Rockefeller Foundation

held on for about a decade—allowing the staff to keep sending detailed annual questionnaires to the men, hold regular case conferences, and publish a flurry of papers and several books—before he stopped sending checks. By the late 1940s, the Rockefeller Foundation took an interest, funding a research anthropologist named Margaret Lantis, who visited every man she could track down (which was all but a few). But by the mid-1950s, the study was on life support. The staff, including Clark Heath, who…

America: Divided by Class It’s all about the money—who hasn’t heard of the Rockefellers, Carnegie, or the Vanderbilt’s? The Gilded Age was a time when wealthy elite amassed their riches and built their opulent mansions while their workers often lived in squalor. Three distinct social classes emerged as life in America changed from rural to urban and immigrants poured into the nation. The Gilded Age is a term coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), a book…

ARCHITECTURAL STYLES OF HOMES IN THE HUDSON VALLEY There are five different styles of homes situated in the Hudson Valley currently available. Each provides a variety of benefits for the potential homebuyer. The Split Level home - Most of these were constructed in the 1950’s, and are distinguished by their resourceful use of space. The homeowner enters from the front door directly into the main living space – a living room, dining room, and kitchen. One staircase leads to the upstairs…

Harlem has been deeply associated with the vibrant life of african americans for more than a century. Harlem is the place where musician and bootleggers lived together, poet and pickpocket ate in the same dining room and preachers, physician all were aristocrats. On the contrary, Harlem 1920-1980s experienced deterioration of housing stocks, high crime rates and devastating effects of Crack and Cocaine. However, major changes have taken place in the last two decades where Harlem is no longer…

“Shall the Mothers and Children be Sacrificed to the Financial Greed Of the Liquor Traffic? It’s up to you, voter, to decide. VOTE DRY!” From New York City to Birmingham, Alabama propaganda posters line the streets of large cities and small towns. Some flaunt scared mothers and children while others show saloons swallowing up frightened men trying to make it home.. There is a war going on for the soul of America, and the prohibitionists are winning. The saloon has been a staple of the working…

Amnesty international Amnesty International (AI) is a nonprofit, independent international organization that works zealously to protect Human Rights around the world. It’s an intentional organization that fights for the human rights which have been violated around the globe. It has gained support worldwide with over 7 million members and supporters around the globe. Amnesty International primarily targets governments, but also reports on non-governmental bodies and private individuals…

VACCINATIONS Dr. Steve Cave said, “Vaccines have become a necessary part of the world— for the current health of our children and for the future generation.” (Steve Cave, 22). Within the past decade, concerned parents researched on how effective and save vaccines are. Thomas Gale said, “Vaccines are the best defense we have against infectious diseases. However, no vaccine is 100% safe or effective.” Throughout history, plagues and epidemics lead to millions of deaths and the world was in…

cities to continue their activity under extreme pressure regardless of the type of shock or stress they face, so that the people who live and work within the cities, especially the poor and the vulnerable, can survive and grow steadily (The Rockefeller Foundation, 2014). In recent researches, the latest definition of urban resilience refers to the ability of a city system and all of its social-ecological and socio-technical networks on spatial and temporal scales that maintain or quickly returns…

Another reformer of the time was Henry Demarest Lloyd who used his book, Wealth Against Commonwealth, to describe the “socially destructive effects of industrial monopolies,” specifically the Standard Oil Company owned by robber baron John Rockefeller. Lloyd rejected the “laissez-faire ideology of individual self-interest in favor of a political approach that acknowledges the interdependence of individuals,” stating that “liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty” (764-65). He was…

time in America where the economic growth was continuing to rise nearly doubling in the quantity of job opportunities, and more immigrants than ever started to settle in America. America from a technological aspect was starting to expand, men like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan who were ruled there businesses and at the time monopolized the smaller competition according to government regulation and based on the economy monopolies are illegal but the these business provided jobs for so many people I…