You have been given readings on Samuel Colt and JP Morgan. Each student is to address the essay question below in a professional and coherent essay. Colt and Morgan, who are buried a few hundred feet apart in Hartford, CT, were very significant capitalists. Please compare or contrast these two captains of industry on the following criteria:
1. Family background.
2. Educational background.
3. Technical Expertise in creating new products.
4. Financial acumen in building companies.
5. Legacy.
You are free to use other sources, please acknowledge those sources, group members, professors, etc..., as a basis for crafting your essay response. Always write in your own voice and understand that I am your "boss" and I am very hard on students who don't produce quality work. I encourage you to approach this as a 2-3 page paper - double spaced - with multiple paragraphs. A good definition of compare and contrast essays from Wikipedia is:
Compare and contrast essays are characterized by a basis for comparison, points of comparison, and analogies. It is grouped by the object (chunking) or by point (sequential). The comparison highlights the similarities between two or more similar objects while contrasting highlights the differences between two or more objects. When writing a compare/contrast essay, writers need to determine their purpose, consider their audience, consider the basis and points of comparison, consider their thesis statement, arrange and develop the comparison, and reach a conclusion. Compare and contrast is arranged emphatically.