"I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life." “I don’t care half so much about making money as I do about making my point‚ and coming out ahead” What do I care about law? Ain’t I got the power? Hi‚ I’m Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ and I was a self-made entrepreneur‚ ‚ a great railroad baron‚ and the wealthiest man in the United States throughout the 19th century. Earlier in my business career‚ I was probably the greatest shipping tycoon in the United States. My estate
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Cornelius Vanderbilt (Shipping and Railroad Tycoon) Overview On the north side of East 42nd Street‚ at the Park Avenue intersection‚ stands one of New York’s most admired buildings: Grand Central Terminal. Once the capitol of the New York Central Railroad empire‚ it remains the city’s glittering gate for tens of thousands of travelers each day. Over the entrance looms a larger-than-life bronze statue of the man who made it possible‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt. The memorial is fitting‚ even though
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1/245278 R.J. Beale/30595827 Rebecca Beale 30595827 CLS2601 Assignment 1 245278 CONTENTS: Table of Contents Page Septimius Severus 2 Bibliography 3 Page 1 CLS2601 Assignment 1/245278 R.J. Beale/30595827 Lucius Septimius Severus (AD 145-211): Septimius Severus was the first Roman Emperor from Africa. He was born in Leptis Magna which was a Roman city in Libya‚ in the province of Africa. Severus took power after the death of Commodus in AD 193. He reigned
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sorrowful story of Lucius and Tarquinius‚ two friends from vastly different backgrounds and upbringings. The setting is 78 AD in the great Roman Empire. Lucius is a slave and works for the family of Tarquinius‚ a young and adventurous Roman citizen of noble birth. Despite the fact that Lucius is a slave‚ Tarquinius always saw him as an equal. They developed a great relationship with each other as Tarquinius grew from a child to a young adult. Their relationship was mutualistic. Lucius would give wise
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Frankenstein was very fond of natural philosophy because philosophy means the love of wisdom. He found a volume of works by Cornelius Agrippa‚ an ancient philosopher‚ by chance. In fact‚ Frankenstein is committed to Agrippa’s theory. Due to Agrippa‚ he found something that was entirely new to him. He not only felt delighted in finding such a stunning volume of works‚ but also became enthusiastic over it. Even though his father did not think Agrippa’s theory was useful for Frankenstein‚ he still
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Apuleius‚ Lucius. "From The Golden Ass." The Portable Roman Reader. Ed. Basil Davenport. Harmondsworth: Penguin‚ 1979. 619-641. Print. In "Cupid and Psyche‚" which constitutes a part of "The Golden Ass‚" Lucius Apuleius recounts a tale disconnected from the main protagonists about a young woman named Psyche and her relationship with Cupid‚ teaching of both the dangers of curiosity and false appearances. Apuleius relates that‚ "Psyche‚ meantime‚ aware of her loveliness‚ had no fruit thereof. All people
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Cornelius I like good people and nearly all my life I have been around good people. Oh‚ I have known a scalawag now and then‚ but most of the people I have known have been very fine people and I have enjoyed being with them. I like to read about good people and I have a number of volumes in my library about great men who were pioneers; who a long time ago made possible the work that is going on‚ even today‚ in the church. And I enjoy reading those books. But‚ the best man that I have ever read
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Cornelius Vanderbilt was one of America’s leading Business tycoons in the early 18th century. Many believed his genius and success as a businessman was contributed to his ability to seize upon opportunities that appeared unexpectedly. Some even thought that because Vanderbilt was so successful‚ he had planned everything in advance. Born poor ‚ Vanderbilt had used his obvious aptitude for business‚ and luck to amass his empire‚ involving himself in the steam engine‚ both on land and sea. He tried
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S.A.L.T.S Application September10‚ 2012 Dear Administration and Teaching Staff This letter is my application to be apart of the S.A.L.T.S sailing trip. This trip sounds like a unique learning experience. I recently had the opportunity to go on a fishing charter. After this experience it made me want to spend more time on boats and the ocean just like my grandpa and dad did in the past. On the trip I experienced helping my dad with steering and sounding
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during Nero’s Reign The text we have chosen is a chapter of historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus’s work called “The Annals.” The chapter is titled Tacitus: On Homosexuality and focuses primarily on slight themes of homosexuality during Emperor Nero’s reign. The type of document is an annal (akin to its name)‚ which is a concise form of historical representation that is chronologically written by year. Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman senator who lived from 56 AD to 117AD‚ and chronicled the
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