During the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, there were two kinds of businessmen into a good or bad category, the Captains of the Industry, who created and grew new industries and made the nation wealthy and powerful; and the Robber Barons, who exploited their workers and illegally destroyed their competition. It was a time […]
The Myth of the Robber Barons, by Burton W. Folsom, describes the different “robber barons” and their qualities during the gilded age. The phrase “robber baron” refers to individuals like Vanderbilt, Hill, Schwab, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Mellon; these being individuals that used their economic and well-informed power to help America as a whole. Folsom’s book […]
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Get startedThere is a clear gender bias in professional level sports in the United States. This bias can be perceived in three different and unique ways. One way that this bias can be observed is in the workplace surrounding the professional sports industry. Women that are in jobs that relate to sports are discriminated against in […]
I love the place I live, in the heart of Texas. I get to experience all the metropolitan benefits and diverse geography yet I haven’t once been in the path of a twister, earthquake, or wildfire. That being said, I can’t say the same about everyone in this country; and I can’t deny that I […]
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty four days a year. This is how much Andrew Carnegie’s workers worked. Roughly half of their life was spent in his steel factories. This took place in the late 1800s, when large corporations were on the rise and small businesses were dwindling and […]
Oil and gas are important catalysts of industrialization, economic growth and important household commodities. The method of obtaining these natural products revolves around onshore fracking and offshore drilling (Jackson et al., 2). Fracking is a type of hydraulic fracturing of shale or bedrocks utilizing high pressures of water, sand and additives in order to obtain […]
Abstract The Public transport system is a major source of income in developing countries like India. Earlier to reserve a ticket people had to waste a lot of time by standing in a long queue. Bus needs a conductor to collect money and issue ticket to each passenger; it is time consuming, manual error like […]
