Thomas Andrews

Andrew Carnegie, a first-class American who netted millions of dollars in the late 1800s, encouraged and inspired wealthy citizens, through his essays, to donate money to charities, public service agencies, educational institutions, and more. In his entire lifetime, he accumulated more than 390 million dollars, which would amount to over four billion dollars today. Ninety percent of that was donated to charities and foundations, supporting over 2,500 libraries and hundreds of venues for concerts…

He made many decisions based on what he believed in. Andrew Jackson was a frontier lawyer in Tennessee, he often took his fees in land rather than money. Land was the type of wealth with the largest value in the United States during Jacksons life, slaves were the second most valuable. According to Milkis and…

of Andrew Jackson’s presidential campaign saw a noteworthy change in legislative issues for the U.S. citizen. Voter support had expanded significantly with famous cooperation taking off up to around 50-60 percent. Nonetheless, there were numerous occasions that were prompting bigger support in legislative issues for the "common man" before Andrew Jackson was chosen as president. The most critical occasion was the development of white male suffrage. To ascribe the change exclusively to Andrew…

In chapter 6 of Deloria’s Custer Died for Your Sins, he goes extensively into government agencies and their roles in the tribes. He spends a considerable amount of time on the Bureau of Indian Affairs and their area offices around the country. Deloria doesn’t fully condemn the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the area offices, but he points out a lot of their short comings. His main intent in writing the chapter in my opinion is mostly to expose how ineffectual the area offices are. He introduces the…

How could a villain be on the twenty dollar bill? Some people believe Andrew Jackson was a successful president. However, after careful analysis of Andrew Jackson’s life, it shows that he was a villain for ignoring the supreme court and the suffering of the Native Americans. Andrew Jackson’s ignorance towards the supreme court was one great example of why he is an antihero. When the supreme court ruled the rights of lands to the Indians, Jackson disagreed. According to the text, ”An angry…

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie’s life embodies the true American rags to riches story. Andrew Carnegie was the son of a man with many struggles to find jobs. Due to his father’s struggles, Andrew Carnegie began to work at many different jobs; he worked in two factories before he found a stable job at a railroad company. Andrew Carnegie rose through the ranks at the company until becoming the secretary for the superintendent. His many trips to England brought his eye to steel which would later…

Next, another publication released his letter. It was included in the March 13, 1830 issue of Niles Weekly Register, a periodical published in Baltimore, Maryland [2]. Unfortunately, these pleas reverberated on deaf ears. Andrew Jackson was both a major advocate and orchestrator Indian removal. He would later enact a bill that would cement their removal, ensuring it would become a federal policy. Although the Cherokee Nation along with other tribes lost, Ross’s correspondences…

Spoils System The spoils system a system in which your friends come into power with you. A system in which if you are the most loyal follower of a certain person in power you get into power. A great example is shown on pg 40 of the novel The Destiny of the Republic when it states that “ ten years earlier then President Grant had given Conkling his most fiercely loyal supporter, control of the New York Customs house.” That is the spoils system at its finest because it shows that supporters of…

There are many ways to describe Andrew Carnegie such as self-made millionaire (billionaire in today’s terms) or philanthropist. However, one way in which most would not expect to describe Carnegie is as a firm believer in the estate tax. This may be due to the fact that many people do not know the definition of an estate tax or have no experience with it. An estate tax is defined as “a tax levied on the net value of the estate of a deceased person before distribution to the heirs.” However, an…

travel the archetype of an ocean, to find his lost son. He encounters many dangers like jellyfish an angler fish and a whale that swallows him whole. Throughout the movie, there is an overlying theme. The theme is that, In the movie “Finding Nemo”, Andrew Stanton uses water, a quest and the sea to assert that we as humans fear the unknown because we like being in control of our destiny, but we often learn to…