Now write a 250-word essay in which you evaluate and analyze sources 1, 2, and 3. In your essay, focus on
three or four of the predictions and discuss whether they have come true. What words did the authors
use to describe them? What details did they give? If these predictions came true, how would you describe
them? If they didn't, do you think they may be possible in the future? Why or why not?
Why do you think people try to predict the future? What skills might enable someone to make an accurate
prediction? Cite your sources in parentheses within the text.
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Can you summarize this? it takes time and caution to perfect anything which must be concealed. it takes time to crush men who are pursuing legitimate trade. but one of mr. rockefeller’s most impressive characteristics is patience. there never was a more patient man, or one who could dare more while he waited. the folly of hurrying, the folly of discouragement, for one who would succeed, went hand in hand. everything must be ready before he acted, but while you wait you must prepare, must think, work. "you must put in, if you would take out." his instinct for the money opportunity in things was amazing, his perception of the value of seizing this or that particular invention, plant, market, was unerring.