Valiant (Vuong) Nguyen
22 September 2014
Dr. Nina Markov
English 101
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Contemporary Business and Motivational Theories in Business
The Panic of 1837 in the background, depression of men in the foreground and businesses as running cogs in between; the colors which paint the dwindling society speaks for itself. Emerson in his idealism of The American Scholar enumerated the elementary foundations upon which this businesses shall be built. There is a notion in the world, contemporary or past, that business works the mechanism of politics, of solitude, domestic gratification and security; but his prevailing words has inspired me otherwise that Emerson in his effort to initiates these Scholars rushed through some of the essence of business, hence misleads the image of business. So how does his contention of motivation negatively affect viewing of business?
At the commencement of his address, Emerson in manifesting his notion of the Oneness of Man infers all entities in the society, including businesses, to become unified; he reads "Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all.
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