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    broke, Carnegie steel quickly took advantage of their win and instituted longer work days with less pay. . Some consequences of this strike can still be seen today in America’s businesses such as workers’ working very hard for their pay and not receiving an adequate earning. According to pbsu.edu, “Dan Kinney, once a machinist and then a roller at the Braddock Works, told of the relation between hard work and mechanical improvements: ‘This mill has not been changed. The roller 's work is the…

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    thrive to achieve. “N one was more important to the “Iron City” than Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, whose operations in the city had more than quadrupled their output in the previous decade and were now producing more than a million tons of steel each year”, (Standford, 2005). Carnegie was born a business man. He was a bottom line leader that very rarely evaluated profits,…

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    he donated back to the community a lot and produced a lot of steel to better the world. In the year of 1889 Andrew Carnegie owned Carnegie Steel Corporation, the largest of its kind in the world. Instead of buying iron he bought the iron mines. Instead of paying someone to ship the iron to his factory, he bought the boat. Andrew reduced the cost of steel which was a big part in helping make buildings and other things that needed steel to make. People are asking, was he a hero? Carnegie…

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    in Dunfermline, Scotland, and after Industrialism swept his town, his parents were out of work, causing Carnegie’s family to immigrate to the United States. He taught himself how to read at libraries. He then gradually worked his way up through the steel industry to become one of the most successful businessmen and philanthropists of his time. Carnegie wrote The Gospel of Wealth because as a wealthy man, he felt that he was responsible for filling the void between the rich and the poor with his…

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    Who: This article is about Carl Scheele a 1700’s chemist. Scheele was born into a very wealthy family and his father was a very smart man. Scheele learned a lot from his father and his friends that would come to teach young Carl. Scheele became a pharmacist which lead him into working with different chemicals. He founded many different acids as well as barium and molybdenum. Scheele also created a green coloring mixture in which is now famous as Scheele’s Green. What: This article is trying to…

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    famous with his talent to decode the dot-dot-dash messages by ear when he was in the telegraph business to then becoming a superintendent in the railroad community and finally owning a booming successful business in steel. After his great success with his steel company, the Carnegie Steel Company, he became very popular. He was known for being one of richest men in the world and also was known for donated millions of dollars to many communities, especially to his community back in Scotland.…

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    way to America, started many companies, and became very wealthy. One company that made him extremely wealthy, but turned his reputation for the worst was the United States Steel Corporation. Carnegie had built this company from the bottom up. He was not only financially invested, but emotionally. He wanted to be the largest steel industry in the world. Carnegie couldn’t reach his goal…

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    of a handful of successful businessmen. Andrew Carnegie was the sole man responsible for the advances in steel production. Carnegie, like many other wealthy, rose from the bottom, beginning as a mailboy in a telegraph office to a job at the railroad all the way up to his successful steel company. he made farsighted investments in iron which ended up paying very well. he built the largest steel mill in the country and expanded his business to steamboats on the great lakes and iron bridges for the…

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    determination was the only catalyst for change. The greatest example of this determination was the rags to riches story of the Scottish-American immigrant that completely transformed America’s society and economy. Andrew Carnegie, the Titan of the Steel Industry, had considerable impacts on American society in the late nineteenth century. He contributed…

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    In Sholem Asch's novel Uncle Moses, Asch makes use of vivid written descriptors to effectively portray Uncle Moses' character to the reader. Uncle Moses begins as a butcher in Kuzmin, but then immigrates to America and became a wealthy factory-owner. In his newfound social standing, he employs many workers and helps their families financially, which inflates his view of himself as a caring uncle. Later, he tries to wed a young lady named Masha, who loves another man named Charlie. Masha…

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