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Andrew Carnegie: "Capt. Of Industry" Or "Robber Baron"?
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 536

.... potential injuries waiting to happen… and they had to work twelve hours a day, 7 days a week. When they started to form a labor union, he tried to stop it. He had to go to Scotland for a couple of days and told his partner to stop the strike by any means. Whether it was a misunderstanding or not, but his partner called for armed forces. The former workers were imprisoned, injured or killed, and definitely fired. Though after the unsuccessful strike, Carnegie rehired many of those people upon his return. Carnegie's biggest contribution was the development of the steel productio .....


John Marshall Harlan II
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 831

.... he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm. Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child. During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the Am .....


Nicholas Romanov
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1509

.... at this time was under tsarist rule by Nicholas II of the Romanov empire. Nicholas II was brought up by his father Alexander III who didn’t believe that his son could take an intelligent interest in anything and therefore did not educate him in the business of state . The fact that his father who died at age 49 thought that he had many more years ahead of him may also be another factor behind Nicholas’ poor leadership of Russia . Alexander who died in 1894 had left Russia with a society no longer controlled by tsarist rule and when Nicholas took the throne after his father .....


Ellen Foster
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 749

.... harsh ones of her father are reflected in the thoughts and actions of Ellen. The simplistic and humble attitude that both Gibbons and Ellen epitomize in the novel is portrayed through diction and dialogue throughout the novel allows the audience to gain a better understanding and personal compassion for both the character and author. The novel is written in a short, choppy sentence structure using simple word choice, or diction, in a stream of consciousness to enable the reader to perceive the novel in the rational of an eleven-year-old girl. One short, simple se .....


Plato And Justice
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 767

.... in all things and the Producers obey the Auxiliaries and Guardians in all things. A state may be said to be intemperate if any of the lower groups do not obey one of the higher groups. A state may be said to be just if the Auxiliaries do not simply obey the guardians, but enjoy doing so, that is, they don’t grumble about the authority being exercised over them; a state with “ordinary justice” would require that the Producers not only obey the Auxiliaries and Guardians, but that they do so willingly. Ordinary justice is basically the morality in the community or “outer mora .....


Lincoln 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 687

.... with provisions only; and that, if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition, will be made, without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the Fort. Without waiting for the arrival of Lincoln's expedition, the Confederate authorities presented to Major Anderson a demand for Sumter's prompt evacuation, which he refused. On April 12, 1861, at dawn, the Confederate batteries in the harbour opened fire. "Then, and thereby," Lincoln informed Congress when it met on July 4, "the assailants of the Government, began the conflict of arms." T .....


Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 794

.... education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians - for example, the ch .....


Abigail Adams
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 758

.... father often worked with his own hands, planting corn and potatoes, gathering hay, sowing barley, or making sure that his sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the help of her family grew a very religious bond between each other and a long lasting friendship. Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she learned at home. Her father’s library was not big, but she still went to it to read books. Abigail’s favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson. Abigail’s father knew John Adams by working with him and she grew rather .....



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