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Andrew Carnegie 2
Number of Words: 1226 / Number of Pages: 5
... of steel. With this recognition, he resigned and started the Keystone Bridge Company in 1865. He built a steel-rail mill, and bought out a small steel company. By 1888, he had a large plant. Later on he sold his Carnegie Steel Company to J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel Company after a serious, bloody union strike.
He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he crushed their unions. The richest man in the world, he railed against privilege. A generous philanthropist, he slashed the wages of the workers who made him rich. By this time, Carnegie was an established, successful millionaire. He was a gre ...
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William Wodsworth
Number of Words: 597 / Number of Pages: 3
... 186, 293-294) Also, both describe the heads of the daffodils, instead of say, the tops, or buds. The difference in this is, however, that Dorothy Wordsworth has her daffodils "rest [ing] their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness" (Norton, 293) while William Wordsworth, in a quite different vein, has his daffodils "Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance," which is also another reference to the dancing of the daffodils. (Norton, 186)
As for which rendition of this minor event I prefer, I must say that I find Dorothy Wordsworth's description much better. She seems to speak m ...
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Horace Mann
Number of Words: 661 / Number of Pages: 3
... control of schools.
Mann thought that education was a right that was passed on from generation to generation. Denying children this right was horrible to Mann. Today in the United States, education of the public is seen as a right and is partaken in by countless young people every year. thought that if children were taught well they would make good goverrment officials.
Mann thought that schools must emphasize moral, civic, and cultural values. These ideas are what schools try to accomplish today. Mann believed in a common program in schools that would educate everyone. He thought that common scho ...
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Robert Stevenson
Number of Words: 1631 / Number of Pages: 6
... own tales. His father was proud of him, but afraid his only son would not succeed in life. His father suggested law school just incase his writing did not succeed. He graduated, but he never practiced law, (1854). Instead, he wanted to travel for adventure and to find good health.
Robert Louis Stevenson began his travels in 1870. In the Life and Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, written by Richard Dury, Dury claims Stevenson first went to France, where he met Fanny Osbourne, an American lady. Stevenson traveled all throughout France, which inspired him to write An Inland Voyage, his first publish ...
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George Berkley
Number of Words: 749 / Number of Pages: 3
... Berkeley. In truth, it is the immaterialist position that seems the most logical when placed under close scrutiny.
The initial groundwork for Berkley’s position is the truism that the materialist is the skeptic. His idea is that no one can ever perceive the real essence of anything. In short, the materialist feels that the information received through sense experience gives a representative picture of the outside world and one cannot penetrate to the true essence of an object. This makes logical sense, for the only way to perceive this real essence would be to become the object itself. Al ...
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Pierre Trudeau
Number of Words: 368 / Number of Pages: 2
... of emphasis in Canadian society from consumption to conservation. And yet, he allowed energy-conservation measures in Canada to fall far behind those of the United States. More than a few times, Trudeau has insisted that it is our moral obligation as Canadians to share our wealth with poorer nations. Nevertheless, he still reduced foreign-aid spending and even put a protective quota on textile imports from developing countries. Trudeau has written about the importance of consensus in government. But again, this did not prevent him, on more than a few occasions, from entirely disregarding the consensu ...
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The Life Of A Jamestown Colonist
Number of Words: 2527 / Number of Pages: 10
... nervous they were that Spain seemed to be gaining such a foothold in the New World. No one in England liked the fact that Spain was the most powerful country in Europe. The king decided to explore in an effort to find a northwest passage to Asia without going around Asia. England also wanted to steal some of Spain’s riches, or “singe the King of Spain’s beard,” as we referred to the phrase back then. English pirates, such as Sir Francis Drake, began privateering, or plundering Spanish ships for riches. During this time, there was a population explosion in England because fertility was up and mortalit ...
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Bruce Campbell
Number of Words: 735 / Number of Pages: 3
... In 1976 he volunteered as an apprentice in northern Michigan at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse - a summer stock company where he worked eighteen hours a day putting up sets, being assistant stage manager, doing errands and so on. He got to work with television actors and considers it his first taste of Hollywood. He then briefly attended Western Michigan University where he took theater courses but dropped out because he felt it got too artsy. For about a year after this he worked as a production assistant for a production company that made commercials in Detroit. This consisted of sweeping ...
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Christopher Columbus
Number of Words: 1227 / Number of Pages: 5
... starting to question weather or not he should be given credit for discovering America. This doesn’t seem fare. After so many years without controversy it’s just been recently that we have started to question the lagitamitity of his discovery. What brought on this sudden change? Perhaps is was the coming of the five hundred year celebration of our country that brought this on, or maybe now some of the Native Americans are finally starting to speak out, but no matter what the reason may be it shouldn’t be taking place. Columbus should still be given the credit for discovering America. It was the first ...
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John Harlan
Number of Words: 851 / Number of Pages: 4
... firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child.
During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and ...
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