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1.The Gilded Age was the period of American history during the mid to late 1880’s.  It received the title “Gilded Age” from the author Mark Twain, who considered it a time which appeared “golden,” yet underneath was corrupt and selfish, and therefore at least in a moral sense not “golden.”

1.The Gilded Age was the period of American history during the mid to late 1880’s.  It received the title “Gilded Age” from the author Mark Twain, who considered it a time which appeared “golden,” yet underneath was corrupt and selfish, and therefore at least in a moral sense not “golden.”

2.All around Thomas Edison must have been a good person, but what I find most amazing about him is his work ethic.  Very few people can even bear to do as much work as he did, let alone recognize the necessity of work and maybe even enjoy it.  “Do you think homeschooling him created enormous wealth?”  Well, I’m sure being homeschooled helped to form his character, focus on his interests, and live up to his full potential.  He probably wouldn’t have invented so much or had so great a work ethic if he hadn’t had to basically educate himself.  However, because he had such a great ethic and so much skill, I think he still would have been an inventor, or done something else beneficial to world if he was publicly educated.

2.All around Thomas Edison must have been a good person, but what I find most amazing about him is his work ethic.  Very few people can even bear to do as much work as he did, let alone recognize the necessity of work and maybe even enjoy it.  '''“Do you think homeschooling him created enormous wealth?”''' Well, I’m sure being homeschooled helped to form his character, focus on his interests, and live up to his full potential.  He probably wouldn’t have invented so much or had so great a work ethic if he hadn’t had to basically educate himself.  However, because he had ''such'' a great ethic and ''so'' much skill, I think he still would have been an inventor, or done something else beneficial for the world if he was publicly educated.

3.It probably gave them a great sense of hope and aspiration.  The image of the unsettled West and wild frontier, full of tough American sharpshooters and Indian savages, was unique to America, and the thought of taming this wilderness was an aspiration only Americans could have.  The gold and silver rushes also gave Americans hope of wealth in the frontier lands.  

3.It probably gave them a great sense of hope and aspiration.  The image of the unsettled West and wild frontier, full of tough American sharpshooters and Indian savages, was unique to America, and the thought of taming this wilderness was an aspiration only Americans could have.  The gold and silver rushes also gave Americans hope of wealth in the frontier lands.