Summary This biography of Andrew Carnegie starts off focusing on his family\'s immigration to the United States of America and their reason for doing so. He was born in Scotland in 1835 and came to the United States in 1848. It then talks about his apprenticeships as both a manager and as a financ...

Reeves, Richard. President Kennedy: Profile of Power. Touchstone, 1993. Richard Reeves is best known as a writer, syndicated columnist, and producer of several documentary films. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. He was...

In my spare time, as I softly rest comfortably on my bed, I peruse the contents of my life. I flip through the pages, looking for an answer perhaps. Sometimes, I just search for a sign that I realize what I do every day and why. What I realize instead is that I can only become more aware of myself b...

Leadership. It surrounds us. It is the fundamental element of the human condition. Wherever society exists, leadership exists. There are infinite variations of leadership among us. People routinely shift between leader and follower functions during a concise period. Specific leaders are well known a...

Carl Sandburg, born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois (Griffith 108). Sandburg's parents August and Clara Anderson Sandburg were Swedish immigrants who came from Sweden in 1875. In Galesburg Carl only completed eight years of education before dropping out at the age of eleven. Sandburg...

The Liberal Martin Luther King Jr. Ideology: "Any comprehensive and mutually consistent set of ideas by which s social group makes sense of the world. An ideology needs to provide some explanation of how things have come to be as they are, some indication of where they are heading (to pro...

The name Anne Geddes is synonymous with precious children in creative backgrounds. She is known in North and South America, Europe, the British Isles,Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. She is often called "One if the world's most respectedand successful professional photographers," because of her a...

Walt Whitman was looked upon as the forerunner of 20th Century poetry, praising democracy, and becoming a proclaimed poet of American democracy. He was known as the "Son of Long Island," and he loved his country and everything about it. (Current, Williams, Freidel- page 292-293). Whitman lived du...

The Influence Writings of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin is one of the best-known figures in American history. His industrious rise to success, his role in this country\'s struggle for independence, and his investigations into the mysteries of electricity are among his famous accomplishmen...

Meantime, the first pattern of arrivals of Asians to America - in any significant numbers - were the Chinese, in who were pushed out of their homeland but also drawn to the opportunities for employment in Hawaii, the American West, and British Columbia. There were also Korean, Fili...

Compare and contrast the work of at least two poets on the theme of American society and its values._________________________________________________________________________Walt Whitman (1819-92) wrote, "The chief reason for the being of the United States of America is to bring about the common good...

Abstract:o The tree investigated was the Quercus. Pinus, L. This was a very interesting tree. To find out all information on this tree, steps were taken by doing hands on work to determine height, age, circumference, leaf and stem differences. Taking layers off the epidermis of the leaf, a tr...

Problems and Promise Since the United States started counting the population, African Americans have always been the most dominant minority. However, now Hispanics outnumber African Americans as the largest minority group, with 38.8 million of them now living in the USA, according to Census Burea...

The 1960's were one of the most significant decades in the twentieth century. The sixties were filled with new music, clothes, and an overall change in the way people acted, but most importantly it was a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from ...

One of the greatest heroes the world has ever known Charles Augustus Lindbergh. He is most famous for his transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. Lindbergh acquired great fame for doing "good will" tours in Latin America. Other than politicians and war heroes no one has yet quit...

Andrew Jackson is widely regarded as one of the most popular Presidents in United States history. While his Presidency was certainly well-intentioned, Jackson\'s negative aspects have lasted longer than many of his positive ones. Considering all aspects of the administration, Jackson\'s years in off...

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in the Waxhaw area near the border between North and South Carolina on March 15, 1767. During his presidency, US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which Andrew Jackson signed into law. Before the law was passed, the earliest ...

John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859, involved only a handful of abolitionists, freed no slaves, and was over in two days. Although many Northerners condemned the raid, by 1863, John Brown had become a hero and martyr in the North. John Brown was a...

Abraham Lincoln was assuredly one of the greatest presidents in American history. This is demonstrated by his persistence and determination, his effective administration during the Civil War, the creation of policies that benefited everyone in the United States, and the efforts that kept the United ...

Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell which is now become Albemarle County Virginia on April 13, 1743. Jefferson came from a strong pedigree, his mother Jane Randolph Jefferson came from one of the first families in Virginia. Jefferson\'s father Peter Jefferson was a wealthy landowner in Virginia bu...

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman's work has now become legendary. Although he has that accomplishment for his poetry, he had a rough beginning. Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in Long Island, New York. He was the second of nine children. He attended school in Brooklyn after his family moved t...

James Monroe was born in 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. In 1776 he served as an officer in the continental army and saved the Battle of Trenton against the British. During the battle, he was standing at his post, and a farmer came out and told them to get off his property. The battle was on ...

Jimmy Carter, formally known as James Earl Carter, Jr., was born on October 1, 1924, and was the oldest of four children. He was born in a small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. Jimmy\'s father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a peanut farmer and a storeke...

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born into a modest family, but later became to be one of the greatest statesmen in the country. He shaped this country's course of events, which forever changed the way we live today.Ben Franklin made many contribution...

The twenties are known to have been a decade of vast crime and racketeering, this is a directly due to the prohibition of alcohol. The passing of the of the 18th Amendment was supposed to mark the beginning of the "new era." In this time period there would no longer be legal sales of alcoholic bev...