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1) What are some of the different viewpoints on the musical 

Hamilton that
journalist Katherine J Igoebrings to light in this article? 

Opinions are divided some people see the musical in bad way and some people
see this in good way “This is—as some critics are now pointing out—the
beloved musical's biggest strength, and also its biggest challenge.”
The people who have a positive view of musical Hamilton see effort of the
creation of the musical and the message that creator of musical wanted to
convey.
But some other people see it as a outrageous.
“The most notable argument being made: That a number of the white historical
figures in the musical, including perhaps Hamilton himself, owned slaves. This
is something Miranda addresses obliquely in the musical but
that Hamilton doesn't fully reckon with (although, again, the recasting changes
the nature of the story they're telling, so it's a complex reframing).”

2) What arguments does Ava Duvernay use to both criticize and praise the
show? 
She criticize the fact that the show is about Alexander Hamilton how
bought/owned slaves “Believed in manumission, not abolition. Wrote some
violent crap about Indians. Believed that only elites held political power and that
there were no term limits. And banking innovation has murky roots.”
3) At the beginning of the article, the journalist notes that "we are now living in
a very different time: Hamilton originally came out in 2015, during the last years
of the Obama presidency."  What does this statement imply about why
audiences might have been more critical of Hamilton in 2020 than they were in
2015 ? What changes in the political climate during those five years affected
how the public reacted to the show?
The political climate change because of the election of Donald Trump, the
government changed from a Democratic party to a Republican party.

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