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    None[1][2][3] | Signature | | Jawaharlal Nehru (Hindustani: [ˈdʒəʋaːɦərˈlaːl ˈneːɦru] ( listen); 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian

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    The United States was built on a rural agricultural economy up to the 19th century‚ which were made up of farmers‚ artisans and merchants. But overnight that changed from a nation of agriculture to the world’s leading nation of industrial power. Many contributions played a role in the rapid growth of the industries‚ technology‚ innovations and large corporations to name a few. But with the rapid growth and power came many problems that affected the nature of work‚ skilled workers and their families

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    During the 1865-1900 time period‚ Industrialization had many greatleaders.” These leaders achieved the great challenge of booming the growth of industries and the economy of the United States and also fueled the United States to become the leading industrial power in the world. As historians have reviewed the achievements of these leaders‚ people have been questioning how honest the fortunes of these leaders were. They questioned the tactics of Rockefeller‚ Morgan‚ and Carnegie. The main question that

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    wills‚ estates‚ and trusts—affect business? The extent goes far beyond what we could learn within one day. Wills can be intense with particular information on how‚ who‚ what‚ when‚ and where’s. The wills are created to protect a particular person that may own real-estate. If there is a business deal between two people and one of them has a deceased parent and in the parent will they arenot to ever sale the property they can’t. The will gives no room for the business to grow or move outside of the hands

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    Canlas‚Karen Ann 6.) The discovery or creation of entrepreneurial opportunities in relation to the conditions of the industrial sector. I. INTRODUCTION No extensive empirical study on the sources of entrepreneurial opportunities included the individual‚ the environment and the individual’s start-up activities in a post-socialist periphery. However‚ such layered approaches have been encouraged in theoretical studies of entrepreneurship. Bouchikhi (1993) claims that each approach taken separately

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    One of America’s greatest feat was the continental railroad system developed/finished in the late nineteenth century. During this time it was very crucial for America to link states or territories as much as they could. This would speed the process up of traveling across the country in an exponential rate. “By the end of the construction of the continental railroad there was approximately two-hundred and fifteen thousand total miles made up of tracks in the US.” (S1) This made it paramount to

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    The prevalence and description of death and deathbed scenes and its importance as a plot device is omnipresent to nineteenth-century literature. Death was everywhere and mortality rates were high‚ especially in children‚ not all parents expected their children to survive their early years (Da Sousa Correa‚ p.10). Additionally‚ maternal death rates were high with women dying‚ often leaving the baby‚ and other children in the family with a widowed husband. Thus‚ authors often used the death of a child

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    In 1914 Europe found itself erupting into the first World War. Although nobody really had a reason for fighting‚ everyone was excited and proud to fight and win for their country. Europe consisted of mostly aggressive‚ imperialistic countries who all had the same idea of a war that would only last a couple months‚ but this is a war that wound up lasting a total of four years. Because this was a European War‚ America did not intervene until three years into the war. Although the fighting was taking

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    There are various reasons that led to economic growth in the beginning of the nineteenth century. These reasons are divided into six contributing factors: Capital‚ Cotton Textile Production‚ Manufacturing‚ Transportation‚ Population and Urbanization‚ and Westward Expansion. Each factor had an unprecedented contribution to America’s economy and helped pave the future of the country’s economic success. Following the end of the War of 1812 against the British‚ trade resumed between the latter and

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    task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." No one can deny that the act being a leader is an enormous job and that the best and worst leaders are remembered throughout history. What no one has determined thus far is if leaders are born or made. True leaders might have natural abilities that lend themselves to taking charge over people‚ but some leaders are born out of necessity; they see a situation and take control over it. The Great Trait website

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