Self Made Man

history and geography that would close the cycle opened by the expansion of the West in the fifteenth century; a dramatic reterritorialization on a planetary scale of all those local, national 1 This text was written as a reply to a number of statements made in 2008 by the then “Extraordinary Minister for Strategic Affairs” of Brazil, the political scientist R. Mangabeira Unger. During Mangabeira's brief ministerial mandate, Marina Silva, the Minister for the Environment, was forced to leave the government

of superior power, while a great leader inspires more by force of character and principle than by fear and intimidation. The ideal leader is also someone who can be trusted. England’s King Charles II was notoriously described as one “whose word no man relies on.” For all his cleverness, he did not go down in history as a great leader; he never trusted anyone, and no one trusted him. The essence of trust and trustworthiness is the necessity of interdependence. If a leader loses viii the confidence

means of confirming or disconfirming what he had written to date about how emotions work. However, he did not draw on these areas for inspiration or self-criticism. Great and creative figures draw from their own experience the creative wellspring of new ideas and important concepts to share. Indeed, Fellini’s movie 8 1/2 deals with precisely this topic of self-experience as the source of creativity. For Professor Lazarus, early life was too distant in time to provide creative sources, but aging was upon

modèle américain sont la démocratie, le capitalisme libéral, la libre entreprise et la libre concurrence. Dès l’entre-deuxguerres, le pays a donné l’image d’une société d’abondance où le succès individuel était à la portée de chacun (concept de « self-made-man »). L’attractivité du « rêve américain » reste forte. Les principes politiques et économiques des EU, ainsi que l’ « american way of life » inspirent de nombreux pays du Sud. L’Amérique continue d’attirer : elle est, avec l’UE, le 1er pôle d’immigration

wife’s nerves while she accuses him of abusing her and their children (p. 6). From the very beginning, we are made aware of how dysfunctional this couple is, and Jane Austen gives us here a very bad image of a marriage in which, in the course of its 23 years of existence (p. 7) ‘respect, esteem and confidence, had vanished for ever’ (p. 183). It is only at the end however, that we are made to understand that this marriage was based solely on the good looks of Mrs. Bennet (p. 183). Mr. Bennet did

politique extérieur -garanti, le consumérisme , la libre possession de ses biens , la liberté d'expression ,( la presse «  le 4ème pouvoir » la liberté d'entreprendre de s'enrichir. -exalte l'idéal de réussite individuelle incarné par le self made man. -l'image d'un pays accueillant ( juste ceux qui incarne les valeurs américaine) Le libéralisme à monter sont efficacité d'un pts économique et contre le nazime ( intervention moindre de l'Etat) liberté des individu et de la conscience religieuse

boxe, suite à la demande du boxeur américain, Jack Dempsey, de créer un casque dans le but de le protéger. La suite en 1925 quand Golomb crée une ceinture élastique pour le short des boxeurs. L’entreprise se développe lors de l’apparition du self-made man et du rêve américain. Elle s’imprègne donc de ses valeurs, qui sont : Le dépassement de soi La soif de vaincre L’authenticité La gloire L’honneur Le slogan de l’entreprise devient, ainsi, << GREATNESS IS WITHIN >> qui signifie la force est en

Values are old and transgenerational: in Asian countries, old people are the most respected, while elderly in Occident are put apart most of time. Custom and manners: “Customs are common or established practices. Manners are behaviours that are regarded as appropriate in a particular society”. (Rugman et al., 2000, p.130). Concerning manners, for instance, French people must have both hands laying on the table when they have lunch, whereas American have only one hand on the table, and even if it

branches and the trodden weed;      Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought  As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!      When old age shall this generation waste,          Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe      Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,  "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all          Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. II. — TO PENSHURST.                 Thou art not, PENSHURST, built to envious show  Of touch, or marble ;  nor canst

to: navigation, search Corporate social responsibility ("CSR" for short, and also called corporate conscience, citizenship, social performance, or sustainable responsible business[1]) is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. CSR policy functions as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms. The goal of CSR is to embrace responsibility for the