first paid detective unit. As the years went by crime around the world stated to increase‚ due to that more investigation departments stated developing. One of the most significant person to play a role in today’s police investigations was Allan Pinkerton he was the first detective in Chicago. He was part of the Secret Service and he developed techniques that are still being used in today by police work like the undercover work. After the agency in Chicago was established other agencies started growing
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away in Scotland‚ Frick cut the workers wages and the union rejected the pay cuts. Frick then fired and locked out 3‚800 workers from the plant that had about 4‚000 people. A group of 300 Pinkerton agents were sent to fill the plant. This caused the workers to be furious and the employees to open fire on the Pinkerton guards. The situation became so violent that the governor became involved‚ as well as 8‚500 national guard soldiers to help control the workers (Adamczyk). Although Carnegie was in Scotland
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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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VANITY FAIR William M. Thackeray | 1811–1863 Monday‚ October 29‚ 12 The Title Vanity: excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements Fair: a competitive exhibition for the amusement of the public In his 1678 allegory “The Pilgrim’s Progress‚” John Bunyan called London “Vanity Fair.” A well-known passage of the Bible claims‚ “All is Vanity.” Monday‚ October 29‚ 12 The Title “But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has Vanity Fair for
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in charge‚ was soon to be hated by the workforce at the Carnegie Steel Plant. This was because Frick reduced the wages‚ and built a fence 3 miles long and 12 feet high in order to keep the workers out to break the union. Problems heated up when Pinkerton Guards were hired to keep the union out of the factory while scab workers worked for low wages. Riots began‚ people died on both sides‚ and terror struck in Homestead‚ Pennsylvania. In Pullman‚ Illinois‚ another issue over workers wages grew
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Who were the Molly Maguires? Did they really exist? These are questions asked by many people today. Some historians wonder if the Molly Maguires really did bring their secret society from England to the United States‚ or if the incidents blamed on them were just random accidents on which officials needed to place a blame. We may never actually know... There are many ideas about how the "Molly Maguires" got their name. One of the most popular is that Molly was a poor widow‚ who was evicted from
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In 1893 he built a three story building and named it the "castle" as a hotel‚ drug store‚ and commercial store fronts for the Chicago World ’s Fair. Holmes used the windowless hotel to lure his victims in to torture and kill. He was arrested by Pinkertons for horse thieving in 1895. While the investigations for fraud and theft were ongoing police discovered his connection to his assistant Benjamin Pitezel‚ and three of his children. Holmes was put on trial for the murder confessing to 27 murders
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realize how vanity itself can affect how people act. It is mainly a story about two girls with different outlooks in life; entangled in problems that neither of them could face well. IV. Main Characters: Miss Barbara Pinkerton – presiding over an Academy for Young ladies Jemima Pinkerton – sister of Barbara Amelia Sedley – will be the wife of Mr. George Osborne John Sedley – father of Amelia Mrs. Sedley – wife of John Sedley Joseph Sedley – brother of Amelia Mrs. Blenkinsop – housekeeper for the
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the first sight‚ because he believed that Song was his submissive Madame butterfly. Days later‚ Gallimard was invited to Song’s apartment and began a love affair with Song. During this period‚ Gallimard fall into a fantasy which he thought he was Pinkerton‚ the naval officer in Madame Butterfly‚ and Song was his butterfly‚ the spoony Japanese woman Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly. However‚ Song‚ as a Peking opera singer‚ has another identity—a Chinese spy. Song was appointed to obtain diplomatic secrets
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The detective agency has been around in the United States since 1850 thanks to Allan Pinkerton. Eleven years later‚ Zebulon Brockway created the first parole system. The world’s finger classification system was used in 1892‚ by Juan Vucetich while working for the Central Police Department in La Plata‚ Argentina. He first used it to identify a bloody fingerprint from a double homicide of children. Then in 1908‚ Lola G. Baldwin was hired as the first woman police officer. Also in 1908‚ Charles Bonaparte
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