The word entrepreneur is derived from the French word “Entreprendre”, which is loosely translated to English as, to mean, to do something or to undertake. Therefore, entrepreneur defined as someone who undertakes a business venture. The first academic to use the word was the economist Richard Cantillon in 1730; Cantillon adds a risk taker element into the definition. The basic definition of an entrepreneur is a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with
Caribbean Crucible: History, Culture, and Globalization Kevin A. Yelvington In the present age of globalization, it is often forgotten that these world-encompassing processes were initiated with European expansion into the Caribbean beginning more than five hundred years ago. We now see the proliferation of overseas factories enabling owners, producers, and consumers of products to be in widely distant locales. It seems to us that in the search for profits, commercial activity has recently spread
assisted suicide advocates are forced to take their case before the court of public opinion where they are losing support. During the last year, national support for euthanasia has fallen 18 percentage points. In l996, 75 percent of Americans said they favored permitting a doctor to end a patient's life. (2) Now, that support has fallen to 57 percent. (3) This change reflects the fact that, as people learn more about assisted suicide, their opposition to it grows. In a very short time
Neanderthals had begun to develop in hominid populations in Europe about 400,000 years ago and approximately 150,000 years ago in western Asia (Krause et al. 2007). These traits would start to become more prominent through the aid of early dispersals, which derived from Africa where two geographical routes were possible. One passage went through Ethiopian and Arabian regions towards South Asia and the second passage went through North African regions, including the Middle East, towards Eurasia (Lahr and Foley
set out a practical methodology for implementing and monitoring its core goals. These rules are having a clearly ethical basis to the business, having appropriate goals and the capability to achieve it through suitable stakeholder decision making model, having an effective strategy process which incorporates stakeholder value, creating an organisation suitably structured to effect good corporate governance and lastly having reporting systems structured to provide transparency and accountability.
alcohol, is a huge problem that affects the entire world. In particular, in America it seemed a good idea to increase the legal drinking age to 21 years old, to lower accidents that may be caused by alcohol consumers. The issue is to understand if this decision actually helped, or if the USA should reconsider to lower the drinking age to 18 years old again. Making something illegal for such a long time, does actually preserve people to not be overtaken by it once it becomes permitted? Allowing them
At the Laeken European Council of December 2001, government and state leaders of the European Union (EU) Member States decided to draft a `Constitutional Treaty' for the EU. The draft would then be discussed, amended, approved or rejected by an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) held in 2003. The aim of Fabbrini's article is thus to contribute to the understanding of the constitutional evolution of the EU through a comparison with the constitutional experience of the United States. Worth noting
is a constant treatment. [14] Addition to these methods, there is a third one that named peritoneal. [15] For the first time, it was described by Popovitch and Moncrieff in 1976 which received considerable interest at the sixteenth congress of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association held in Amsterdam. (10) Also an Iranian physician reported 9 case of treatment by this method and expressed the success of it on the chemical control of uremia and out disorders of enough water and salt. In this
Enlightenment period effect on the future of Latin America Two political revolutions arose from the Enlightenment philosophy: the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The motto of the French Revolution, “liberté, egalité, fraternité,” captures of the ideas they were fighting for: liberty, equality, and rights.1 News of this overthrowing of the government reached many places, one of those being Latin America. During the colonial period, a great social gap developed between the peninsulares
political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories”( Grant,2001,p.161). The most common being the upper, middle, and lower classes. The upper class consist of people or families that represent institutional leadership, heads of multinational corporations, foundations, and universities. They are people who have finical stability and are well educated due to their finical income. Most commonly in American society today people