Nathan Grant Mrs. Shew English 3 11 April 2024 Carnegie mini-Q A hero has integrity, courage, and charisma and will face any challenge head-on and pursue greatness no matter what is in their way. Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist who played a big role in American history. Carnegie was known for his wealth and generosity in building schools and libraries. Carnegie was not a hero because he overworked people, he was directly tied to the Johnstown flood. He also donated money for his reputation, not for the people. Carnegie owned a steel business and had workers there working day in and day out. He would make them work 12 hours a day for 6 days straight, lowering their pay to 20 cents an hour. For example,
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On Doc A in the DBQ. Source photos courtesy of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. It says that Carnegie bought a castle in Scotland for 10,000,000 that he rarely used; he could've used that 10 million for a greater cause. Also, the movie How Steel Forged the US Empire says Carnegie wrote a letter to himself and in the letter, it stated he wished to have no money when he died, but after he was tied to at least 5,000 deaths of innocent he wanted to donate and give out a lot of money before he died the evidence doc c, chart from joseph frazier wall andrew carnegie new york oxford university press 1970 for that is so he donated a lot to teachers, schools, he built libraries for people, but again he did not for the liking of people, but all and all his total sum of donations was over 350 million dollars. He wasn't even able to give all of his money away anyway, so he did not fulfill the letter that he sent to himself. But there were some things that Carnegie did do good in the world, like building a bridge that connected east to west for trains to
On Doc A in the DBQ. Source photos courtesy of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. It says that Carnegie bought a castle in Scotland for 10,000,000 that he rarely used; he could've used that 10 million for a greater cause. Also, the movie How Steel Forged the US Empire says Carnegie wrote a letter to himself and in the letter, it stated he wished to have no money when he died, but after he was tied to at least 5,000 deaths of innocent he wanted to donate and give out a lot of money before he died the evidence doc c, chart from joseph frazier wall andrew carnegie new york oxford university press 1970 for that is so he donated a lot to teachers, schools, he built libraries for people, but again he did not for the liking of people, but all and all his total sum of donations was over 350 million dollars. He wasn't even able to give all of his money away anyway, so he did not fulfill the letter that he sent to himself. But there were some things that Carnegie did do good in the world, like building a bridge that connected east to west for trains to