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    Industrial Tycoons

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    to get to the top of the economy‚ by either contributing positively or in some cases even if it meant destroying all the other industries that got in their way. In the nineteenth century‚ industrial tycoons were known as either a robber baron (Jay Gould) or a Captain of Industry (Henry Ford). Depending on how someone contributed to the growth of businesses‚ labeled them as one or the other. Some of the contributing factors that played an effect on identifying an industrialist as a robber baron or

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    Steel discovery which triggered new industries such as oil refining and electric light and power. A key role in this transformation of the American economy was the development of the railroad which was decades after the Civil War. Andrew Carnegie‚ Jay Gould‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and other businesses initiated many strategies to seize markets and take combine the power. This period that was gleaming on the outside yet corrupt underneath is known as the “Gilded Age‚” according to Mark Twain.

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    The Bell Curve

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    to fail because of their low intelligence. It goes on to argue that the best thing that can be done is to create simple‚ decent‚ honorable labor for them. In their reviews of “The Bell Curve” Gould‚ Lemann‚ Heckman‚ and Chabris claim that the authors’ arguments lack substantial verification. Stephen Jay Gould considers the arguments made in The Bell Curve. When talking about the IQ tests and how they can tell whether a student will do well in the future or not‚ he sees some flaws in the theory that

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    Stephan Jay Gould’s "The Median Isn’t the Message" Stephen Jay Gould was a paleontologist‚ evolutionary biologist‚ and a historian of science. He spent many years teaching at Harvard as well as at New York University in his later life. Gould‚ along with Niles Eldredge in 1972‚ published the theory of punctuated equilibrium. Their theory stated that creatures had long periods of evolutionary stability occasionally marked with rapid periods of advancement‚ unlike the previously accepted idea of phyletic

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    Constitution"   The article "Suspect Searches: Assessing Police Behavior Under the U.S. Constitution‚" by Gould and Mastrofski explores the police usage of unconstitutional searches.  Unconstitutional searches are those that are in violation of the fourth amendment.  The fourth amendment rights‚ along with certain case laws put forth the guidelines for legal stops‚ frisks‚ and searches.  Gould and Mastrofski perform a direct observation study which concludes the frequency of unconstitutional searches

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    The quotes from George Eliot’s novel argues that women can be talented and contradicts from Broca’s argument which is “Women‚ like it or not‚ had smaller brains than men and‚ therefore‚ could not equal them in intelligence” (519). In paragraph 5‚ Gould refers to Eliot because Gould’s article is focused on Eliot’s article and conflicts with Broca’s statistics that “prove” women’s smaller brains made them inferior to men. 2. The vulnerability in Braca’s argument is that although his numbers are sound

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    Summary of Sex

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    theories. According to Gould‚ scientific conclusions are the consequence; not the essence. Gould believes science’s main problem is the failure to separate fascinating claims from the scientific methods used‚ stating that “…science is‚ basically‚ a way of knowing” (pg.267). Gould examines three proposed ideas of dinosaur extinction. They are sex‚ drugs‚ and violence. Since these three notions invoke the themes of our culture‚ they are considered fascinating claims. Gould claims two theories are

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    Thomas Burnet’s Integration of Arrows and Cycles According to Gould‚ modern geology textbooks mischaracterize Thomas Burnet as “the archetype of a biblical idolatry that reined the progress of science‚” (1987:23). This was supported by writings of Fenton‚ who dismissed his theory as divine interventions to explain Earth’s development‚ and Hutton‚ who depicted Burnet’s book as “poetic fiction” (Fenton‚ 1952:22‚ Hutton‚ 1795:271). However‚ Burnet’s ideas particularly relied on physical principles

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    The Lowest Animal Summary

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    Gifts. Both written wonderfully‚ but both with different ideals and views. Mark Twain‚ author of The Lowest Animal‚ believes that human nature is cruel and unforgiving‚ that man does things out of hatred and cruelty. Our other author‚ Stephen Jay Gould‚ who wrote A Time of Gifts believes that for every one wrong a human does‚ will be replaced by ten thousand acts of kindness. As you can see‚ both authors have very different points to be made‚ but I agree more or less with Mark Twain on this one.

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    Glory Review

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    this was the first formal unit of the United State Army to be made up entirely of Black‚ or African American men. Over 180‚000 African American men served in the Union army of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and were led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Another person that had influenced the blacks to join the union army was an ex-slave named Frederick Douglass. After Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation‚ many African American men had their hearts in the war against slavery

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