Andrew Hansen

Women do not live only to please and serve men! The story, “The Chaser,” the author John Collier, builds this brief story between a young man, Alan Austen, who is deeply in love and wants to possess his sweetheart entirely. Alan Austen then meets an unnamed old man who produces a love potion. Alan has no concern for the consequences that the potion may have on his sweetheart. He really just wants his sweetheart, Diana, to be deeply in love with him. Austen, with selfish and unreal expectations about love, has come to this old man to buy a love potion so that his sweetheart, Diana, will love him with all her heart and give him all her attention. The author makes it clear that the old man has seen many young men, like Alan, who have had the same desire for a woman. He knows that a woman’s possessive love will eventually bore and anger a man. He knows that after he sells a man the love potion, he will to be back for “ the chaser” -- the five thousand dollar “life cleaner.” In “The Chaser,” author John Collier illustrates the idea that women will be attracted to men who can provide for them (equality of ability or capability), that a woman should give up their social life in exchange for focusing on her husband and making his life her main concern (social equality), and that if a man is unfaithful, his wife should understand and still be faithful to her husband (equality of expectations). In “The Chaser,” the author illustrates many patriarchal ideas about women. The story…

There are many serial killers in the world, but only some become well known. The serial killer’s that are well known are the one’s that do the craziest things to their victims. The serial I chose to write about is Robert Hansen known as “The Alaska’s Serial Killer”. This man was absolutely crazy and had to have some mental issues. Robert Hansen was a serial killer in Anchorage, Alaska from 1971 to 1983. The articles say that he is one of the country’s worst killers of all time…

come from all walks of life. Some were immigrants like Andrew Carnegie and some have even been bankrupt several times such as Mark Victor Hansen. Then what made them eventually come out on top? All have earned their wealth in different ways, but all of these millionaires that I've described to you share at least 7 essential core beliefs, and I've outlined them for you right here. 1. Millionaires Believe in Having Balance in their Lives Most millionaires work only a few hours a week every few…

1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than 30,000 were left.” This decrease was due to the idea that “our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent.” Once the cotton gin was established in 1793 and more slaves were needed as well as land because of the climate needed to grow cotton. In order to obtain that land, they needed to remove Indians. In 1823 the Supreme Court ruled that their “right of discovery” is more important than Indians “right of occupancy.” …

Social Conditions in “Meet You In Hell” Les Standiford’s 2005 “Meet You In Hell” biography of two men, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, recalls the events after and before the bloody incident that occurred on July of 1892. The incident involving the steelworkers and Pinkerton, so called detectives, from the steel manufacturing plant in Homestead Pennsylvania came to be known as “the deadliest clash between workers and owners in American labor history” (Standiford, 28). After the dust had…

Carnegie Steel Corporation, the second being labor; the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers. Working conditions were severely poor, with long hours and little pay. “As William Livingstone said: harder work, longer hours, less pay and no security: ‘New machinery is constantly displacing the men…The longer days came in soon after the strike. Sunday work was a later development. Under the twelve hour day men have no time to themselves. The work is hard and hot…The heat is…

peaceful if the northern aggression of a revolution had not taken place. Ultimately though the Union plowed through the Confederacy and destroyed everything that they could lay their hands on. In the end after the last show as fired, the south was mortally wounded and the southern men limped back their plantations and farms defeated and without purpose. The process of Reconstruction was a novel idea but it had no fail safe and thus the blacks were left out in the cold without any real plan of…

However, on April 15, 1865, America was forever changed. Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction and peace following the Civil War were destroyed, leaving the racist and oppressive President Andrew Johnson to take over. Booth’s actions had cultural, historical, and social consequences on America. John Wilkes Booth impacted the United States by assassinating one of the most loved presidents, Abraham Lincoln. Without his actions, the world would be different because Lincoln would have gone on to do…

Edmund Ross’s Influence on the Impeachment Trials of Andrew Jackson “He is a man off courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” Socrates quote greatly expresses the courage and determination Edmund Ross showed in the impeding impeachment trials of Andrew Jackson. Edmund Ross played a major role on American History as he fought whether to vote with his conscience or with the majority vote. First, a history on Mr. Edmund Ross is important. Edmund G.…

The material from this book and the material we learned in class in exactly the same. Mr. Estep and Patricia Brady do an excellent job of presenting the material. The only difference between the two is that they choose to add different details to different material. The documentation that the author provides throughout the story is tremendous yet still making the story interesting. All of the documentation material comes from The Papers of Andrew Jackson. The most significant information I…