The Robbers

One of the greatest influential people during the Industrial Age were the robber barons. A robber baron was a person that exploited the working class and obtained tribute from the public. They had been accused of creating a monopolistic economy in several different areas of the United States. The principal barons that were the strongest are Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan. These individuals created such a strong monopoly over their respected industry. Through…

in The Robber Bride. Three quite ordinary women: Tony, Charis and Roz confront a demonic character called Zenia, who at first pretends to be a devoted friend and later destroys their lives. Zenia manages to steal from each of the other women her husband or partner, but it is clear that love has nothing to do with it, at least on her part. In fact, Zenia represents all the traits of the devilish woman, as we know her from literature and film: she is seductive, beautiful, merciless, and…

The evolution of “The Robber Bridegroom” “The Robber Bridegroom” is more than the Grimm Brother’s tale; it is a specific type, with multiple variations identified by Aarne-Thompson-Uther’s (ATU) classification system in tale type A955. Here, the ATU system is used for ease in locating similar tales, rather than a rigid adherence to ATU’s criteria, and is supplemented by Maria Tartar’s grouping of “Bluebeard,” “Fitcher’s Bird,” and “The Robber Bridegroom” variations in The Classic Fairy Tales.…

Weinberg Ms. Ackley U.S. History 2/29/2017 I am here before you today as a struggling businessman, wrongly accused of horrific greed and cruelty against my employees. I too, would be horrified if such accusations were true. My detractors call me a robber baron, even worse, they call my employees, who I care for dearly, “wage slaves,” as if they had no agency of their own and had left their destinies to me. This is as patronizing as it is untrue. Allow me to enlighten all of you as to the actual…

The development of the American economy after the Civil War was very sporadic, and contained both good and bad throughout the whole of the development. Because of the development of the economy, the economy today is much better than it was then. Then, monopolies of industries were common, but were also quite hated because of many restrictions placed on employees of those who monopolized industries. Men who controlled industries, and their economies, were appropriately named “Captains of the…

Character Analysis of the “Robber’s Bridegroom” Joshua R Rager Mrs. Jackson ENG 1020-W1 10/6/2014 In the Grimm’s tale of “The Robber Bridegroom” the main character or heroine of the story is a miller’s daughter who like all women of the time are subjected to a patriarchal society where the father picks out a suitor for their daughters. In a patriarchal society the father is the center of the family who serves as the provider and decision maker in the household, while the mother and…

The powerful Industrialists of the gilded age are often negatively connotated, due to the deceptive behavior and questionable activities that they are known to have partaken in. Four notable men of this standing were John D. Rockefeller, monopolizer of the oil industry, Andrew Carnegie, in the steel industry, J.P. Morgan, a financier and banker, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was wealthy and powerful in the railroad industry and built the Transcontinental railroad. Although they were in many ways…

Significant controversy over the question if the big business men of the late nineteenth century were “robber barons” has been widely debated by historians. Notably, Howard Zinn (yes) and John S. Gordon (no) have documented their reasonings behind their opinions on if the big business men truly were “robber barons” or simply “captains of industry”. Most significant was Howard Zinn’s argument that they were robber barons based on how they treated workers, as well as the issues of scandals,…

They took advantage of their workers and were these best known robber barons of the Gilded Age. The side that most people never hear about it how little their workers were paid or what conditions the workplace was in. This type of information was concealed from their biographies and is only found in minimal secondary…

history, there were more people living in the cities than there were living in the countrysides. The reason being is because people were primarily working in the factories located in the cities, which made up the industries that ran the country. The robber barons running these industries would pay the people low wages to work in the factories. Their low income forced the working class to live in terrible living conditions called the slums. The slums were heavily populated urban areas where…