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The Shaping of American Culture, image, Science, image, image, image,…

- - - - Washington was an African American writer and civil rights leader. He also created the concept "Five Fingers" that represented important areas of the economy. In his 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech, Washington states "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
    - - Du Bois was a major civil rights activist. He was the founder of the NAACP and the Crisis. In "The Talented Tenth," Du Bois states that "Nevertheless, I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men; there are two means of making the carpenter a man, each equally important: the first is to give the group and community in which he works, liberally trained teachers and leaders to teach him and his family what life means; the second is to give him sufficient intelligence and technical skill to make him an efficient workman."
- - - - Carnegie was a philanthropist, and was a self made millionaire. In his "Gospel of Wealth," he states In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all."
- - - - In Dale Carnegie's writing ow this Book was Written and Why," he states that “the reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.”
  - - - Helped portray what gender roles exemplified in the 1700s.
        From her piece of writing titled "Letters," she states "remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could."
    - - Rowlandson was a puritan woman who describes having to meet expectations as a woman during this time, and what the reality of this was like. In "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God," she states "Thus were we butchered by those merciless heathen, standing amazed, with the blood running down to our heels. My eldest sister being yet in the house, and seeing those woeful sights, the infidels hauling mothers one way, and children another, and some wallowing in their blood."