Question

Need help answering this question: Standard Oil has been characterized as a menacing octopus that devours small oil businesses. Look at the cartoon below. Bill Sikes is a fictional criminal from Charles wingspanens’ novel Oliver Twist. How does the nursery rhyme characterize Standard Oil? Write your own Nursery Rhyme to characterize one of the industrialists.

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Answer 1

please someone help me or at least explain how to write the rhyme

Answer 2

So do you have to make one of those picture things?

Answer 3

Found this online: Pockets full of Posie (the hiding of their ill gotten gains by listing them as profits)
Ashes, Ashes we all fall down. (the inevitable end result of the super rich pushing the middle class into poverty)

Answer 4

no i just have to answer....How does the nursery rhyme characterize Standard Oil? Write your own Nursery Rhyme to characterize one of the industrialists.

Answer 5

i dont understand what you found online..confused

Answer 6

???

Answer 7

He's portraying standard oil as a greedy monster, and smaller oil companies are falling as they become victim to the standard oil monopoly

Answer 8

yes i understand that but how do you make a nursery rhyme out of that?

Answer 9

okay so a nursery rhyme is like a little short story. Do you have to write it in essay form or make a poster like the one you showed me?

Answer 10

write it in essay form and i have no idea how..

Answer 11

Okay how long is it supposed to be?

Answer 12

short

Answer 13

it doesn't say so i would think like 100 words

Answer 14

okay so first you need to find an industrialist to write about. Do you have any ideas of what you want to write about?

Answer 15

the poster is what the rhyme is suppose to be about

Answer 16

no but let me see if i can find one in my lesson

Answer 17

so basically a nursery rhyme is just a essay?

Answer 18

It is more like a little poem that is about the character.

Answer 19

So just write a little poem that describes the character.

Answer 20

so how do you write a nursery rhyme by looking at the picture..

Answer 21

i suck at poems!

Answer 22

john Pierpont Morgan i need to write a nursery rhyme about him

Answer 23

or Andrew Carnegie

Answer 24

1. How does the nursery rhyme characterize Standard Oil?
So describe how it characterizes the nursery rhyme.
1. What did this man do that was good/bad?
2. write a few sentences about what he did.
3. change the sentences to make them rhyme by using other words.
4. If you can't figure out what to write to make it rhyme message me and I will help you. I have to go and eat dinner but I will be back on soon.

Answer 25

ok thanks!

Answer 26

no problem!

Answer 27

Andrew Carnegie found his own company and quickly rose straight to the top of the steel businesses highly quickly. By the end of that century, the Carnegie Steel Company dominated the United States Steel Industry. He retired and sold his company for four hundred eighty million dollars to a banker named J.P. Morgan. Andrew Carnegie gave away about three hundred fifty million dollars of his money in his lifetime, mostly to charities, finance scientific work, and to support education. Andrew was a good man and he believed that the wealthy people had a duty towards the rest of society, to produce the most beneficial result for the community.

Answer 28

i tried to message you but it wouldn't let me

Answer 29

i have no idea how to make this rhyme

Answer 30

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