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A 5 page overview of the lives and accomplishments of these great individuals. This paper points out the characteristics that make them entrepreneurs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and tackle some of lifes most perplexing problems. In many respects, entrepreneurs are to be credited for life as we know it. Most of the great inventions and
many of the political developments that have made our world as it is today came through the work and determination of entrepreneurs. These men and women are scattered throughout
history and many, in fact, are still part of our world today. While Eli Whitney and Henry Ford are long gone, modern entrepreneurs like Oprah Winfrey and Sir Richard
Branson are very much alive. The entrepreneurial spirit extends back all the way to the beginning of mans reign on earth. The
first man that picked up a stick or a rock to use as a tool was an entrepreneur. The first woman that traded a hand-made clay pot for food
or some other basic necessity was an entrepreneur. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were hundreds of inventions that were put forth by entrepreneurs. These men and
women saw a need and they provided a solution to that need. Eli Whitney was one of the more notable entrepreneurs whose work
spanned the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Whitney is most remembered for his remarkable cotton gin, a device that is said to have resulted indirectly in the
fuel that was needed to keep Southern slavery alive an well at a time when the need for slaves may have died out. With the cotton mill, however, cotton
once again became a profitable crop and more slaves were needed to bring it from the fields to where it could be processed and sold at substantial profit.
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