Like any formal writing‚ the beginning is equally important as the end. In order to appreciate the present‚ the past needs to be understood. Knowing the journey of where I grew up from the beginning to present day is amazing. It’s hard to believe there was a time in my hometown‚ Iron Mountain‚ Michigan‚ where electricity didn’t exist nor did the everyday tools we now take for granted. I often wonder what the city looked like to my grandparents and their family before them. Iron Mountain was founded
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America looks at the way that railroad owners found a way to turn that business into a big business and earn millions upon millions for themselves. A majority of the book shows how the railroad owners received lots of money for the corruption and other behind the scenes deals that went on. The railroad for how corrupt it was‚ unfortunately shaped the way America was built and became the superior power that it is in the present day. During
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The Gilded Age was a birthplace for innovation in many sectors of the nation. In Chicago‚ the World Fair sprouted the creation of new products and services. For example‚ the Fair caused the creation of a structured and efficient police force‚ the Colombia Guard‚ which at the time was a concept that was rare in the U.S. In the public health sector‚ improved water systems were built to combat the large amounts of diseases in the Chicago water. Other parts of the U.S‚ such as the West‚ witnessed innovations
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The Credit Mobilier Scandal was illegal manipulations of contracts by a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1865-1869. This incident established Credit Mobilier of America as a symbol of post- Civil War corruption. Credit Mobilier was part of a complex arrangement where a few men contracted with themselves or assignees for the construction of the railroad. Trustees and certain manipulators got extremely large profits but impoverished the
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Three main entrepreneurs of the 1920’s were Alfred Sloan‚ the founder of GM‚ Henry Ford‚ the founder of Ford Vehicles‚ and Richard Sears‚ the founders of the department store‚ Sears. Richard Sears started out his business as mail order catalogues but decided to expand and have actual stores where people would be able to come in and shop. Richards Sears started opening his retail outlets in 1925 and the stores turned out to be a great success‚ as Sears department stores are still in existence today
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Wealth is a heavy subject combated by both Franklin and the Puritans in both of these articles. While Franklin preached for individual frugality‚ the Puritans preached for the financial unity among the colony‚ as well as free bartering. These two differences in approach are what are make the articles radically unlike to each other. Both take an in-depth view point to each individual’s views and morals on the issue of wealth and how they think everyone else should approach personal wealth. Now let’s
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Does one need proof that almost anyone can make it into a world of prosperity and prestigious heights in the social class of the United States? If an example is necessary‚ one may think of people associated with big oil companies or mobsters during the 1920s. Although this may be correct‚ there is someone who arose just as fast and made a life and name for himself. Henry Ford is the man behind these words. He had changed our modern world and put us all one step closer to a more advanced and sophisticated
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Andrew Jackson is a one of the United State’s best president is a true because of all of the things he has done to help our country. First of all he was a president‚ war hero‚ and although he had no problem with slavery‚ he was adamant about preserving the Union against secession and nullification. Andrew Jackson can be considered a hero and a villain but leaning towards a hero through most eyes. He did allow slavery‚ but he acted in better ways to way down his good side. Jackson will also be
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Nucor Corporation in 2001: Pursuing Growth in a Troubled Steel Industry Table of Contents Introduction 3 Nucor’s History 3 Current Strategy and Future Expectation 4 Analysis and evaluation 4 Dominant Economic Characteristics of the Steel Industry Environment 4 Competition analysis in the Steel Industry 5 SWOT Analysis 6 Recommendations 9 Introduction Nucor’s History Nucor Corporation is the second-largest steel producer in the United States and has had net sales of $4.6
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The Biltmore Estate represents the finest architecture‚ construction‚ and materials available in the late nineteenth century. The famous house was built by George Vanderbilt‚ grandson of Corneluis Vanderbilt. George inherited money from Cornelius‚ a pioneer in the railroad industry (Hudson et al. 113). Cornelius Vanderbilt gained much of his wealth and prominence through hard work in the railroad and shipping industries (Cohen n. pag). BY the time he died‚ his railroad company he owned was
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