commissioned to paint a mural for the Rockefeller center in Manhattan‚ New York. The mural’s name was Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future. While painting Rivera included a power Mexican communist and Russian revolutionary‚ Vladimir Lenin. Lenin was not in the sketch that Nelson Rockefeller had originally approved. The face of Lenin created controversy in the United States and upset some citizens. When Rockefeller asked for Lenin’s face to be
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Lapon‚ Lenny. “Mass Murderers in White Coats (From Harvard to Buchenwald: A Chronology of Psychiatry and Eugenics” http://www.operationmorningstar.org/mass_murderers_in_white_coats1.htm‚ 2011. Messall‚ Rebecca. “The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade” October 11‚ 2005 http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles5/MessallEugenics.php Feingold‚ Henry. Bearing witness how America and its Jews responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse‚ N.Y: Syracuse UP‚ 1995. http://jessicadillon.wordpress.
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Progressive Era was a time of national reform in the sense of America was purging itself of corruption and evil. The time just prior to this reform was full of government corruption and national poverty. A small amount of people such as John D. Rockefeller‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ J.P. Morgan‚ and Cornelius Vanderbilt were extremely wealthy from their monopolies. However‚ the vast majority of Americans were lower class working families. During this time period there was not much of a middle class; there
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institutions recognized her artistic contributions during her lifetime. In 1934‚ she became the first woman to receive the bronze medal for Indian Achievement by the Indian Fire Council. In 1939 John D. Rockefeller‚ Jr.‚ a patron of her work‚ asked her to lay the cornerstone for the Rockefeller Center in New York City. Four universities including the University of New Mexico and the University of Colorado conferred on her the honorary doctorate degree. The American Institute of Architects gave her
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during the civil war‚ especially in the North. This allowed people to travel farther‚ faster‚ and cheaper‚ as well as products and raw materials. This resulted in a nationwide market‚ and also big business for people like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. The Rockefellers and Carnegies of the nation did three very important things - they used horizontal and vertical integration‚ creating monopolies which controlled the market‚ keeping other company’s products cheaply priced. Also‚ they battled
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Dongkyu Khu p.0 I. The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse 1. 2. 3. ○ ○ 4. 5. After the Civil War‚ railroad production grew enormously‚ from 35‚000 mi. of track laid in 1865 to a whopping 192‚556 mi. of track laid in 1900. Congress gave land to railroad companies totally 155‚504‚994 acres. For railroad routes‚ companies were allowed alternate milesquare Railroads gave land their value; towns where railroads ran became sprawling cities while those skipped by railroads sank into ghost II
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In the end America needed industrial titans like Rockefeller and Carnegie. America was a young country so it was only right that it grew in time. Form this growth came new technologies. Also in a way Americans benefited from monopolies. It helped that some industrial titans were philanthropist. The way that America was growing it needed new technologies. Industrial titans did have very corrupt ways of business but they were only filling the demands of Americans. For many reasons people need access
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large businesses like steel making‚ oil production and the railroads making them some of the most powerful men in the world; the wealth was obtained by using child labor‚ trying to destroy the middle class and destroying all competition. John D. Rockefeller took advantage of children in his coal mines to by making them workers called breaker boys. Most breakers were 8-12 year old boys or old men who couldn’t do anything else. Breaker boys removed impurities from coal by picking them out. After working
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Teachings of Machiavelli: Political Virtu or Economic Supremacy In his famous text The Prince‚ Machiavelli introduces his thoughts on virtu to the political arena. Many today see Machiavelli as evil and sinister because he goes against certain Christian virtues by asserting that ruling with an iron fist is most effective. I contend that Machiavelli’s teachings are sound and legitimate‚ but not in the political sense. Rather‚ I would argue the ideals taught in The Prince are more effective from
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Nghi Bui Professor Kern History 1302 - 5055 Feb 2nd‚ 2015 Industrialization and reform (1870 – 1916) After the Civil War‚ the United States owned an abundant amount of natural resource‚ an expanding market for manufactured goods‚ a growing supply of labor and availabilities of capital for investment. In addition‚ the federal government vigorously promoted industrial development which stimulated the American economy to change dramatically from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era. However‚ the progress
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