Fictional amateur detectives

other workers decided that they weren’t going to get what they wanted. Carnegie hired Pinkerton detective agency to go to where the workers were striking and reopen Carnegie mill with the old workers or with new ones. However, when the detectives were sent on barges, they were spotted and word was sent around and all of the population of Homestead rushed to the river bank and began killing every detective. However, a truce was formed and the Pinkerton men were allowed to walk out of the town…

The Homestead lockout and strike of 1892 had a big impact on the labor movement of the late 19th century. The misapplication of Darwinian thought is used to explain the misuse of free market techniques. Based on the lecture given in class, Social Darwinism was developed by British philosopher Herbert Spencer who applied Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution to society. It is described as a process that came as a result of competition where the strong succeeded and the weak died.…

Reading about Andrew Carnegie I got to learn more about the Gilded Age as well as the American Society during the time. Coming from a small house in Scotland to making 23 million dollars a year, Carnegie made the American dream a reality. Growing the steel industry to being bigger than any other company, Carnegie provided jobs and built foundations off his industry. Doing this Carnegie believed in Social Darwinism and felt that the working class was meant to stay poor. Underpaying his workers…

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born American industrialist who gained great wealth in the steel industry before turning into a major philanthropist. His family moved to America to seek better economic opportunities. He started out working in a cotton factory as a boy and then rose up the latter of command through time. By his early thirties he was already well off and realized he wanted change. In 1901 he sold his company to J.P. Morgan for $480 million dollars and devoted himself to…

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” (Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind) Patrick Rothfuss analyses how childhood innocence and the lack of responsibility can be irresistible. For some, transitioning from the simplicity of youth to the daunting reality of adulthood can be a demanding task. Holden Caufield in The Catcher in the Rye and…

causes more connections to be made, obviously to the genre of the murder mystery, but also to a specific post-modernist theory concerning the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. On the back there is a "blurb" by the author: "A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic." The reader makes, under the direction of the author, a host of intertextual connections even before opening the…

one was the Detective Genre. Edgar Allan Poe's detective story, " The Murders in the Rue Morgue", written in 1841, is the beginning of the detective genre. The detective genre was started…

The Life we Bury Eskens Allen. The Life we Bury. Waterville: Wheeler Publishing, 2016. We all have thing in our lives that we would like to bury; things that we are either ashamed or embarrassed about. In the book The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens, the author unveils a terrific story about the main character’s past including his faults, transgressions and triumphs. Throughout the story Joe, a college student, must write a research biography paper from his english class. Joseph brushed off the…