By: Avery Showell

After articulating the feedback I have received there have been many changes to my draft. Just like Art, everything does not always look how you want it or how you want other people to perceive it the first time that you make up a piece. That is why you have drafts and people to look at those drafts and give opinions. These opinions end up making drastic changes, small changes, or no changes at all. But the purpose of them are for them to spark thought, and new ideas. Ideas that can bring masterpieces and steer you to reflect on the process you took and how you can use new techniques and viewpoints in the future.

It allows your peers in the class examining your work and raising questions about aspects of the work that you may need greater clarification in. They may also offer an unbiased view, highlighting when certain things catch an audience or make sense, given the particular situation and or class. 

At first, my view on my remix was simple and dry. What it was missing was an audience catcher or something someone would actually wanted to keep clicking through. The choice to turn my 10 Dual commandments into a slideshow and or power point came from wanting to impress myself with my work and see how I could work on visual and electronic communication. I now feel like my finished project will be outgoing to those interested. After the changes I have made, I now feel more confident in making slides and power points on different topics for different subjects. The process of learning from the different parts of submission on this remix and adaptation project influenced me to find new ways to get things done. Especially seeking the new avenue of plays and on stage performances.

 

 

By: Avery Showell 

Hamilton has been the key focus point of our class, and comes with remixes and adaptations that engage different thoughts, viewpoints and changes. I want to focus on The Hamilton Mixtape and the message that lies behind it. More closely, the song “Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)” and how it portrays the life, struggles, and sacrifice that they immigrants go through daily. Keinan Abdi Warsame, Claudia Alexandra Feliciano,  Rizwan Ahmed, René Pérez Joglar, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Jeffrey Penalva did a great job of taking the song and finding lyrics that directly relate immigrants and voice there opinions and feelings through hip hop.

Immigrants enter the US as outcasts. They progress toward becoming insiders when their disparities do not  influence the ways they communicate with others, the new gateways they have for themselves and their families, and how they partake in legislative issues. I agree, immigrants should be accepted in to our United States society because they prove they are hardworking and willing to go for their own. Being a US citizen does not consequently imply that people are being accepted.it is difficult to be an insider without having legitimate status as a man from others, and in any event the possibility to be a citizen. A lot of people in the U.S don’t accept the language of immigrants especially including the social, the economic, and the political side of the United States. “Look how far I come” is a great line to exemplify how immigrants have been more than enough in society today. We often forget the fact that immigrants have helped the United States since decades ago, and when they shine we often have do not like to portray the fact that they are in fact immigrants end excelling. The Hamilton Mixtape gives immigrants a shining light which they are years short on.

By: Avery Showell

 

The writing process is different for everyone, especially with higher level of education. Not everyone writes or has the same thought process of ideas to be represented in literature. That is just the same as everyone not being able to learn the same. Alexander Hamilton writes like he is running out of time, and Avery Showell writes like he knows who he’s talking about. Sometimes, even if you don’t know what you are talking about, the energy given off by someones confidence in the ideas they provide can be convincing enough.

Personally, when I begin to start writing a paper, blog post, etc., I like to just start rambling. Not rambling by just saying stuff that does not make sense, but rambling on paper. Meaning, I write like I am having a conversation with someone, rather if it is grammatically correct or not because I know I am going to go back and edit it. The faster I can get my ideas on paper the better. I don’t see any other way that would help me write more fluently or comfortably, but I’d be open to new techniques.

Most of the time, when I’m writing, I am in my room alone. Mostly just because it is much easier to get distracted writing a paper for me, than any other homework. I know many people who like to write and listen to music, but I am better off with the TV in the background on low volume and my phone as far away from me as possible. I say my phone to that extent because I will pick up my phone every 2 minutes and it will just make the whole process slower and take me longer to finish and meet the deadline (which I hate) that I procrastinated on the whole time. Along with my phone, Fortnite has been proven to take away at least three hours out of my time to get work done. But when I finish writing, I definitely go right back to playing the game.

Hamilton-Burr correspondences

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

1804

Wikisource, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Burr_duel_correspondences

 

Hamilton-Burr correspondences

Burr to Hamilton, June 18, 1804[edit]

N York 18 June 1804

Sir,

I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper which, though apparently published some time ago, has but very recently come to my knowledge.^[1] Mr. Van Ness, who does me the favor to deliver this, will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention.^[2]

You must perceive, Sir, the necessity of a prompt and unqualified acknowledgement or denial of the use of any expressions which could warrant the assertions of Dr. Cooper.^[3]

I have the honor to be

Your Obdt. S^t

1. Burr

Hamilton to Burr, June 20, 1804[edit]

N York 20 June 1804

Sir:

I have maturely reflected on the subject of your letter^[4] of the 18th Instant, and the more I have reflected, the more I have become convinced that I could not without manifest impropriety make the avowal or disavowal which you seem to think necessary.^[5]

The clause pointed out by Mr. Van Ness is in these terms^[6]: “I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr.”^[7] To endeavor to discover the meaning of this declaration, I was obliged to seek in the antecedent part of the letter for the opinion to which it referred, as having been already disclosed. I found it in these words: “Genl. Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of Government.”^[8] The language of Dr. Cooper plainly implies that he considered this opinion of you, which he attributes to me, as a despicable one; but he affirms that I have expressed some other still more despicable; without, however, mentioning to whom, when or where. ‘Tis evident that the phrase “still more despicable” admits of infinite shades from very light to very dark. How am I to judge of the degree intended. Or how should I annex any precise idea to language so vague?

Between Gentlemen despicable and still more despicable are not worth the pains of a distinction.^[9] When, therefore, you do not interrogate me as to the opinion which is specifically ascribed to me^[10], I must conclude that you view it as within the limits to which the animadversions of political opponents, upon each other, may justifiably extend; and consequently as not warranting the idea of it which Dr. Cooper appears to entertain. If so, what precise inference could you draw as a guide for your future conduct, were I to acknowledge that I had expressed an opinion of you, still more despicable than the one which is particularized? How could you be sure that even this opinion had exceeded the bounds which you would yourself deem admissible between political opponents?

But I forbear further comment on the embarrassment to which the requisition you have made naturally leads. The occasion forbids a more ample illustration, though nothing would be more easy than to pursue it.

Repeating that I can not reconcile it with propriety to make the acknowledgment or denial you desire, I will add that I deem it inadmissible on principle, to consent to be interrogated as to the justness of the inferences which may be drawn by others, from whatever I may have said of a political opponent in the course of a fifteen years competition. If there were no other objection to it, this is sufficient, that it would tend to expose my sincerity and delicacy to injurious imputations from every person who may at any time have conceived that import of my expressions differently from what I may then have intended, or may afterwards recollect.

I stand ready to avow or disavow promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared to any gentleman. More than this can not fitly be expected from me; and especially it can not reasonably be expected that I shall enter into an explanation upon a basis so vague as that which you have adopted. I trust upon more reflection you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not, I can only regret the circumstances and must abide the consequences.

The publication of Dr. Cooper was never seen by me ‘till after the receipt of your letter.

Sir, I have the honor to be

Your Obdt. S^t

1. Hamilton

Burr to Hamilton, June 21, 1804[edit]

N York 21 June, 1804.

Sir,

Your letter of the 20th inst. has been this day received.^[11] Having considered it attentively, I regret to find in it nothing of that sincerity and delicacy which you profess to value.^[12]

Political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rigid adherence to the laws of honor and the rules of decorum. I neither claim such privilege nor indulge it in others.

The common sense of mankind affixes to the epithet adopted by Dr. Cooper the idea of dishonor. It has been publicly applied to me under the sanction of your name. The question is not whether he has understood the meaning of the word or has used it according to syntax and with grammatical accuracy, but whether you have authorized this application either directly or by uttering expression or opinion derogatory to my honor. The time “when” is in your own knowledge but no way material to me^[13], as the calumny has now just been disclosed so as to become the subject of my notice and as the effect is present and palpable.

Your letter has furnished me with new reasons for requiring a definite reply.

I have the honor to be

Your Obdt. S^t

1. Burr

Hamilton to Burr, June 22, 1804[edit]

N York 22 June 1804

Sir,

Your first letter, in a style too peremptory, made a demand, in my opinion, unprecedented and unwarrantable.^[14] My answer, pointing out the embarrassment, gave you an opportunity to take a less exceptionable course. You have not chosen to do it, but by your last letter, received this day, containing expressions indecorous and improper, you have increased the difficulties to explanation, intrinsically incident to the nature of your application^[15].

If by a “definite reply” you mean the direct avowal or disavowal required in your first letter, I have no other answer to give than that which has already been given. If you mean anything different admitting of greater latitude, it is requisite you should explain.

I have the honor to be, Sir

Your Obdt. S^t

1. Hamilton

Van Ness to Pendleton, June 26, 1804[edit]

Sir,

The letter which you yesterday delivered me and your subsequent communication in Col. Burr’s opinion evince no disposition on the part of Genl. Hamilton to come to a satisfactory accommodation. The injury complained of and the reparation expected are so definitely expressed in his (Col. B.’s) letter of the 21st Inst. that there is not perceived a necessity for further explanation on his part. The difficulty that would result from confining the inquiry to any particular times and occasions must be manifest. The denial of a specified conversation only, would leave strong implications that on other occasions improper language had been used. When and where injurious expressions and opinions have been uttered by Genl. Hamilton must be best known to him and of him only does Col. Burr think it proper to enquire.

No denial or declaration will be satisfactory unless it be general so as to wholly exclude the idea that rumors derogatory to Col. Burr’s honor can have originated with Genl. Hamilton or have been fairly inferred from anything he has said. A definite reply to a requisition of this nature is demanded in Col. Burr’s letter of the 21st Inst. This being refused, invites the alternative alluded to in Genl. H.’s letter of the 20th Inst. It was demanded by the position in which the controversy was placed by Genl. H. on the 22nd Inst., and I was immediately furnished with a communication demanding a personal interview.

The necessity of this measure has not in the opinion of Col. Burr been diminished by the General’s last letter or any subsequent communication which has been received and I am again instructed to deliver you a message as soon as it may be convenient for you to receive it. I beg, therefore, you will have the politeness to inform me at what hour I shall wait on you.

Your most obt. & very hum. Servt.

1. P. Van Ness

 

 

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^[1] Burr to Hamilton telling Hamilton that he sent a letter that was published a while ago and is just realizing the he has done so.

^[2] Mr. Van Ness is making sure the message is served to Hamilton properly and will explain the importance of why the letter needs to be seen.

^[3] Burr wants Hamilton to know the importance and the contribution of Dr. Cooper’s belief.

^[4] Hamilton has read and reviewed the letter that he received from Burr to fit his knowledge and thought process.

^[5]Hamilton has turned out to be persuaded that he couldn’t without show indecency and make the acknowledgment or repudiation which Burr assumes vital.

^[6] Mr. Van Ness pointed what he thought was important about Burr.

^[7] General Hamilton has expressed how he felt about Burr which was his opinion to Mr. Van Ness.

^[8]The General and Judge have identified Burr to be a risky man, and one who should not to be allowed to hold importance in any aspect of legislature.

^[9] Hamilton tries to inform Burr about how he feels by acknowledging that between gentlemen terrible and still more awful are not worth the torments of a qualification.

^[10] Hamilton has deep feelings on the position he stands for and which opinions were brought to him does not mean his view has changed.

^[11] Burr announces that he has received the letter from Hamilton.

^[12] Burr having thought of it as mindfully, he laments to discover in it nothing of that earnestness and delicacy which Hamilton claims.

^[13] Burr feels that he just wants Hamilton to understand, no matter when he understands, but just that he gets it.

^[14] Hamilton expresses to Burr that his first letter, in a way that is excessively authoritative, made a request, and he believes is phenomenal and will never happen.

^[15] Hamilton feels like he opened up to Burr and he did not take his offer to empathize with him but rather did he insult him. He expresses that he is writing the feelings of the previous letter the day he acknowledges the letter.

By: Avery Showell

 

I want to take the time to acknowledge and talk about the connection between Hamilton and the white-washed society we live in today. Material for generations has been molded to fit the norms of the world today,  which is controlled by the white man and depresses the growth and evolution of Black people as a whole. So most evidently, literature will be funneled the same way ideas are. They do not want you to know too much, but tell you enough for you to feel educated on certain topics. This is where the educators who teach material about this touchy topic come in. One can try and make it as not “white washed” as they think to reach students, but how real can you really make the connections between the white washed culture Hamilton tries to expose and black students who experience being in the society the most if the instructor is not Black his/her self. Therefore, there are certain terms and names that a white person simply can not use, for example the term “Black or Brown People” and entitling us to an income bracket for lack of interest in a certain area of Art.

Alexander Hamilton written by Lin-Manuel Miranda displays a great value of the hip hop culture and how it can move, inspire, and generate new ideas in people and generations. Miranda shows how Black people are a corner stone in history even though the society we live in tries to give us a cap on how successful we can be as a race. The simple theme of hip hop or the use of, shows what is actually an avenue to reach other groups and audiences to often story-tell, rhyme, and release the demons of the challenges Black people face, and have dealt with, for many centuries and continuously to this day.    

 

 

 

Hamilton–Burr duel correspondences

By: Avery Showell

The historical annotation project has been a process and ongoing process. There have been areas where you learn new things about research in general. Most evidently when using different resources to gather information you will be introduced to new material and techniques. Finding new sources and reliable authors have upsides and down sides. One upside being there are many sources and writers with the credentials to be considered reliable, but there is also a downside to where most sources you find will not be as useful as you may think or even be helpful at all.

For my research I chose the historical document I used the Hamilton-Burr Correspondences. These letters are written and conversed by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. This document was published in 1804 and you can find it many places on the internet. When approaching the research to this topic I try to stay as open minded as I can and accept the historical legacy that I am researching. The document seemed like the most intriguing to me to have such a direct document to read. Letters of the past are more like the text messages of today and when you think of it like that and relate it to your present day life you find appreciation for historical context. The conversations through letters are the most important in whole. Simply because it is documented and can be examined for deeper meaning.

To understand the document you need research that includes insight from other peer sources and experts. There are many experts that have diagnosed the document before and they offer many insights to the text broken down. There are challenges with anything, so the challenges that have arose with this assignment is mostly time management and and structure. A simple solution that I have found to this problem is time management schedules for each class and assignments. So then I can see what I need to do and know how much work I have to complete on each assignment.

Hamilton-Burr correspondences

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

1804

Wikisource, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Burr_duel_correspondences

 

Hamilton-Burr correspondences

Burr to Hamilton, June 18, 1804[edit]

N York 18 June 1804

Sir,

I send for your perusal a letter signed Ch. D. Cooper which, though apparently published some time ago, has but very recently come to my knowledge. Mr. Van Ness, who does me the favor to deliver this, will point out to you that clause of the letter to which I particularly request your attention.

You must perceive, Sir, the necessity of a prompt and unqualified acknowledgement or denial of the use of any expressions which could warrant the assertions of Dr. Cooper.

I have the honor to be
Your Obdt. S^t

A. Burr

Hamilton to Burr, June 20, 1804[edit]

N York 20 June 1804

Sir:

I have maturely reflected on the subject of your letter of the 18th Instant, and the more I have reflected, the more I have become convinced that I could not without manifest impropriety make the avowal or disavowal which you seem to think necessary.

The clause pointed out by Mr. Van Ness is in these terms: “I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr.” To endeavor to discover the meaning of this declaration, I was obliged to seek in the antecedent part of the letter for the opinion to which it referred, as having been already disclosed. I found it in these words: “Genl. Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of Government.” The language of Dr. Cooper plainly implies that he considered this opinion of you, which he attributes to me, as a despicable one; but he affirms that I have expressed some other still more despicable; without, however, mentioning to whom, when or where. ‘Tis evident that the phrase “still more despicable” admits of infinite shades from very light to very dark. How am I to judge of the degree intended. Or how should I annex any precise idea to language so vague?

Between Gentlemen despicable and still more despicable are not worth the pains of a distinction. When, therefore, you do not interrogate me as to the opinion which is specifically ascribed to me, I must conclude that you view it as within the limits to which the animadversions of political opponents, upon each other, may justifiably extend; and consequently as not warranting the idea of it which Dr. Cooper appears to entertain. If so, what precise inference could you draw as a guide for your future conduct, were I to acknowledge that I had expressed an opinion of you, still more despicable than the one which is particularized? How could you be sure that even this opinion had exceeded the bounds which you would yourself deem admissible between political opponents?

But I forbear further comment on the embarrassment to which the requisition you have made naturally leads. The occasion forbids a more ample illustration, though nothing would be more easy than to pursue it.

Repeating that I can not reconcile it with propriety to make the acknowledgment or denial you desire, I will add that I deem it inadmissible on principle, to consent to be interrogated as to the justness of the inferences which may be drawn by others, from whatever I may have said of a political opponent in the course of a fifteen years competition. If there were no other objection to it, this is sufficient, that it would tend to expose my sincerity and delicacy to injurious imputations from every person who may at any time have conceived that import of my expressions differently from what I may then have intended, or may afterwards recollect.

I stand ready to avow or disavow promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared to any gentleman. More than this can not fitly be expected from me; and especially it can not reasonably be expected that I shall enter into an explanation upon a basis so vague as that which you have adopted. I trust upon more reflection you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not, I can only regret the circumstances and must abide the consequences.

The publication of Dr. Cooper was never seen by me ‘till after the receipt of your letter.

Sir, I have the honor to be
Your Obdt. S^t

A. Hamilton

Burr to Hamilton, June 21, 1804[edit]

N York 21 June, 1804.

Sir,

Your letter of the 20th inst. has been this day received. Having considered it attentively, I regret to find in it nothing of that sincerity and delicacy which you profess to value.

Political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rigid adherence to the laws of honor and the rules of decorum. I neither claim such privilege nor indulge it in others.

The common sense of mankind affixes to the epithet adopted by Dr. Cooper the idea of dishonor. It has been publicly applied to me under the sanction of your name. The question is not whether he has understood the meaning of the word or has used it according to syntax and with grammatical accuracy, but whether you have authorized this application either directly or by uttering expression or opinion derogatory to my honor. The time “when” is in your own knowledge but no way material to me, as the calumny has now just been disclosed so as to become the subject of my notice and as the effect is present and palpable.

Your letter has furnished me with new reasons for requiring a definite reply.

I have the honor to be
Your Obdt. S^t

A. Burr

Hamilton to Burr, June 22, 1804[edit]

N York 22 June 1804

Sir,

Your first letter, in a style too peremptory, made a demand, in my opinion, unprecedented and unwarrantable. My answer, pointing out the embarrassment, gave you an opportunity to take a less exceptionable course. You have not chosen to do it, but by your last letter, received this day, containing expressions indecorous and improper, you have increased the difficulties to explanation, intrinsically incident to the nature of your application.

If by a “definite reply” you mean the direct avowal or disavowal required in your first letter, I have no other answer to give than that which has already been given. If you mean anything different admitting of greater latitude, it is requisite you should explain.

I have the honor to be, Sir
Your Obdt. S^t

A. Hamilton

Van Ness to Pendleton, June 26, 1804[edit]

Sir,

The letter which you yesterday delivered me and your subsequent communication in Col. Burr’s opinion evince no disposition on the part of Genl. Hamilton to come to a satisfactory accommodation. The injury complained of and the reparation expected are so definitely expressed in his (Col. B.’s) letter of the 21st Inst. that there is not perceived a necessity for further explanation on his part. The difficulty that would result from confining the inquiry to any particular times and occasions must be manifest. The denial of a specified conversation only, would leave strong implications that on other occasions improper language had been used. When and where injurious expressions and opinions have been uttered by Genl. Hamilton must be best known to him and of him only does Col. Burr think it proper to enquire.

No denial or declaration will be satisfactory unless it be general so as to wholly exclude the idea that rumors derogatory to Col. Burr’s honor can have originated with Genl. Hamilton or have been fairly inferred from anything he has said. A definite reply to a requisition of this nature is demanded in Col. Burr’s letter of the 21st Inst. This being refused, invites the alternative alluded to in Genl. H.’s letter of the 20th Inst. It was demanded by the position in which the controversy was placed by Genl. H. on the 22nd Inst., and I was immediately furnished with a communication demanding a personal interview.

The necessity of this measure has not in the opinion of Col. Burr been diminished by the General’s last letter or any subsequent communication which has been received and I am again instructed to deliver you a message as soon as it may be convenient for you to receive it. I beg, therefore, you will have the politeness to inform me at what hour I shall wait on you.

Your most obt. & very hum. Servt.

W. P. Van Ness

Hi everyone! My name is Avery Showell, an business adminsistration major. If i stay on the expected graduation course I am on now I will graduate in 2021. I am currently enrolled in the in-person section of the English 1101 summer course.

To be honest, this is my second time taking English 1102 after dropping it my second semester enrolled at Tech. With my previous history of the course I have a little familiarity with WOVEN text and the different types of modes. The most enjoyable part of communication to me would probably be verbal because it is the most straight forward and easy to understand. On the other hand, the most challenging would probably have to be nonverbal. Mostly because sometimes you have to decipher the meanings of different topics and ideas from using confusing documents. With that being a struggle I would hope to improve on it and be fluent in that area of WOVEN.

Before enrolling in this course I was very unfamiliar with the theme and am still learning the basic concepts of the theme. Hamilton seems to be a classic that I have never heard about but I am sure it will prove to be enjoyable. i don not watch musicals but hip hop is a part of my everyday life so I am confident that I will find something to relate to.

Outside of class, I am a safety for the Georgia Tech football team and and a Red-shirt Freshman. I grew up in Atlanta and have played football since the time I can remember at seven years old. I grew up playing football, basketball, baseball, and I also ran track. Being able to juggle multiple responsibilities has always been a task for me so this class should help bring interest to having to multi task.