Rockefeller Foundation

The goals of the Rockefeller Foundation and Soper had shifted – whereas the Rockefeller Foundation emphasized vaccination, Soper felt eradication was only possible with the elimination of the vector. Despite this difference, Soper’s efforts in Brazil were lasting and between 1930 and 1949, Brazil spent $26 million on yellow fever work (in addition to the prior $14 million spent by the RF over 28 years). Stepan is skeptical of the effectiveness of such large investments in the fight against a…

new inventions and to pave roads Rockefeller with Rockefeller oil came out of the cracks and made millions selling his oil. Rockefeller used Horizontal integration to control the oil business effectively creating a monopoly owning the only company selling…

specifically the Atlantic World- has been her favorite subject, and her hobbies include hiking and walking. After earning her Bachelor's degree in History in 1961, she went on to get her masters degree at Harvard with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship foundation, a fellowship established to support and develop leaders who could rise up to many challenges the world presents. Only after being employed as an adjunct at the University of Connecticut did she realize her love for writing and teaching…

During the Progressive Era (1896-1917) in the United States, there were journalists, writers, and photographers known as muckrakers. They aimed to reveal corruption and wrongdoing in big businesses and the government by publishing sensationalist books and articles. Although President Theodore Roosevelt initially created the term to criticize journalists who he believed had crossed the line in their pursuit of stories, many journalists in today’s world, including Jessica Mitford, consider the…

When the Industrial Revolution began it set the foundation for all the modern technology we have today. The Big business that was made during this Revolution gave us the materials to industrialize the U.S and mold it to the great country it already is. Without the big industrial companies in that period of time, I believe that we wouldn’t be the same United States that we are today. To began, back in the early reconstructing era right after the civil war people the U.S began to industrialize by…

Aida Hurtado Aida Hurtado is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Possessing over 130 publications, including nine books and forty-three policy reports, Hurtado is one of the highest-ranking Chicana faculty members in the University of California system (AAHHE, 2017). Dr. Hurtado’s research focuses upon social/group identity and language. She specializes in unequal distributions of power between social groups like ethnicity, race, class, and gender. Recent books…

The end of World War II and with it the start of the Cold War marks the beginning of the use of foreign aid as an instrument to transfer resources between economies (Ruttan, 1996). An important characteristic of foreign aid has been that most aid transfers have taken place on a government-to-government basis. This characteristic emphasises the political dimension of foreign aid. In reality, foreign aid had already been provided for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II and to an extent…

be imperative to the progress of eugenics in Germany. In addition to seeing the United States as a model for their eugenics program, Germany also benefited from American financial intervention (directly and indirectly) by groups such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie…

“Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, she was one of four children of Thomas Henry McClintock and Sara Handy McClintock. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1908. After she moved she graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1919. Barbara did extremely well in school and ended up earning her B.S. and M.S. degrees in botany at Cornell University, and received her Ph.D. in the same subject at Cornell in 1927. Although women were not always permitted to major…

and entrepreneur were the smallest segment of urban society their houses were spacious and they enjoy the great luxurious of city life. The corporate world grew up wealthy and more powerful industrial leaders like Andrew Carneige, J.P Morgan and Rockefeller emerged as great entrepreneur who introduced American economy with more sophisticated ways of railroad, iron, steel, oil refining, financing and telegraph. It also expanded blue-collar working class. While, the labor force was consisted of…