Write 6 page essay on the topic Andrew Carnegie.Download file to see previous pages... 17). The essay hereby aims to present a full story of Andrew Carnegie and his impact on American history. Initial

Write 6 page essay on the topic Andrew Carnegie.

17). The essay hereby aims to present a full story of Andrew Carnegie and his impact on American history. Initially, personal details of his life would be proffered before identifying relevant work experiences and challenges that have rendered Carnegie’s life exemplary and worth noting. Finally, the impact of his life and contributions on American history would be determined prior to a concluding portion that would summarize highlights of the discourse. Carnegies’ parents: William Carnegie and Margaret Morrison (Scottish Connections, par. 7), were instrumental in the development of his personality that recognized the need for hard work to survive and break through the poverty that he was immersed to as a young boy. His father was a weaver and his mother supported them through “opening a small grocery shop and mending shoes” (American Experience, par. 2). He had a brother, six years younger than him, named Thomas. As averred in his autobiography, “this is where the children of honest poverty have the most precious of all advantages over those of wealth. The mother, nurse, cook, governess, teacher, saint, all in one. the father, exemplar, guide, counselor, and friend! Thus were my brother and I brought up. What has the child of millionaire or nobleman that counts compared to such a heritage?” (Carnegie, 21). ...

22). Work Experiences Carnegie has been known as a businessman, a steel magnate, and a philanthropist. In 1848, the family decided to migrate to America in Pittsburg where his mother’s sisters reside. It is here that Carnegie started a lifelong career that traced its roots from meager beginnings working initially as a bobbin boy, messenger, an operator of the telegraph office, a private secretary and personal telegrapher to Thomas A. Scott, prior to pursuing endeavors that catapulted him to fame. Several people assisted Carnegie in his work experiences, who were mentioned in detail in his autobiography. Colonel James Anderson, founder of Free Libraries in Pennsylvania, specifically to working boys, was imprinted in Carnegie’s memory as instrumental in his interest to expand his knowledge through access to books his library. Colonel John P. Glass who appointed him to take messages and watch the office in his absence. And of course, Thomas A. Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad who had taught him discipline and integrity in his work. Carnegie’s entrepreneurial vision came into a proactive stance after the Civil War when opportunities abound in terms of building bridges, at the onset. The American Experience indicated that “by the time the war was over, Carnegie saw the potential in the field and resigned from Pennsylvania Railroad. It was one of many bold moves that would typify Carnegie's life in industry and earn him his fortune. He then turned his attention to the Keystone Bridge Company, which worked to replace wooden bridges with stronger iron ones” (par. 10). His future endeavors in alliance with Henry Bessemer discovering the process of refining steel by converting huge batches of iron.