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for being risk-takers and also very humanitarian individuals, caring for others well-being. Many were known for their donation of money to the needy, building libraries, giving land to farmers in need of it and also letting individuals go on ships with free or reduced fare. A few of the most giving market entrepreneurs were Andrew Carnegie, James J. Hill, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius…

seek knowledge and wisdom. Overtime it gained recognition and became one of the three major religions in China. The philosophical and religious system was built upon a holistic view of the world and the realization of the duality of everything. (Carnegie). While Taoism is a religion developed in Asia, its practices have come to affect many global practices such as meditation, acupuncture, herbal medicine and martial arts.…

the most substantial businessmen of the Gilded Age were John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt and many others. These businessmen were highly criticized by many who stated that their vast fortunes were created from the backs of the working class. But, others argued that without these businessmen, there wouldn’t have been the great acts of philanthropy which was used to support libraries, hospitals, colleges and many charities. The previous chapters have shown that…

The Borrowers by Mary Norton is a classic novel that does not get dated with time. “Marcus Crouch comments that, ‘of all the winners of the Carnegie Medal [awarded annually by the British Library Association to the best children's novel of the preceding year], it is the one book of unquestioned, timeless genius’” (Stott). The Borrowers was published in 1952 has continued to be read throughout the following years. This book is still in print and is still being read even sixty years after it was…

The weakest point on the persecution side was” My brother and I were just 8 and 10 when we were sent out to work to simply help our family survive” Now on the defense side the strongest and weakest point was when Andrew Carnegie stated that “ I built almost 3000 public libraries across the country” John D . Rockefeller - “ I am far too valuable to waste my precious time fighting’’ What…

apply Christian ethics to social problems such as poverty, slums, poor nutrition and education, alcoholism, crime, and war. One of the many things the practice of Social Gospel overcame was the expansion of education with things such as colleges, libraries, and Americanization. Settlement houses were another product of the Social Gospel. The people attempted to bring the values of small-town, middle class America to the inner city, as a way of eliminating poverty. Settlement houses were formed…

Booker Taliaferro Washington was determined to further the status of African Americans by altering the perspectives of the white community, showcasing their effectiveness towards the rise of an industrial society. Washington sought to reinforce the unyielding support from his antislavery uprising towards his community by sustaining a concrete foundation for his institutions. By enhancing the very platform that brought him success, he was capable of improving the minds of the African Americans in…

Beginning with the end of the Civil War and the North’s continuing boom in industry and ending with the beginning of Progressivism in the turn of the century, consolidations and business rose while the descent of many citizens became omnipresent . The idea of the “self-made man” from the Horatio-Alger Myth was just that: a myth. Social Darwinism appeared and dictated that the better companies and better/wealthier people would come out on top because the impoverished were somehow undeserving of…

The Newbery Award is a very Important award dedicated to kid’s literature. It is given out annually by the American Library Association (source 1). The Newbery Award is the first children’s literature award in the world (source 1). It was first given out in 1921 by Frederic Melcher (source 3). He encouraged reading among children greatly (source 3). Frederic Melcher is a former bookseller and editor or Publishers Weekly(source 3). He believed the award should be named after John Newbery, the…

organizations in the nation as a maker of science and building graduates who went ahead to doctoral studies. A normal of 7.2 percent of Polytechnic graduates went ahead to accomplish a Ph.D., contrasted and two different schools with vast building programs: Carnegie Mellon, with a normal of 6 percent, and Princeton, with 4.5 percent. Polytechnic University turned out to be understood for its exploration focuses in electrophysics and polymer…