Andrew Carnegie

Longtown Sends Out an Important Message . The city of Longtown was founded in the 1800’s, for nearly two centuries, this town had different races building friendships and families. Multiple lessons can be learned from this town and we can apply these lessons to Riverside in order to make our town a better place. For example, I learned that anybody is capable of achieving success, no matter what their status is in life. The article “ Ohio town holds rare history: Races mix freely for nearly 200…

cars on trains, Carnegie invested $217.50, which he obtained through a…

The American business giants of the Gilded Age were captains of industry. They had helped build industry in a positive way, used their technology to help advance in the industrial business, and had found new, better, ways to organize their businesses. Alongside these few reasons, the captains of industry, in general, helped revolutionize the way Americans do business. The “business giants” of the Gilded age were all very wealthy, there were few of them, but enough. A good portion of these…

My father and I have a strong but unique relationship. My dad is a V.P. at a well-known company, which means he works a lot. We only can spend time with each other a dinner when he is home because he works all day, and is often on business trips, and is on conference calls overseas. Our relationship almost grows stronger because of the lack of time together. My dad has shown me the value of time, the meaning of sacrifice, and the result of hard-work. When he is home, we spend a lot of time…

John Wayne Gacy Profiling inputs. John Wayne Gacy was a well-known man in his ages as his friends referred him to being a role model as he had wife and kids. Many people knew John as a successful businessman, who accomplished his own contractor business. Outside of work people knew John as a the dressed up clown that would show up to little kid’s parties and was known for being really good around kids. During John’s childhood he experienced his father to be an abusive alcoholic who would beat…

Henry Clay Frick was labeled as a robber baron. Frick was born to a farming family in western Pennsylvania and received little formal education (Encyclopedia of World Biography). His grandfather was a wealthy miller and distiller and Frick became bookkeeper for his grandfather's businesses at age 19 (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Frick was knowledgeable of the potential value of coking coal deposits for the developing steel industry (YourDictionary). With financial help from relatives and…

This episode was mostly based on the partnerships, and the hate that Carnegie and Fricke had started. Carnegie started out as a young man and worked for Tom Scott. Tom grows a strong relationship with Carnegie and makes him head management over the railroads in the west with him. There plan is to build a bridge over the Mississippi River to connect the East and West. He couldn't figure out anything that would hold such a big bridge like that, until he discovered metal. He was building the bridge…

In the first reading, What Should a billionaire give, the author Peter Singer touches upon a question we has humans have been asking for centuries, should the rich give away some of their earnings to help the less fortunate. Singer makes the argument that if we humans would have a price tag, we would be worth millions, yet we find it hard to sometimes give a little share of our money to help humans who are suffering. Singer uses real billionaires are examples in this reading such as Bill Gates…

Samuel Slater is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and the ‘Father of the American Factory System”. In Britain he was known as “Slater the Traitor” (which has a way better ring to it, in my opinion) because he brought textile technology to America from Britain and modified it for use in the United States. He heard about the American’s interest in developing machines similar to the British machines. He also knew that the British had laws against exporting the designs, so…

During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s many men had different views on the poor and the wealthy. Here we will go over Russell Conwell’s Acres of Diamonds as well as Samuel Gomper’s What Does the Working Man Want? A significant example of Conwell’s belief is when he says . “I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich.” It is a man’s responsibility to go out and work for his riches. To look around him and to use what he has at hand to earn a living. By hard work and…