafting New York’s first
John Jay was born in New York City on December 12, 1745. John’s parents were Peter Jay and Mary Anna Van Courtland. His maternal family was of solid Dutch American background. They were the Van Cortlandts. Jay’s grandfather was Jacobus Van Cortlandt that served New York City twice as its mayor. Jay attended King’s College, which after independence became Columbia College and eventually Columbia University. As college graduation getting closer, he clerked as a law clerk, passed the New York Bar exam
John Smith, Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman all spend their lives trying for something extraordinary. Gatsby and Loman seek to fulfill the very dream which brought John Smith to America, the American dream. A dream in which one comes to American and preserves themselves and " may quickly grow rich" (Descriptions of New England). However, all fail to realize that the American Dream would not be a dream if all could achieve it, and more importantly that a dream by its very nature is not real . In John
John Jay was born in New York City on December 12, 1745 and was a self devoted leader that help the United States get to where it is today. He served a very important role in the Founding Fathers establishment as well as bringing overall greatness to the country. He devoted himself to the American Revolution as well as becoming the first Chief Justice of the United States. Serving in the Continental Congress, and becoming president of the congress gave him great power and confidence within himself
become familiar to Brazilian students at European universities in the late 18th century. At the time this document was created, Thomas Jefferson was the United States envoy to France. In Marseilles on May 4, 1787, Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to John Jay who was the United States' Secretary of State. Based on information given early in the letter, Jefferson was in the area for the purpose of gathering information on matters pertaining to commerce and to learn more about the agriculture of European
the whole United States, This is the CIA (or central intelligence agency or association). The job I want to do their is to be an agent, a agent at the CIA collects data from around the world to help protect the united states from an attack. And John Jay College of Criminal Justice and their Criminal Justice (Crime Control and Prevention) (BA) program are the best way I get this knowledge to be a CIA agent, and the reason I want to do this is because I will be helping and protecting millions of
would be necessary.” As to the question of what influence Aristotle may have had on the architects of the Federalist Papers, it seems clear that at the very least, his writings contain ideas that are in no small way shared by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. While it is always debatable as to the extent of influence the Federalist Papers had in the final success of the ratification of the new constitution, they remain a crucial element in the understanding of the Constitution of the United States and provide
Did the Founding Fathers actually create the constitution to help us? Alternatively, did they create the constitution just to protect their beliefs and so on? The Founding Fathers was an elite group that sought to create a constitution for their own interests. Several members apart from this strategic group agreed to create the constitution only for their selfish ambitions. The Founding Fathers created the constitution rather than amend the Articles of Confederation. Just because some decline the
However, before this Constitution could be put into effect it had to have the approval of at least nine states. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote the Federalist papers to explain and defend the Constitution in hopes that it might help convince the states to approve its ratification. Two of the most well-known papers, both written by Madison, were numbers ten and
United People: The Federalist Papers and the National Idea, author Ed Millican dissects not only The Federalist piece by piece, but scrutinizes numerous works of other authors in regards to the papers written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. As a result, a strong conclusion asserts that the motives of The Federalist was to create a sturdy nation-state but above all, that American polity is far more complex than pluralism and a free-market economy. The very last statement in the book
young men: Alexander Hamilton of New York, age 32, and James Madison of Virginia, age 36. Both men sometimes wrote four papers in a single week. An older scholar, John Jay, later named as first chief justice of the Supreme Court, wrote five of the papers. Hamilton, who had been an aide to Washington during the Revolution, asked Madison and Jay to help him in this project. Their purpose was to persuade the New York convention to ratify the just-drafted Constitution. They would separately write a series
The writers of “The Federalist Papers,” Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, strongly opposed the oftentimes negative effects of factionalism on government efficiency. Within “The Federalist Paper No. 10,” Madison explains factionalism, what causes it, its effect on American society and how to limit the damage cause by opposing factions. The nation’s original constitution was being re-evaluated by the various delegates present during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Articles
Although national political parties were considered “divisive and disloyal”, the first two-party system of the United States, Hamiltonian-Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans, emerged during George Washington’s administration. The political division was later sharpened with Jay’s Treaty. They differ from each other in various aspects. Nevertheless, the political turbulent during the 1790s greatly expanded the public sphere. The Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, believed in supremacy of
duration. It aided the fledgling nation produce a whole and agreeably sturdy main federal government: Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist which wrote fifty-six papers, and James Madison, a Democratic Republican politician who composed twenty-one papers; John Jay likewise contributed with the writing of five documents. Every paper was composed under the pen name Publius. Nevertheless, today it is understood that it was these 3 men that were the genius behind the works. Hamilton and Madison faithfully worked
“Argument Description” and the “Argument Analysis” is that in this particular essay, we are now required to find the implications of the writer’s claim and then form our own argument. I wrote my argument analysis over an essay called “Coatesville” by John Jay Chapman. Once again, I had to identify the primary and secondary argument for the essay. The primary and secondary claims for this paper are that we are all guilty and that we need to have a mass revival. I had to provide some evidence from the text
This 2006 article by Ed John Merriman and Jay Winter, titled “The Nobel Prize,” is about the history and importance of the Nobel Prize, and how it works. To understand the history of the Nobel Prize, we must start with the death of the Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel was known for his work with chemicals and explosives, and was actually the inventor of dynamite. Upon providing dynamite to the world, solely for the use of mining, he found his creation misused for violence, a new war tool that was used
power whatever; such in that time will be its popularity, wealth and resources," stated by George Washington in response to demonstrators over the Jay Treaty. 1 Washington's remark was regarding the public's uproar following the release of information on the status of the discord with Great Britain. The people had just been informed of the contents of the Jay Treaty which were: 1) Britain agreed to give up the fur posts in American territory, 2) Britain also agreed to submit to arbitration the questions
events leading up to the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America as well as the unification of the states. This historical narrative centers on four prominent politicians, George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, who are credited with creating the American republic. These statesmen shared many commonalities as they were all deeply invested in the American Revolution, found deficiencies within the Articles of Confederation, and yearned for a modified constitutional
was addressed by signing a negotiation, the Jay treaty, between U.S and England. On the other hand, France felt being betrayed by the so called “Neutrality” and its agreement with England, for France had helped America substantially during the American Revolution, and the confederated government had signed an alliance in 1778 promising aid if France were ever under attack. In the election of 1796, Federalist obtained majority in the congress and John Adams became the president. Adam’s continued