Personal Narrative: The Men Who Built America

An intellectual experience that I had in the year was when my dad was watching a documentary and suggested that we watch. He said it was titled “The Men who Built America” when I started watching it was talking about a man named J.P. Morgan, a name that I was familiar with but couldn’t place. I was interested on what he had done and why he was so incredibly influential to the economy, and I was shocked how powerful was presented as. Later I learned that he was the founder of some of the largest banks know today, and the two others that had reached a status similar to him where Rockefeller, who dominated the oil industry, and Andrew Carnegie who dominated the steel industry. While their trusts where eventually broken up by government they all became influential in American business, where even today have been influential in steering business practices and regulations. Also

Some of the students cheated on vocabulary quizzes by hiding the vocabulary list near them where they could still see it, and since it was a short (2-3 minutes) quiz the teacher wouldn’t make people put binders fully away. In one instance a student had a vocabulary list next to his desk, I was temped to look at it because I had blanked on the answers but then thought otherwise. I thought about the statement that “character is acting well when no one is watching”. I thought that it would not be worth it to cheat on anything, even not directly not because of getting caught (I wouldn’t have since it wasn’t my paper) but because I need to think about what kind of person that would make me, if I did and continued down a wrong path. My parents brought me up to be moral, and I would loose a key value in cheating, no matter how small the quiz. Since then I have been devoted to a high moral standard for the sake of my future self and the person I hope to