Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900 1. A Defense of Long-Haul Rates * Serious grievance against the “railroad rascals” was discrimination. * The money to keep up the road must be forth coming or it will go to decay * $600‚000 was required to operate the road * Local shippers would benefit if the company took the cotton at dollar per bale because then they would have to pay less 2. Railroad President Sidney Dillon Supports Stock Watering (1891) * Stock watering: the practice
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CASE #1 JD Rockafeller Pg 82 1. In essence to the response of this question tying in how Standard Oil had changed society with references to the levels and spheres of corporate power discusses in the chapter‚ I would say that the power of economic‚ cultural and political of the Standard Oil has led to the big changes to the society. Based on the text book mentioned that “Rockefeller’s company was capitalized at 70$ million and produced 90 percent of the nation’s refining output.” This has shown
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State v. Rockefeller Defense Witness – John D. Rockefeller (Grant)‚ Direct Examination (L. Lily) DE: My name is _____ and I will be conducting the Direct Examination for Defense Witness John D. Rockefeller. Your honor‚ May I proceed? DE: Please state your name. R: John D. Rockefeller. DE: What is your occupation? R: I am the owner of the Standard Oil Company. DE: How did you achieve this position? R: I went into business as a young man and became successful in a partnership with other businessmen
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identity‚ nationally and internationally. A nation or land is where people have established their life‚ their culture and their heart; sadly it has happened where people have been forced out of their homeland. Great opening sentences. Mary Louise Pratt‚ Kenji Yoshino and Edward Said all present very good methods of maintaining one’s national identity in their essays. In Mary Louise Pratt’s essay Arts of the Contact Zone she gives examples of people who are in a contact zone. Contact zones are where
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Baker is saying that those who attempted to write of their experiences as a slave faced the daunting task of not offending the white culture or risk not being heard. This was the basic conclusion that I came to when I first read this text‚ but it was not until later that I came to understand this societal pressure to write in a certain way is still just another form of oppression. To define this type of oppression‚ I reference this section from Mary Louise Pratt’s "Art’s of the Contact Zone": "
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Addicted to Incarceration is a research book that was written by Travis C. Pratt‚ a professor at Washington State University. The main purpose of writing this book was to point out that the USA imprisons more of our population than any other nation. Pratt says‚ "On the one hand‚ we have constructed the biggest prison system on the planet… On the other hand‚ the United States has also been‚ and continues to be‚ the most violent industrialized nation in the world…. It is apparent‚ therefore‚ that our
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A person who has had a significant influence on me in my life would have to be my former foster mother‚ Miss Barbara Pratt. Ms. Pratt was a foster mother to many children before myself and she had had wonderful success with most of them. I had been in an extremely abusive relatives home before I had been placed in Ms. Pratt’s home. When it was discovered that I was in an abusive home I was first placed in a group home in Cincinnati. Social Services worked very hard to find me a home that would
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American society still touch base with the minority community today and have a tremendous impact on our lives both individually and collectively. According to Pratt‚ race undermines equality. On one side‚ emphasizing individuality distinguishes one person from the other‚ but having to recognize race then leaves out the individuality part. Pratt believes that recognition of race runs the risk of becoming identified with racism. When thinking of race‚ many attribute the idea with racism‚ prejudice‚ violence
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The Standard Oil Company was active in all levels and spheres of corporate power. For example‚ the influence over the railroad systems to set up discounts and rebates helped Standard Oil to have economic and legal power. The company was using the same railroads as other companies in the industry but paying far less. John D. Rockefeller had political power due to the large amount of donations he made to the church‚ poor and other organizations. Standard Oil had technological power and refined the
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Debating the Documents Interpreting Alternative Viewpoints in Primary Source Documents Monster Monopolist or Marketplace Hero? John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Company were widely admired and just as widely despised. Rockefeller: ©2006 MindSparks‚ a division of Social Studies School Service 10200 Jefferson Blvd.‚ P.O. Box 802 Culver City‚ CA 90232 United States of America (310) 839-2436 (800) 421-4246 Fax: (800) 944-5432 Fax: (310) 839-2249 http://mindsparks.com access@mindsparks.com
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