Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? “The man who dies rich‚ dies disgraced” John Perricone Period 6 Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? Andrew Carnegie is known as the king of steel. He was born November 25‚ 1835 in Dunfermline‚ Scotland. In 1848 he and he and his family immigrated to America and ended up in Pittsburg‚ where they lived in a small house and had very little money. In 1872 he traveled to England where he met Henry Bessemer‚ the man who converted iron into steel. He took Bessemer’s brilliant
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Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? Was he a hero like batman‚ a villain like the joker or a little bit of both? Andrew Carnegie was born in November in 1835 in Dunfermile Scotland into a very poor family. His mother gave birth to him in their attic and he attended a one room school house with 150 students before they moved to America. So‚ the question is was Andrew Carnegie a hero? My definition of a hero is someone who has courage integrity and concern for others. I think There are Two Sides to Every Hero
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Twentieth Century. Because of Andrew Carnegie’s stand against harsh labor‚ expansion of the steel industry‚ and extreme generosity with ongoing philanthropic work‚ history will record him as the most influential person of the Twentieth Century. Carnegie is most widely known for his monopolization of the steel industry. He developed numerous companies to support the need for steel in the developing United States. He foresaw that following the Civil War steel was going to be an important part of
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The owner is using the reasoning from Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie would agree with this because the economic success is most profitable for the business and this makes it inequality is good. The business will benefit from this decision by not giving a raise. Then it is okay to not give a raise to benefit the company. Inequality is essential to a business because it increases the standard of living. This inequality is beneficial in business because it has the goals of the business not the workers
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world‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ actually grew up with another family in one half of an attic‚ and him and his parents in another half. This attic was located above his father’s workplace in Dunfermline‚ Scotland. At the age of eight‚ he started his education in a one-room school packed with around 150 students. Driven by the Irish potato famine‚ his family left for the United states in 1848‚ searching for a better and safer life. In order to make ends meet his family needed $7.50 a week‚ so Carnegie took a job
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possessed by a “hero”. Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist who supported capitalism‚ and Social Darwinism‚ free enterprise and economic competition. He favored the idea that the most superior people in society naturally rise to the top. He was born in 1835 in the attic of a weaver’s cottage in Dunfermline‚ Scotland. Carnegie´s family faced poverty‚ which caused him to begin work at the age of 12 to contribute to his family’s responsibilities. Working 12 hours a day‚ Carnegie earned 1 dollar and 20 cents
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Born from nothing and made into something. Andrew Carnegie was one the of most famous business men in America. He was born in Scotland and was immigrated to America with his family. They lived in a small house in Pittsburgh and they had little money. In some ways he was a hero and in some ways he was not. A hero is someone who is admired for courage‚ outstanding achievements‚ or noble qualities. Carnegie was a hero because he was a philanthropist and was the reason that the United States became a
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Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller‚ were both at one point in there life’s the richest men in the world. However they both had very different trails getting to their fortunes. Rockefeller was more or less handed money being part of the prestige aristocracy‚ however he was a very shred and organized man. He stressed the idea of planning ahead and never procrastinating‚ in most cases he was a penny-pinching millionaire. Even as a child he was always very organized and always planned ahead. This
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Where Ideologies Clash: Galbraith vs. Carnegie Wayne Eternicka Nicolet Area Technical College Where Ideologies Clash: Galbraith vs. Carnegie All men are created equal – that is‚ unless you subscribe to Andrew Carnegies ideas put forth in the 1889 essay “The Gospel of Wealth.” Carnegie (2010) wrote that some people are “unworthy” while others are “the highest type of man‚ the best and most valuable of all that humanity has yet accomplished” (p. 395). Carnegie’s (2010) belief in social Darwinism
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of monopolies itself goes way back to the colonial times. Monopolies are great economic powers that have had positive consequences to the United States of America. Andrew Carnegie is a great example of an American Industrialist who made a vast fortune in the steel company by monopolizing. As a little boy growing up‚ Carnegie went from “Rags to Riches” in a short amount of time for a man of his background. As his first job he worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory in which he rose to the position
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