Lin Manuel Miranda's Award Winning Broadway Musical, Alexander Hamilton

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“Act your age,” a common reprimand we have all heard or been told at one point in our lives. Many people believe that getting older guarantees a higher level of maturity. However, someone’s maturity does not depend on their age, but rather on their environment and mentality. Not all children are raised in a perfect and loving family; some children are forced to “grow up” faster due to difficult family situations. Children are heavily impacted by the environment they were raised in, for it affects people’s mind psychologically, thus causing different levels of maturity in each individual. In Lin Manuel Miranda’s award winning broadway musical, Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton was orphaned at age twelve, at fourteen he was in charge of a trading