Rags to Riches Harold Livesay’s Andrew Carnegie and the Rise to Big Business portrayed Andrew Carnegie as a perfect example of the American Dream. From rags to riches is a journey that Andrew Carnegie portrayed through out his life. He was born into poverty in Scotland‚ moving to America in 1848. Andrew Carnegie started as a bobbin boy to one of the first tycoons of big business in America. With the jobs he did hold he applied the knowledge and techniques from job to job to generate his fortunes
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A hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage‚ outstanding achievements or noble qualities. These heros put their best selves forward in service to help humanity. Heros take action on behalf of others that are in need. Andrew Carnegie was in fact was a hero. This subject can be controversial because of the fact that Carnegie gave away money after he died‚ and not while he was alive. Carnegie started off in a very poor family and eventually became very wealthy. This shows the world that
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Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1865‚ he quit and started his own business‚ the famous and notorious Carnegie Steel Company. His company was responsible for starting the steel industry in Pittsburgh‚ and he and his company left their imprint on industry and big business for years to come. He retired at the age of 65 and sold his company to J.P Morgan for 480 million dollars. Carnegie has been shown as a cutthroat businessman and his company as a ruthless monopoly in the history
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the Carnegie Steel Mill and owned by Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie thought that the labor union at the Homestead Steel Mill made it harder on the manager to run their business proficiently. Carnegie was out of town at the time of the strike but he knew that it was going to happen so he warned the steel mill top managers. The Labor Union which was called Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers was highly upset about the pay drop that was going to happen. Because the price of steel was dropping
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was where he primarily live till he died. He was born in 1835‚ sailed to America in 1848‚ Helped in the war in 1861‚ wrote a letter to himself in 1868‚ in 1872 he met Bessemer (He gave Andrew the heads up on steel)‚ 1883 after a success in steel acquired a coal mill‚ in 1890 he had many steel mills and many other industries were about to be acquired as well‚ in 1901 he sold all of his company’s holdings for $480‚000‚000 (His share was $225‚000‚000)‚ He died in 1919 after much philanthropy. A hero
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to mind is either there sports teams or that it is the birthplace of mass-produced steel. Steel is what made Pittsburgh such a major city in today’s world; without steel‚ it would be a normal suburban city. It only took one person to make Pittsburgh such a major thriving city‚ Andrew Carnegie. Without him‚ Pittsburgh would not be as advanced as it is today. Without Andrews’s passion we could possibly not have steel. Ever since Andrew was a child he put his full effort into everything he did. He
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disgraced” John Perricone Period 6 Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? Andrew Carnegie is known as the king of steel. He was born November 25‚ 1835 in Dunfermline‚ Scotland Andrew Carnegie was one of the wealthiest United States businessmen of the nineteenth century‚ an entrepreneur‚ and a philanthropist. After many years of thoughtful planning and hard work‚ Carnegie Steel Company was a dominant force in the steel industry.... Would you want to work long hours in a factory for little pay? No? I didn’t think
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pipelines‚ and stunned top competitors. One of whom was Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie‚ investing everything‚ gains millions by producing steel. This introduced a new way to build homes and now sky-high business buildings in the city. Another industrial titan was J.P. Morgan. Trying to make a household name for himself‚ Morgan does everything from buying out conflicting companies to making electricity widespread. Lastly‚ Henry Ford develops a new way of transportation‚ the Model T automobile. This car was
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tending to steam train boilers‚ and then worked his way up from there. The train boilers company then gave him a job as a telegraph messenger boy.
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Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline‚ Scotland. His family moved to the states when he was in his teens. He had many jobs working on the railroad‚ starting at the bottom by working for people‚ but soon made his way into a steel tycoon. Carnegie owned the Carnegie Steel Corporation‚ which it was known as the largest of its kind in the world. Just like Andrew did‚ he believes that children should not start out with a bunch of money. They should have to learn and work their way up to become as great
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