children of the working-class‚ relief effort were limited‚ and the upper- and middle-classes did not see it as their responsibility to help those the children of the intemperate and immoral. It was not until Dr. Thomas Barnardo‚ an Evangelical philanthropist‚ exposed the depravity of these children did the more affluent members of British society begin to take notice. In time
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computers to use‚ and made himself a powerful entrepreneur. Gates expanded his success with Windows OS and developed other user-friendly software applications such as Word‚ Excel‚ PowerPoint‚ and Outlook. Besides the fact that Bill Gates was an active philanthropist‚ he was a founder of the Microsoft Corporation as well and this exemplifies that Bill Gates is‚ indeed‚ a Renaissance
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Midterm exam prep sheet‚ History 406W. 2-11‚ Spring 2013 Kurk Dorsey‚ Justine Oliva‚ Shawn Pirelli‚ Mike Verney The exam is scheduled for Wednesday‚ 6 March‚ 9:10-10:00 in Horton 210. You need bring only pens or pencils; we will supply the paper. Essay (50 points): You will be assigned one of these three questions. It should take about 25 minutes of your time to answer it‚ and your answer should have a clear argument that addresses the question and evidence drawn from the reading and lectures. Keep
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contributed to this change‚ but one of the most influential is Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie observed the structure of business and made modifications to meet his own needs in order to produce a successful and prosperous business. Carnegie took advantage of the changes in American and European industry by creating a new way in which people look at business today. As illustrated in the book Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business‚ Carnegie built an industrial colossus by focusing on cost instead of
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Andrew Carnegie: Friend or Foe "The Gospel of Wealth" has been called "the most famous document in the history of American philanthropy. It described the responsibility of distribution of wealth by the new upper class of the self made rich. The main point of Carnegie’s essay was the danger of allowing large sums of money to be passed into the hands of people or organizations that were not capable of dealing with money adequately. His solution was for the wealthy entrepreneur to
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Rags to Riches Harold Livesay’s Andrew Carnegie and the Rise to Big Business portrayed Andrew Carnegie as a perfect example of the American Dream. From rags to riches is a journey that Andrew Carnegie portrayed through out his life. He was born into poverty in Scotland‚ moving to America in 1848. Andrew Carnegie started as a bobbin boy to one of the first tycoons of big business in America. With the jobs he did hold he applied the knowledge and techniques from job to job to generate his fortunes
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August 2009 Andrew Carnegie: The Father of Middle-Class America For decades Americans couldn’t help but love the red-headed‚ fun-loving Little Orphan Annie. The image of the little girl moving so quickly from poverty to wealth provided hope for the poor in the 1930s‚ and her story continues to be a dream of what the future just might hold. The rags-to-riches phenomenon is the heart of the American Dream. And few other people have embodied this phenomenon as much as Andrew Carnegie did in the late 1800s
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while the rich were living happily. Many new patents came out changing the way people did things. Workers suffered they wanted to change the working conditions especially for kids. People did not trust the government or have faith in it. Andrew Carnegie was the first to introduce mass production. He mass-produce steal by using a Bessemer. It allowed air in so it could better melt and mold steal which was raw iron and cast iron together. He sold his company to J.P. Morgan for $400‚080. This allowed
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norm. Businesses that deal with a very competitive field are limited as to how much they can grow and how low they can make their prices. For example back in the 1800s Andrew Carnegie created a monopoly that was not regulated. By lowering his prices he caused others unable to compete with him. By doing this Andrew Carnegie drove others out of the steel-producing business. When one person not only has control over a specific area but is the only supplier of this item‚ this is called a monopoly. These
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Andrew Carnegie is a perfect example of someone who worked for everything he had. He built his fame‚ fortune‚ and respectable reputation‚ from the ground up. He did so by his very successful steel business that literally blew other competitors out of the industry. However‚ many will argue that Carnegie was a “Robber Barron” because of his smart risky actions that include buying out everything that was needed for the industry which lead to a monopoly in the steel industry. Andrew Carnegie worked
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