A great man, really, in charge of having possibly the biggest oil refinery company in the world. John Rockefeller gave $506,816,041.18 to various Baptist churches and missionaries, education boards, universities, and foundations before he died in 1937. The greatest act of generosity by this man, but what does this really mean? Rockefeller actually used these donations to improve their image and to have their name live on forever. This only leads one to believe how dangerous a man with so much power can be.
He built hotels, and then bought railroads to connect them to other hotels, improving and even founding cities as he moved down the east coast to Miami. When others would have stopped, he saw the possibilities of continuing to Key West and accepted the challenge. By connecting an isolated string of islands to the rest of the world, Henry Morrison Flagler made his dream and The Keys come true. Born in Hopewell, New York in 1830, he left school at age 14 and moved to Ohio to work (and live) with his half-brother at a general store. Being a natural salesman, he quickly advanced from his original salary of $5 a month, and by age 22, he was partners with his half-brother in a grain business and distillery (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004).
The New Deal v Primary Sources v Franklin D. Roosevelt was governor of New York, when the Wall Street Crash in October 1929, created the worst depression in American history. Roosevelt made strenuous attempts to help those without work. He set up the New York State Emergency Relief Commission and appointed the respected Harry Hopkins to run the agency. Another popular figure with a good record for helping the disadvantaged, Frances Perkins, was recruited to the team as state industrial commissioner. With the help of Hopkins and Perkins, Roosevelt introduced help for the unemployed and those too old to work.
J.P. Morgan John Pierpont Morgan was born in Hartford, Connecticut on April 17, 1837. His father, Junius Spencer Morgan was a very wealthy and well off financier, it was his father who had taught J.P. about the family’s finances and business, which he was going to inherit as he became older. J.P. was a very talented young individual and was willing student who was educated at Boston’s English High School and then had enrolled in the University of Gottingen, in Germany. When he was in high school J.P. had already traveled and explored much of Europe and had sparked his love of art, which would stay with him throughout his life. After he had graduated from Gottingen at the age of 20, he had traveled back to New York to pursue a career in finance.
What comes to mind when you think of the word “traitor”? To many people the man Benedict Arnold is the first to mind. I read the book The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold by Clare Brandt. Born in 1971, he was one of two of his mother’s eleven children to survive into adulthood. While volunteering to serve for his country he fought with skill and courage in many campaigns during the American Revolution, not many people know that the description above is for the man Benedict Arnold, who is best known for betraying his country.
For my research paper I chose to focus on Lil Wayne. I admire him because he is hard working and he has gone through a lot to achieve his American dream and he never gave up on it. Lil Wayne's American dream was to have a better life for himself and move his family out of the ghetto. He had been trying to do that since he was young and then he finally got discovered at the age of 13 by Birdman who was a well-known local producer. He took Lil Wayne to the top and even though he had to drop out of high school it was wroth it because he is now worth over 24 Million dollars.
With the Palmer raids there was a man named Mitchell Palmer who was a Quaker. He was an attorney general, and invoked the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 allowing his troops to deport aliens without a trial or hearing. The differences are just the thirty year difference, but still the same hysteria. Security has evolved overtime making public places safer, but on the other hand has people still worried for
Bob was a legend in the rental business and was known all over the world for his keen business abilities. Only a year and a half ago, some of the executives of Rentall and some additional outside investors offered to buy Rentall from Bob. Bob was close to retirement, and the offer was unbelievable. His children and their children would be able to live in high style off the proceeds of the sale. Folley, Smith, and Christensen developed the contracts for the executives of Rentall and other investors, and the sale was made.
“Hard Times” Studs Terkel wrote the book, “Hard Times”, to get the American people of what it was like from every situation during the great depression. Terkel called in a memory book in by doing so it just didn’t have historical statistic proof but it showed emotion in each interviewee. It was where some of his colleagues’ shared hurtful memories while other expressed exhilaration, sometimes both. Terkel shared some of his experiences as well. He could not remember the black day of October but he does manage to have blur images he can put together of that horrific day.
Ben Zietlow Dr. Schroeder United States History Since 1945 November 21, 2011 “The Way to Peace: The Vision of Henry Agard Wallace” During the 1930s and 1940s, many people in the United States government organized for war. However, some strove for peace and the continuation of the reforms which began during the New Deal. One such man was Henry Agard Wallace, Vice President under Roosevelt from 1941 to 1945, and Secretary of Commerce until his resignation in 1946. In these key positions, Wallace was a direct witness to the momentous and often confusing events of those years. From 1942 to 1946, he kept a diary of his activities, encounters, and thoughts.