In a paragraph identify two of the main ideas of this passage and explain what supporting details are given to support those main ideas? although andrew carnegie became a millionaire, he did not start life as one. he was born in 1835 into a working-class family in dunfermline, scotland. in 1848 his family immigrated to the united states and settled in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. when carnegie was 13 he got his first job in a textile mill earning $1.20 a week. how old were you when you got your first job? he then took a job in a factory tending the steam engine. can you guess how much he was paid for that job? carnegie earned $2 a week tending a steam engine. the next year, carnegie worked as a messenger boy in a telegraph office for $2.50 per week. because of his quickness and hard work, he was soon promoted to telegraph operator and was paid $5 a week. slowly but surely, carnegie was working his way up. in 1853, he went to work for the pennsylvania railroad for $35 per month as the personal telegrapher and assistant to thomas scott, a superintendent. under scott, carnegie learned all about the railroad industry and later became a superintendent himself. scott also taught andrew about investing in the stock market. what do you know about the stock market? scott explained to carnegie that when a company performed well, it paid "dividends" out of its profits to people who owned its stock. when carnegie received his first dividend check, he shouted, "here's the goose that laid the golden eggs! " do you know what he meant? this money was the first he had ever received without having worked for it himself. the golden eggs he was talking about meant that carnegie had learned to let his money work for him.

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

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