The 3 most important inventions from the Gilded Age are the telephone‚ the lightbulb‚ and the skyscraper. The telephone‚ created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1875‚ had the ability to connect two people from a given distance together. Evolving from the human messenger and telegraph‚ the telephone improved upon those by ameliorating its speed and comprehensibility. As a result of this creation‚ people‚ today‚ can connect to each other from anywhere in the world‚ thus uniting those could never have otherwise
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Depending on how you look at Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride‚ Timson calls it an “upmarket melodrama” whereas Martin refers to it as a novel “confronting politically correct feminism”. The truth is it isn’t either of these. While some of the situations are greatly exaggerated‚ this book comments on the way that women interact with each other on a day-to-day basis. Atwood tells the story of three women‚ and how they are drawn together because they
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The Gilded Age Book Analysis The Gilded Age (1865-1901) is the post-Civil War era in which population and economy of the United States grew enormously and the upper class displayed their wealth extravagantly. Great contributors to the huge population explosion were the country’s western expansions as well as big industrial cities forming in the Northeast. The owners of these factories became filthy rich as they exploited the working class using unethical and in some cases illegal practices.
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entrepreneurs and business people of the time‚ because there was money to be made in this desire for amusement. Of course‚ this was not the whole story of the new Gilded Age‚ but it was definitely an era of growing leisure time and the business that came along with it. One of the most popular forms of entertainment during the Gilded Age was theater‚ particularly Vaudeville‚ which was a type of variety theater prominent in late 19th century America. Of course‚ similar types of variety shows had
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death of Homer Barron; because the town people don’t tell Homer Barron that Emily is carrying a poison bottle. The town people don’t even care what happens to Homer Barron. Even though no one that was reading the novel didn’t expect her to do that; yet it was a big surprise for even me to see. Yet the people in the town did nothing but looked away for without the slightest care of Barron. So I think in a million times that people in the town are responsible for the death of Homer Barron. The things
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“The Gilded Six-Bits” Response 1. The story is written as a single continuous narrative‚ but the events take place over a long period of time. Estimate how much time actually passes between the beginning of the story and end. I would say that the story had to take place probably between nine to ten months. I arrived at this conclusion from information given in the story. Such as I drew from the fact that after being caught with Otis D. Slemmons‚ Missie May and Joe had not touched in three months
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The experiment at the Robbers Cave Campground was formulated by Muzafer Sherif to demonstrate his Realistic Conflict Theory. Sherif’s two-part hypothesis stated: 1. Hierarchical statuses and roles will materialize when strangers are brought together to perform as a unit with common goals. 2. When two in-groups structured with these hierarchical statuses and roles are brought together in the name of competition‚ the result will be group frustration‚ attitudes‚ and appropriate hostile actions (Sherif
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robber barons or captains of industry I thought that people like Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and J.p Morgan were all robber barons. Because they would employ people and put them in these unsafe‚ and unsanitary conditions. Also they made education for immigrants coming in difficult because even though they built libraries and hospitals would the immigrants would be illiterate and not be able to pay for hospital bills. Lastly theses men were robber barons because they were using vertical
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some dispute over how these individuals should be portrayed. Some people say that they were robber barons‚ while others insist that they were captains of industry. A captain of industry is someone who is perceived to have helped the nation through their business skills and their philanthropy. On the other hand‚ a robber baron was someone who was considered a ruthless businessman. In the public’s opinion a robber baron wouldn’t let anything stop them from obtaining wealth. In my opinion Rockefeller and
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The Gilded age was an era that brought with it massive economic changes during the 1870s to the 1890. One of the largest changes was the developments of a more industrial economy. There was a huge shift from agricultural jobs towards manufacturing jobs and similar jobs in cities. About 11 million Americans had moved from farms to cities in 1870 to 1920. These changes proved beneficial to most of the American population however brought with it a series of drawbacks. This new industrial economy allowed
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