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- 6521: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry
- ... Barons or Captains of Industry Since the gilded age of American history historians have debated weather or not the great industrial leader who put our counrty back together in the torent years following the civil war were robber barons or captains of industry. Three of these great men who organized industrial America and changed the American way of life are J. D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Each of these men took their own level of morality and individual business startageis into the world of industry. It was this morality and their personal business strategies that have lead historian to classify these three men as either robber barons or captains of industry. Perhaps the most famous of these three ... his fortune in the oil industry. It was also in the oil industry that he earned his title of robber baron. Rockefeller is known for his oil monopoly which at once controlled 95% of the world oil market. His oil business started with refining. Rockefeller knew that oil drilling was very expensive and he figured that he would let some one else spend millions to blindly drill into the ground ...
- 6522: The Roaring 20s
- ... dancing with the big bands. Other ways of entertainment were by newspapers and books, One of the novels was "Strange Fugitives". Back in the twenties Canadains authors produced 50 best sellins Fashion When the first world war ended a new stage was set for a new fashion. Such signs of fashion change was already happening. The loosening of fit and gradual downward movement of te wasteline. In the twenties women could say ... hard on poor people and good for rich people, but the twenties were more than two different sides, it was a decade of great joy and happenings. They were in a land of freedom of war and beauty, which the Group of Seven shows in their paintings. Besides, of all the problems that arose, the Canadian were proud to be in the twenties.
- 6523: The Progressive Era
- The Progressive Era Progressivism in the United States took place in the period between the Spanish-American War and the entry of the United States into the great World War. It was a time for change in America in all walks of life, as well as a time for reform. It was marked by Theodore Roosevelt's 7 and a half years in office, ...
- 6524: Illuminating the Path of Progress
- ... the canal and played near his father's shingle business. When Alva was a child, he had scarlet fever. The fever damaged his hearing and delayed his entrance into school. Edison was curious about the world around him and always tried to teach himself through reading and experiments. Alva spent three years in home schooling. He was taught by his mother. He later returned to school but left at age twelve ... His next project took him back to the field he knew best, electricity. He improved the electric battery, making it last longer and ensuring it was less easily damaged when overcharged. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, invited him to become president of an advisory group of scientists. Edison's contribution came through his scientific work on torpedo detection methods and ...
- 6525: Education In Developing Countr
- ... over 60% now, the number of children not in school is still continuously rising. The two journals from The Economist both agreed that education is the first step towards development and economic growth. Both the World Bank and the IMF has demanded an increase in education spending as part of its relief effort to some of these developing countries. It is up to the countries themselves to spend their budgets on ... part of a community and the whole of it benefits." Says Amrtya Sen, India's Nobel-prize winning economist. And Africa has accepted that belief, especially after seeing how education has affected Japan after the war, with its economic growth; and how education help lower its fertility rate in Bangladesh. With education, parents can be more aware of diseases and raise more healthy children, while farmers will yield bigger crops. If ... do not get education of any kind. The lack of resources is the main reason that African countries do not spend as much on education as they should, although aid donors and IMF and the World Bank have required governments to spend on education, some are still spending money on defense rather and school. It has been proven that richer countries do not automatically have better education systems. For example, ...
- 6526: Benjamin Banneker
- ... to help farmers construct their mills. By 1774 the village of Ellicots Mills had been founded. Ellicot’s wise decision to grow wheat became a key source of food for American troops in the Revolutionary War. Banneker traveled on horseback to Philadelphia in 1776 to attend the Second Constitutional Congress. There he witnessed the future U.S. president Thomas Jefferson submit the Declaration of Independence. Banneker returned to his farm inspired to help in the war effort. Following Ellicot’s lead, he planted wheat for soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Neighbors often commented that Banneker must have been lazy because he slept well into the morning when others were out tending their farms. What they didn’t know was that he spent nearly every ...
- 6527: Gender Communication
- ... and gave a set time and he understood me and we did not have any misunderstandings. ANALYZE The difference in the way the genders interact arises from the fact that men and women view the world differently. The sexes have distinct viewpoints and attitudes towards life, they think differently and therefore do not have the same ideas of what is essential. A woman's personality, which includes our views and our ... conversational style is above all interpreted as aggressive and dominant from a female point of view. From a male viewpoint - challenging each other makes conversation interesting and even enjoyable for them. EVALUATE Women approach the world as individuals in a network of interpersonal connections, where everyone seeks to establish community, to avoid giving the impression of superiority and to support each other. The aim of communication is to create and maintain ... as well as give support and confirmation in a conversation. During a conversation a women concentrates on whether their receiver remains distant or tries to get closer. Men, on the other hand, look upon the world as a place where it counts to achieve and maintain a high status, to stand up against other people and to preserve independence. Both styles of communication have positive and negative aspects. It only ...
- 6528: Hitler, Nazis, and The National Socialist German Workers' Party
- ... out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was a product of his times... for many Austrians and Germans were prejudiced against the Jews ... most of the evils heaped upon it. The fact is that Hitler's anti-Semitism was self-inflicted obstacle to his political success. The Jews, like other Germans, were shocked by the discovery that the war had not been fought to a standstill, as they were led to believe in November 1918, but that Germany had , in fact, been defeated and was to be treated as a vanquished country. Had Hitler ... naked and bewildered, were shoved into a line. Their guards ordered them forward, and flogged those who hung back. The doors to the gas chambers were locked behind them. It was all over quickly. The war came home to Germany. Scarcely had Hitler recovered from the shock of the July 20 bombing when he was faced with the loss of France and Belgium and of great conquests in the East. ...
- 6529: Fahrenheit 451: The Books And Symbol Of The Phoenix
- ... in the sky? They float with such elegance in the sky, flapping each wing with delicacy. Montag must have felt this about the books in the story , Farenheit 451. Books were forbidden in Montag’s world because they were thought to bring chaos among the people of his society, but in actual reality, it would have brought freedom of oneself to think. Throughout the story, books are constantly compared to as books and connected to the symbol of the phoenix. The world of Fahrenheit 451 is deprived of books, one of the greatest creations of man in our society. Firemen are suppose to set books on fire rather than prevent them because people believe they pose a ... They believe that order and peace is the best way to keep happiness. Books are burned immediately whenever they are found anywhere. In fact, it is a “crime” to own a book in Montag’s world. Books are often compared to as birds throughout Fahrenheit 451. “A book lit like a white pigeon in his hands. In the dim wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a ...
- 6530: The Romantically Impaired Pruf
- ... century was a complex age(Martin 423). J. Alfred Prufrock is no Hamlet. He is a hopeless romantic at best, T.S. Eliot's poster child for 20th century aristocratic society. Prufrock lives in a world where art and music have become the idle conversation of dilettante women who are spiritually, sexually, and intellectually dead, but for whom the meaning and life of art have long since been drained in the ... be time." Prufrock uses time as an excuse to remain comfortable in his undisturbed universe. By opening the fourth stanza with: "And indeed there will be time," Eliot echoes the memorable line: "Had we but world enough and time' from Andrew Marvell's seductive poem, "To His Coy Mistress." Ironically, Prufrock does not feel compelled to seize the day(Pagnattaro 108). Prufrock repeats his conviction that "indeed there will be time ... not only demonstrates Prufrock's cowardice, but reveals the same shallowness as the dilettante women "talking of Michelangelo." Ultimately, Prufrock's paradigm shifts from his "universe" to his "digestion." The third theme is one of world weariness, which is begun in the line: "For I have known them all already, known them all." This theme underscores his depression from the life he leads. This is shown most effectively in the ...
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