Hershey The Great American Chocolate Bar

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Term Paper Title	Hershey The Great American Chocolate Bar
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Hershey the Great American Chocolate Bar

     When Jean deCrevecoeur said of the new America, “Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world,” he knew what he was talking about.  Americans have changed the world in many ways with their own contributions.  One contribution that many Americans and people all over the world can’t live with out is chocolate and a candy bar called Hershey.
     Chocolate comes from the cacao bean.  The history of chocolate spans from 200 B.C. to present day.  The fruits scientific name is “Theobroma Cacao” which means “Food of the gods.”  Over 2000 years ago the Mayan Indians worshipped the cacao bean as an idol.  Hernando Cortez tasted “Cacahuatt,” in 1519, a chocolate drink enjoyed by the last Aztec emperor Montezuma II.  Cortez brought the beans back with him to Spain and there the drink was made, then heated with sweeteners added.  The new drink was kept a secret to be enjoyed by nobility, but the secret was revealed and the drink’s fame was spread to other lands.  By the  mid-1600s it had gained much popularity and one Frenchman opened the first hot chocolate shop in London.  Chocolate houses were every where in England by the 1700s(“Food of the Gods” 1).
     Chocolate has come a long way from the days of Cortez.  It has been used in many countries in foods and drinks however, it was in America that the world’s most famous bar of chocolate would change the way so many of us enjoy the sweet treat.  In 1894 Milton Hershey established the Hershey Chocolate Company where  Hershey’s cocoa, Hershey’s baking chocolate, and Hershey’s sweet chocolate were manufactured.

     “Hershey was called the “Henry Ford” of chocolate because he mass produced a quality chocolate bar at a price everyone could afford(1).”  It is said that he was modest and unassuming in appearance, not the type you would pick out in the

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crowd, but  Mr. Hershey was a shrewd and determined businessman (“Milton S. Hershey” 1).
     Hershey was born on September 13th, 1857  near the Central Pennsylvania village of Derry Church (“Milton S. Hershey and the Town Built On Chocolate” 1).  He only attended school to fourth grade before he was put to work as a printer’s apprentice in Gap,PA.  Soon he soon got himself fired by dropping his straw hat into the printing press (“Milton S. Hershey” 2).  Hershey then went on  and became an apprentice to a candy maker in Lancaster, PA.  He ...

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