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    President John F. Kennedy, concerned with the effect of ruthless steel companies, gives a speech at the news conference in April. 11, 1962 as an effort to impede rising prices set by the trusts. Kennedy uses rhetorical devices such as pathos, tone, and logos to persuade the audience to take action. Throughout his speech, President Kennedy uses pathos to appeal to the sympathetic and emotional side of the people. He mentions Berlin and Southeast Asia, two countries where it seems problems there…

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    Gregory Aziz Case Study

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    Gregory James Aziz, who currently is working with the National Steel Car as a Chief Executive Officer as well as the chairman of the company’s board of directors was born on April 30, 1949 in London, Ontario. Aziz went to Ridley College then proceeded to the University of Western Ontario from where he did in economics. After he graduated, Gregory J Aziz worked in a family’s food processing firm before he relocated later to the city of New York. In New York City, he worked with different banking…

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    economically and politically? To what extent did the union movement change the lives of unskilled workers? Thomas Bell’s novel Out of This Furnace portrays the struggles of three generations of Slovak immigrants in Pittsburg. The immigrants settled in the steel mill town and worked hard to make money while fighting with the workers’ unions for better pay. In the process, the Slovaks suffered the retaliation of the management due to their involvement in union activities. Additionally, they were…

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    Such as, steel, oil, and the assembly line along with many other inventions and innovations. Technology played a big role in World War I and continued to develop afterwards. It could be argued that steel and oil made America the way it is today. Steel was a very important aspect to the growth of America.Steel was needed to build modern cities, especially skyscrapers. In 1872 Andrew Carnegie traveled to England to learn a new technique for making steel. Carnegie wanted to make steel…

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    AP Lang April 23, 2024 Rhetorical Analysis On April 10, 1962, America was coming out of a recession and John F. Kennedy was stuck to save the country from falling apart. The steel industry's price was raised by three and a half. Kennedy remarks about the news during a press conference on April 11, 1962, asserting that steel companies raising prices is harming American citizens. In his speech, Kennedy utilized his tone to emphasize the sadness for the citizens of America plus the hatred for the…

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    As the steel companies held unstable steel prices and wages President John F. Kennedy news conference was produced to coax Americans to join the national sacrifice of preserving the country in a period of economic distress. The rhetorical strategies employed in the news conference complement one another to capture the full attention of the general public. President Kennedy employs logos, diction and pathos in his speech to sway the public to his views on the situation. Each rhetorical strategy…

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    rate is higher than almost all other developed countries” (Schwartz). Why is the world so unequal? The world is unequal due to geography. Where a civilization is in the world affects what they grow, domesticated animals, minerals and ability to make steel, and exposure to germs and disease. Geography location affects what crops are being grown and developed in a civilization by their climate. If poeple are living in a place where there is a climate to grow wheat and barley then the they didn’t…

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    Rockefeller knew that kerosene would go out of business and tried to stop it. All while Andrew Carnegie was reconstructing his steel business from its problems. In the end Morgan started General Electric, Rockefeller started experimenting with gasoline,and Carnegie got his business back on track. The one person I would like to focus on from this episode is Andrew Carnegie. He made steel a huge thing…

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    once, he’s in”. These inventions, revised 999 times, can have great impacts. New inventions, innovations and technology impacted industrialization and American life in the late 1800s. The Bessemer process allowed for quicker and cheaper production of steel - which became the main material for large-scale building projects. Direct and alternating current electricity supplied, and still supplies, households and businesses across the world with the electricity that they use to power people’s…

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    Who Is Henry Bessemer?

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    industrial revolution. It allowed thousands of tons of high quality steel to be produced and delivered in a single day. To this day, Bessemer-Converter-inspired machines are the basis for making many steel products found in every household today.(lemelson.mit.edu) Robert Durrer was the first modern engineer to advance the Bessemer converter with one slight modification - instead of blowing air it blew in pure oxygen leading to far purer steel.(tc.umn.edu) Eliminating nitrogen found in…

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