Q1. Discuss and define the concept of ‘entrepreneurship’. The entrepreneur is our visionary‚ the creator in each of us. We’re born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see‚ hear‚ feel‚ and experience. It is developed‚ nurtured‚ and given space to flourish or is squelched‚ thwarted‚ without air or stimulation‚ and dies. Michael Gerber The term ’entrepreneur’ has been around since the seventeenth-century‚ it originates from France‚ where the phrase “entreprendre” was
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Historical Cost Concept What is historical cost? Historical cost is a term used instead of the term cost. Cost and historical cost usually mean the original cost at the time of a transaction. The term historical cost helps to distinguish an asset’s original cost from its replacement cost‚ current cost‚ or inflation-adjusted cost. For example‚ land purchased in 1992 at cost of $80‚000 and still owned by the buyer will be reported on the buyer’s balance sheet at its cost or historical cost of $80
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POWERFUL KNOWLEDGE IN THE CURRICULUM FOR EXCELLENCE Rick Instrell This is an expanded version of a paper delivered at the United Kingdom Literacy Association conference at the University of Chester on 15 July 2011. Abstract The Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is the current Scottish curricular initiative for 3-18 year-olds. Although most educationists agree with its progressive goals‚ its documents have been criticised as being vague‚ anti-intellectual and ignorant of subject disciplines
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Curriculum: At Front Street School they follow New York State Common Core Curriculum. At Front Street School two of the main Common Core Curriculum is based on Mathematics and ELA (English Language Arts). They specially use Engage NY. The Common Core Curriculum for ELA is designed to help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary based off of by listening and reading comprehension. These skills that Common Core force students to know are called decoding skills. These decoding skills
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MODULE 1 CURRICULUM: CONCEPTS‚NATURE AND PURPOSES Curriculum from Different Points of View 1. Traditional Points of View of Curriculum* “It is a body of subjects or subject matter prepared by the teachers for the students to learn”‚ and is synonymous to course of study and syllabus. *According to Robert Hutchins‚ curriculum is permanent study which emphasizes rules of grammar‚ reading‚ rhetoric and logic and mathematics needed for basic education which gives importance to the 3Rs
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| 2/8/2013 | Describe‚ examine‚ compare‚ contrast‚ explain‚ analyze‚ evaluate‚ and illustrate the trait definition of leadership versus the process of leadership. Leadership is a fascinating topic. As Stogdill states‚ “there are almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are people who have tried to define it” (Stogdill 1974‚ p.7). In the 1930’s the trait definition of leadership became the main approach. The great man theory was introduced due to the studies of the great
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Concept of Learning The concept of learning is having an understanding of how humans think. Having an understanding of how individuals think and learn‚ one will have a better understanding of the mental processes of the brain. This paper will review the concept of learning and distinguish between learning and performance. This paper will also compare and contrast the conceptual approaches to the study of learning. Defining the Concept of Learning The concept of learning can be defined as a change
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emrgnc Defining Sustainability – A Hundred Perspectives Sustainability as an emergent concept reveals deep concerns about fundamental values and our own continued existence. While each personʹs definition of sustainability is seen to be the most relevant‚ the question is a universal one and common to all. Whether our definition of sustainability is anthropocentric‚ biocentric‚ egocentric‚ ecocentric‚ econocentric‚ sociocentric‚ worldcentric or perhaps simply personally eccentric‚ they are all valid
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Concept Analysis Stephanie Hobbs NR 501: Theoretical Basis for Advanced Nursing Instructor: Dr. Patricia Fedorka September 30‚ 2012 Introduction According to McEwen & Wills (2011)‚ concept analysis is an approach to clarify and define terms so that writers and readers have a common language. The process of a concept analysis is to: 1. Select a concept 2. Determine the aims or purposes of analysis 3. Identify all the uses of the concept possible 4. Determine the
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What is Poetry? According to W.H.Hudson we all have a sense of what poetry constitutes. There are innumerable definitions of poetry given by poets and critics of poetry and out of which Hudson chooses some famous definitions. They are given below: * Johnson : “Metrical composition” ‚ it is “the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason” * Macaulay: “we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination‚ the
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