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    The United States has a free enterprise system which allows businesses to conduct their affairs freely without interference from the government. Throughout the years many people have used this opportunity to create successful businesses, one of these people being Oprah Winfrey. The free enterprise system was necessary in order for Oprah Winfrey to create one of the most influential and powerful media empires in history. Born to an unwed teenage mother in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954 the odds were already stacked against her. Originally Oprah lived with her grandmother, however when she was six-years-old her grandmother fell ill and she was forced to live with her mother. While under her mothers care Winfrey endured years of physical and sexual abuse from multiple relatives. Unable to tell anyone, she began acting out which led her mother to send her to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee.…

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    over the last few decades. Because of the freedoms provided by the free enterprise system, Bill Gates was able to create one of the most successful and influential companies in the world. Three characteristics of free enterprise summarize its importance to the economy and its ability to allow businesses to become successful. In a free enterprise system, business owners are free to make their own economic choices. For example, if an individual has a grand idea for a business, they can start…

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    A Free Enterprise system is a system of economics that makes America what it is, a country where people can make their own economic decisions, such as selling or buying a product. Americans during the 1970s were having hundreds of advancements in technology, from emerging computer technology or advancements in medical technology. Bill Gates is an entrepreneur that succeeded because of the way our economic system was set up, the system was set up to ensure that not only could he create his own…

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    Freedom To Succeed Millions of people use amazon.com everyday without any concern for how it came to be. So for many who may not know already it was created by Jeff Bezos, an already young and successful millionaire working out of his garage. Would this have been possible in a restrictive economy? We must ask ourselves this when trying to determine if the free enterprise system made it necessary for Jeff Bezos to create this multi-billion dollar electronic commerce and cloud computing…

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    In a free enterprise system people have a choice to make or do what ever they want to become successful. I choose Tyler Perry for my argument and I think it was necessary for him to use the free enterprise system to become successful in this world. In Tyler Perry's story on how he became successful was very emotional but inspiring to me. He have wrote and produced many plays in the 1990's and nearly nobody came but a few people. Around the 2000's on up he started making progress and blessings…

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    societies decades beyond his time. Two of the major influential theories of Karl Marx involved logical argument within worth and the free market enterprise system with its influence upon socialism. The first issue that Karl Marx studied and deciphered involved the concept of logical argument. This theory was not fully established by Karl Marx,…

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    Free Enterprise System Free enterprise is a system where the government has very few limitations on business activities and ownership. In this system this government has minimal ownership of an enterprise. The U.S. economic system of free enterprise operates according to five main parts: the freedom to choose our businesses, the right to private property, the profit motive, competition, and consumer sovereignty. In free enterprise you have a right to own and do all of the main parts the the…

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    As the company branched out and expanded to different states so Jack changed the name in 1969 to Enterprise Leasing Company, in honor of the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier upon which he served in the Navy. The energy crises of the 1970s hindered Enterprise Leasing Company’s expansion but accelerated growth occurred in the 1980s even though Hertz and National entered the hometown market. According to Tucker and Salamie (2005), “a key ingredient to Enterprises success was the innovative…

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    Existentialism “A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.” –Internet meaning Existentialism is the idea that a man lives due to his free will and individuality. That every human define their own meaning in life. It also tackles what is human existence and that human defines their own meaning of life. This idea believes that there is no God, or any higher…

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