American popular culture has always been a market for sales. Everything that is and has made pop culture what it is in America has been built through commercialization. The ability to sell the main product and then the countless other revenue items that go with that product define American culture. Today in the United States a person would be hard-pressed to fined a movie showing in theaters that does not have a soundtrack out‚ t-shirt even action figures that go along with it. So where did this
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Therefore‚ the greatest minds worked hard to make them possible. However‚ every product needs to go through a process first. This is the part where the opportunists take place. Many names given to these opportunists are industrialists‚ businessmen or robber barons. Some examples are John D. Rockefeller‚ John P. Morgan‚ and Cornelius Vanderbilt. In fact‚ one notable example is Andrew Carnegie. Nonetheless‚ Andrew was slightly different. He was a philanthropist. One illustration of his philosophies is stated
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"How successful was organized labor in improving the position of workers in the period from 1875 to 1900? Analyze the factors that contributed to the level of success achieved." “It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interest.” The Second Industrial Revolution skyrocketed with new inventions and machines and changed how factories and jobs were worked. As the industries grew‚ so did the need for unions among the workers. To a certain degree the unions were successful in
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which industrialists dominated the nation’s development. The public felt as if they were being cheated by these "robber barons‚" a term given to those who took advantage of the middle and lower classes by "boldly stealing the fruits of their toils" (Morgan‚ 30). These corporate tycoons’ conduct was legal‚ however ethically dubious it was. Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ a well-known railroad baron‚ reportedly once said‚ "Law! What do I care about the law? Hain’t I got the power?" (Morgan‚ 30) The change from
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From the nineteenth century to the present‚ the United States has been hailed as a "land of opportunity" where individuals could achieve personal‚ political‚ religious‚ and economic freedoms. The image of the "land of opportunity" was true to different degrees for the African-American sharecropper in the postwar South‚ the immigrant at Ellis Island‚ and the wealthy capitalist or manager in the period from eighteen-sixty five to nineteen-fourteen with the African-American being at the low end of the
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and work? Unlike prior classical economist‚ Veblen argued that the inherent human impulse was not to have leisure time‚ but to have pride in one’s work. In the past‚ people gained wealth through honest work; in Veblen’s time‚ capitalists‚ or “robber barons‚” started to gain wealth through violent‚ rude‚ and ungentlemanly
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conflict‚ the creators of weapons of mass destruction‚ the dictators of the oppressed but people? It can seem that the world is teeming with ill-meaning villains who wish only to exploit their fellow man. To the workers of the Guilded Age in which robber barons ruled over the impoverished as kings‚ it wouldn’t seem an exaggeration to declare “hell is other people”. To the Africans who were enslaved unjustly by foreign conquerors and taken from their homeland Hell was other people. From the atrocities
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年代。八十年代，但只经过了痛苦极高的失业率，自大萧条以来最严重的通货膨胀最终得到了控制。通过提前预测的滞胀现象，弗里德曼和菲尔普斯实现战后经济学的伟大的胜利之一。 ‚ the California electricity crisis of 2000– 2001—in which power companies and energy traders created an artificial shortage to drive up prices—reminded us of the reality that lay behind tales of the robber barons and their depredations. While other states didn’t suffer as severely as California‚ across the nation electricity deregulation led to higher‚ not lower‚ prices‚ with huge windfall profits for power companies. 2000 – 2001年的加州电力危机 — — 在哪些电源公司和能源交易商创建人工短缺，从而推高价格
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The politics of the Gilded Age failed to deal with the critical social and economical issues of the times. It was the era filled with forgotten presidents and politicians who ignored the problems erupting in the cites. Monopolies ruled over all the aspects of life‚ and the greedy men who ruled these monopolies caused poverty throughout the nation. The ideas of limited government caused the political parties to not take a stand on important issues. The "wonderful" Gilded Age in fact was not a pretty
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“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down‚ simply by spending his money somewhere else.” - Sam Walton Faith‚ loyalty‚ and trust; all fail in the face of the almighty dollar‚ but not everybody can get it. Without consumers and customers‚ a business is simply dead. Overtime the employees‚ associates‚ workers and even the local community become so emotionally attached to the company that they refuse to see that the corporation they love
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