Carnegie Steel Company let into a big success with managed to help by his assistant, Henry Clay. As a philanthropist in his later years, Andrew Carnegie wasn't born in wealth because he came from Scotland. He had no access to formal education, in his early life, so he taught himself. He immigrated in the U.S. in 1848 and started a steel company. Steel was needed for railroads, built skyscraper, and cars. Andrew Carnegie was the first to mass produce steel. He practices the vertical integration
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Assignment 1.2: Industrialization After the Civil War David T. LaPradd Strayer University After the Civil War, the mass production of steel helped shape America. The mass production of steel allowed the country to increase the manufacturing of the equipment. This was significant in the production of the railway tracks and allowed the country to grow. This growth provided jobs for the working class, the ability to move the goods produced to the marketplaces, and moved the people
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violent turn because Henry Frick hired the National Pinkerton Detective Agency after the sheriff failed to contain the strikers. Frick had hired the National Pinkerton Detective Agency to help him secure the Homestead Factory to allow strikebreakers to enter safely and free of harassment. The Pinkertons were going to arrive by boat in the middle of the night so they could get to the factory undetected. The strikers however knew that the Pinkertons were coming and went to the riverbank to turn the factories
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The differents between Zinn and Foner of the Gilded Age is that Foner gives more details on how the railroad began. The important thing to Foner is that the Statue of Liberty is representing freedom. What is important to Zinn is the economic growth. They have different things that go on in the Gilded Age that is important to them and that they are focused on. Foner explains more about the railroads and how they began. In order for them to build the railroad the way that they wanted to be built is
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Both Edwin A. Robinson, and Edgar A. Poe use diction and metaphor to create their hauntingly beautiful poems but use different types of imagery to illustrate each character's emotions. Luke Havergal written by Edwin A. Robinson is a poem about a man who has lost a lover and being talked into following her into the afterlife. Annabel Lee written by Edgar A. Poe is a poem also about a man who has just lost a lover and is remeniscing on their life together and how she was pretty much stolen from him
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Symbolism in The Cask of Amontillado Symbols play an important part in literary works. Most stories are full of them, and each one adds detail and background to the story. Some of them are obvious, and others are hidden away like treasures waiting to be found. Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado is full of all types of symbolism, some examples being the setting, clothing, and even the character names. The biggest symbol in the Cast of Amontillado is the cask itself. Not only is it something
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there to give the reader hints about the story they are going to read. Titles tell how the story should be told. In detective fiction, it can give clues about the inevitable murder. Using examples from the stories: “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tape-Measure Murder”, and “The House on Goblin Wood” by John Dickson Carr, multiple connections between the story and its title will be explained. For the story “The House on Goblin Wood” by John Dickson Carr, the title is hinting at where
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Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe was an American author, poet, and literary critic. Additionally, Poe is an author considered to be an anti-transcendentalist and is well known for his poem “The Raven.” Poe also wrote rather dark stories often circulating around murder, revenge, torture, and insanity. Some of Poe’s short stories include “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “Murders in the Rue Morgue.” “And then there stole into my fancy,
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A Dream within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe’s Dream within a Dream (1), written in 1849 (2), is one of the most powerful English language poems of the 19th century. The power of Poe’s poem stems from its masterful use of rhyme, compactness and simplicity. It’s divided neatly into 2 stanzas, like bookends of a hallucination, the first one 11 lines, and the 2nd 13 lines. In the first stanza, the Poe wastes no time thrusting the reader immediately into his dream. As if sleepwalking, the reader is
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out of the triangle toward the drop to the white sand.” (127) | Poem excerpt | Insight | LOTF Excerpt | “From the thunder, and the storm- And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view-“ “alone” Edgar Allan Poe | In the same way the poem says that when the rest of the heaven was blue, there was a demon in their view, so its saying that when everything else is okay there is danger right in front of you. In LOTF it shows the confrontation of the beast and
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