Carnegie Mellon University

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…

(Mintz, McNeil). Millions of immigrants flooded the United States in hopes of a better life and opportunities that America had to offer. This economic development can, no doubt, be attributed to the amazing minds, dreams, and aspirations of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller as they advanced the development of steel, rail, and oil industries. Additionally, these men understood the needs of the nation as they aimed to lower prices to provide additional economic expansion. For instance,…

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…

Who used to dominate the business world of America? The men are called the titans and they had many traits that made them so great. Cornelius Vanderbilt, John B. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan were four of them. The Titans shared many traits, three of which were being future thinkers, being strategic thinkers, and being risk takers and these traits helped them build America into what it is today. To succeed, the titans had to be strategic. Cornelius Vanderbilt, demonstrating this…

explaining how each american sets themselves goals for the future and it depends on how hard you work to reach those goals, or in other words their American Dream. Three examples of people who worked hard and achieved their dreams are Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Oprah Winfrey. Rockefeller started off as a young boy who…

struggled so hard to pay for our living condition. We were promise to have good wages and work rule. What did we gain? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! We are aware that the Carnegie steel Corporation has a high profit. It is unclear why they are cutting our wages and I feel they are trying to destroy us by giving little wages. Carnegie Steel proposed an 18% wage reduction as part of a new pay scale. I disagree with that assessment because that is still not enough to help feed our family. In fact, I…

Andrew Carnegie started working for a railroad in Pittsburgh. He was 12 years old at the time. He met Tom Scott, the company’s President. Scott hired Carnegie as his personal assistant. Carnegie wanted to grow up and go to school. However, his family could not make it without him working because he was the man of the household. When Carnegie took on some of the tasks that he did Scott realized how important this young boy was and quickly moved him up in the ranks of the company. Carnegie became…

been said many times before, that the story of Andrew Carnegie was a true rags to riches story. He is one of the pioneers of the industrialization of America and the king of the steel industry in the 1800’s. Nearing the turn of the century Carnegie sold his multi-billion dollar companies and turned his focus onto philanthropy. He was one, if not the first, to publicly say all of the rich had a moral obligation to give away their fortune. Carnegie ‘put his money where his mouth was’ by giving…

In 1889, Andrew Carnegie wrote an article concerning surplus wealth called, “Wealth”. As an immigrant from Scotland, Andrew took himself from the low end of the income spectrum to the extreme opposite. With the gained knowledge and values he obtained from the industry, Andrew responded to the issue of the country’s administration of wealth. He believed that competence should be what all individuals strive for whether he/she is rich or poor. The extra wealth surplus potentially could be…

p.2).” Andrew Carnegie was a wealthy individual in industry. Steel became one of the major products to come out of the industrialization period because it was more affordable than iron. The Bessemer process was created to help in the steelmaking process. Carnegie helped many people out of the kindness of his heart. Andrew Carnegie helped industrialize America, he was the author of The Gospel of Wealth, and he gave back to the community by funding places in need. Andrew Carnegie helped in the…