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  • Andrew Carnegie Biography

    Andrew Carnegie Biography

    A man of Scotland, a distinguished citizen of the United States, and a philanthropist devoted to the betterment of the world around him, Andrew Carnegie became famous at the turn of the twentieth century and became a real life rags to riches story. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835, Andrew Carnegie entered the world in poverty. The son of a hand weaver, Carnegie received his only formal education during the short time between

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    Submitted: November 30, 2008 By: Jon
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie helped to develop the American economy. He made a company that was in the Dow Jones industrials. He introduced the Bessemer method of steel production to the United States. Think what could have happened without his companies existence, who would have produced steel for transcontinental railroads, the weapons that protect our country against communist threats. Carnegie was not actually native born though, he was born in Scotland and moved to the

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Andrew Carnegie and the American Dream

    Andrew Carnegie and the American Dream

    Andrew Carnegie and The American Dream Many have tried; few have achieved - The American Dream. What is the American Dream? According to Webster the American Dream is the ideal according to which equality of opportunity permits any American to aspire to high attainment and material success. Andrew Carnegie is the epitome of the American Dream because he is a classic example of rags to riches success story. He seemed to be touched by an

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    Submitted: March 22, 2009 By: Top
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    A man of Scotland, a distinguished man citizen of the United States, and now a philanthropist devoted to the making the world around him a better place, Andrew Carnegie became famous at the turn of the twentieth century and became true rags to riches story. Carnegie’s life Started on “November 25, 1835 in Dunfermiline, Fife Scotland” (Nasaw 36) Carnegie’s Family was poor, but he still grew up in a well cultured and political family. Many

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Jon
  • Andrew Carnegie Vs. Sam Walton

    Andrew Carnegie Vs. Sam Walton

    Carnegie Vs. Walton In this essay I was asked to compare Wal-Mart’s Sam Walton to a 19th century business tycoon. I chose to do Andrew Carnegie who was the leader of the steel industry in the late 1800’s. Both these men had different views on competition, government involvement, interaction with labor and charity. Andrew Carnegie helped build the American steel industry. He was born in 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland, to Margaret and Will Carnegie. The

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Andrew Carnegie and the American Dream

    Andrew Carnegie and the American Dream

    Andrew Carnegie and The American Dream Many have tried; few have achieved - The American Dream. What is the American Dream? According to Webster the American Dream is the ideal according to which equality of opportunity permits any American to aspire to high attainment and material success. Andrew Carnegie is the epitome of the American Dream because he is a classic example of rags to riches success story. He seemed to be touched by an

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Janna
  • Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

    Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

    Andrew Carnegie, born in Scotland, came to the United States in 1848. Here he started with nothing and turned himself into a self-made man. He was in fact, one of the richest men if this era. In 1889 he wrote “The Gospel of Wealth”. In this essay he discusses philanthropy and explains that with money also comes responsibility. He stated that obedience [to the Gospel of Wealth] will one day solve the problem of the

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    Essay Length: 411 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: David
  • Andrew Carnegie Brief Bio

    Andrew Carnegie Brief Bio

    Andrew Carnegie was once claimed the richest man in the world. He built a fortune from a meager beginning. Carnegie was a hard working man who refused to quit. He was dedicated to perform well and held respect for quality work. However, Carnegie faced a constant challenge through his success; his values often conflicted with his success. Carnegie was able to offset this conflict through his donations to the public after his retirement from the

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: David
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie was first born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He was born to a poor family, though he grew up in a cultured home. Most of Carnegie’s family was self-taught. His father, William Carnegie, was politically active and usually wrote to the newspaper. Andrew Carnegie’s uncle, George Lauder, introduced him to the writings of Shakespeare and Robert Burns. He also influenced Carnegie’s later views of America. In the 1840‘s, an economic crisis

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Monika
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    5162000 Over the last hundred years many great people have come and gone. Only a few of these people have etched a legacy in history that puts them in a category of being influential through out the entire century. To achieve this state of supreme centennial importance ones impact must benefit not only the people living in the present but must also positively affect the men and women of the near and distant future. Anyone

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie helped to develop the American economy. He made a company that was in the Dow Jones industrials. He introduced the Bessemer method of steel production to the United States. Think what could have happened without his companies existence, who would have produced steel for transcontinental railroads, the weapons that protect our country against communist threats. Carnegie was not actually native born though, he was born in Scotland and moved to

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Yan
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835. The son of a weaver, he came with his family to the United States in 1848 and settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. At age thirteen, Carnegie went to work as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill. He then moved rapidly through a succession of jobs with Western Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1865, he resigned to establish his own business enterprises and eventually

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie was born into a poor working class family living in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835. His father operated a small hand looming business located in the family home. The Carnegies was literate, well read, and active in the politics of the day. It was a time of repression of the Scottish worker by the Government, the employers, and the culture. Rebellious in thought as well as actively participating in protests

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Vika
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American businessman and major philanthropist. He made a vast contrubution to the steel making world during the time of industrilizim. Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the United States. His great innovation was in the cheap and efficient mass production of steel rails for railroad lines. Carnegie's empire would later embrace the Edgar Thomson

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Top
  • The Gospel of Wealth Written by Andrew Carnegie

    The Gospel of Wealth Written by Andrew Carnegie

    Wealth “The Gospel of Wealth” written by Andrew Carnegie discusses the post Civil War industrial expansion era, a time that produced immense wealth for many business tycoons. Andrew Carnegia, an elite industrialist, created a very large wealth for himself during this time. Some of the elite industrialists tried to change their “robber baron image by curbing their often ostentatious lifestyles and seeking opportunities to enhance the community.” Andrew for one, decided that it was imperative

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Top
  • Andrew Carnegie Essay

    Andrew Carnegie Essay

    Andrew Carnegie Essay In the nineteenth century, when I hear the word Captain of Industry the name Andrew Carnegie comes to mind. Rather than being a Robber Baron, I believe Carnegie deserves the title Captain of Industry for many reasons. One reason would be that he came from being a poor young boy in Scotland, to being one of the richest men in America years after he and his family immigrated to the United States

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Yan
  • Andrew Carnegie Biography

    Andrew Carnegie Biography

    The life of Andrew Carnegie is a good example of a real "rags to riches" story. He was born to a poor Scottish family that immigrated to the United States. Later, Carnegie became a powerful businessman and a leading force in the American steel industry. Now, he is remembered as an industrialist, millionaire, and philanthropist. With Carnegie’s creed that the wealthy population had an unwritten obligation to give back to society, much of his fortune

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Victor
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    Vir Mehta M,T,W,Th 11:50-1:50 Andrew Carnegie, Immigration, and the Importance of the American Dream during the Industrial Revolution ________________ All around the world, when you ask citizens of most other countries to briefly discuss the United States of America, almost every individual will include the phrase “American Dream” in their response. Even though these may appear like just two words, the deeper philosophical meaning that these couple of words carry is incredibly significant to understanding

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    Submitted: February 16, 2016 By: btye56
  • The Life of Andrew Jackson

    The Life of Andrew Jackson

    The Life Of Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson's parents were Scotch-Irish folk who came to America two years before his birth in 1767. His mother was widowed while pregnant with him. The Revolutionary War that soon followed, was very bloody in the rather wild and poor country where they lived, and Jackson at 13 years, joined a regiment. Captured by the British, he was wounded and nearly killed by a sword for not polishing a British

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    Submitted: January 7, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism

    Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism

    Brian Galbally November 2, 2000 History, 7th period Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism Andrew Jackson was not plainly a common man or an aristocrat, in fact a combination of the two. He came into popularity on the frontier and was not of aristocratic decent he is often considered to be a common man. From the beginning of his career in Tennessee, he considered himself an aristocrat. As a result his tastes, manners

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson was born in 1767, and grew up in the border of North and South Carolina. He attended frontier schools and acquired the reputation of being fiery-tempered and willing to fight all comers. He also learned to read, and he was often called on by the community to read aloud the news from the Philadelphia papers. In 17, with the beginning of the American Revolution, Andrew Jackson, then only 13 years old became an

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    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • The Impeachmnet of Andrew Johnson

    The Impeachmnet of Andrew Johnson

    The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson President Andrew Johnson assumed office following Lincoln's assassination. Johnson had his own ideas of Reconstruction and tried to take his own course of action in putting the Union back together following the Civil War. A series of bitter political quarrels between President Johnson and Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction Policy in the South eventually led to his impeachment. Radical Republicans wanted to enact a far-reaching transformation of Southern social

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    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Andrew Jakson - the New Democracy

    Andrew Jakson - the New Democracy

    The New Democracy When Jackson took office many things changed. The Spoils system was put into affect. The everyday man now had a bigger voice, and for once in a long time the people; not the electoral collage or corrupt senators and congressmen ran the nation. When the Federalists had dominated, democracy was not respected, but by the 1820s, it was widely appealing. Politicians now had to bend to appease and appeal to the masses,

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    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Andrew Jakson - the New Democracy

    Andrew Jakson - the New Democracy

    The New Democracy When Jackson took office many things changed. The Spoils system was put into affect. The everyday man now had a bigger voice, and for once in a long time the people; not the electoral collage or corrupt senators and congressmen ran the nation. When the Federalists had dominated, democracy was not respected, but by the 1820s, it was widely appealing. Politicians now had to bend to appease and appeal to the masses,

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    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    With the assassination of President Lincoln, the presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southerner named Andrew Johnson. Although an honest and honorable man, Andrew Johnson was one of the most unfortunate Presidents. Over time there has been a controversial debate as to whether Johnson deserved to be impeached, or if it was an unconstitutional attempt by Congress to infringe upon the president’s authority. The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was politically motivated. The spirit of the Jacksonian

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Andrew

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