Exegesis Of Proverbs 31 - The Qualities Of Good Entrepreneurs

These women, although they lived in a third world country, have the skill and gumption to go into business for themselves, and “be their own boss”. In the United States, more women have the ability

The Wife of Bath uses bible verses in “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.” Further, she employs the verses as an outline of her life to find reason in God to justify her actions. Nevertheless, the purpose of the verses differs within each stanza of the poem. The Wife of Bath is a sexually promiscuous, lustful, and manipulative woman. She marries men one after the other as they get older and die. In order to combat and overthrow the speculation and criticism being thrust upon her by societal norms because of her marriages, the wife turns to specific bible passages to find reason in life and support for her actions (Article Myriad.com). When the wife is having sex quite frequently and with different men she is said to be fruitful and multiplying. According to the wife, this is what she is told to do in the bible passage, which she has misinterpreted. Ironically, The Wife of Bath is using a predominantly male dominated book to back up and support her reasons for women being equal to men (Article Myriad.com). Not only has she referred to the benefits of adultery through the bible, she has also attempted to undermine the power of men in the very same way she has attempted to prove that the genders are equal. From this, it can be interpreted that although the wife claims to be providing evidence for women being equal to men, she is actually saying that women are better than men. She misinterprets the readings of the bible and male written passages on purpose in order to suit her needs.

Dating back throughout history woman were often considered to be too soft or docile to work. In the early 1800’s, as well as the 1950’s, it was thought that woman should not only be pure in heart, mind and body, but that they should be submissive to their husbands and not work outside the home, this was known as the Cult of Domesticity (Keister & Southgate, Inequality: a contemporary approach to race, class and gender, 2012, p. 228).

Entrepreneurs are an essential part of stimulating the economy while creating new businesses as a key driver in any economy. With entrepreneurship comes struggle and a host of barriers that interfere with achieving a successful career path. Two prominent female entrepreneurs encountered similar struggles throughout their careers that dealt with family issues, public and media criticism as well as negative encounters with the law. With a variety of business approaches and personalities, Martha Stewart, a highly successful businesswoman, turned everyday household activities into a multi-million dollar empire and Martha Billes, also a richly successful businesswoman, fought hard to take ownership of Canadian Tire at the age of 61. Both entrepreneurs faced the adversities of being women growing up in the 1940’s, where society held negative views against them because they were expected to be domestic stay at home mothers and wives rather than businesswomen, and also based on the many similar flaws in their career paths such as their numerous times in court, ugly divorces and being targeted for their stern personalities. However their passion, stern attitudes, and alternate mindsets inspired and drove them to do whatever it took to succeed, regardless of what critics said. It was because of their lack of family support, public disapproval, and experiences with the court of law that developed their similar stern and ambitious personalities that allowed them to become great

First, during the class, we talked about the Proverbs 31 which is about the wife of noble character. According to the Proverbs 31:15 and 20, it says “She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls” and “She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.” Both verses are talking about a woman who serves her family, servant, poor, and needy. In addition, Proverbs 31:18 says that

Lately, questions have arisen about the true meaning of work. Work has been a significance to humans since the time around the middle 1600’s. Although work began at this time, it evolved into something more powerful and advanced a couple more centuries later. During the late 18th century, the work force began to boom during the industrial period. The world was heavily influenced by the work field and managed to establish one’s sense of character. If one worked their determination and values were clearly sought out by others. The importance of work begins with women becoming involved, wanting to make a difference in society and show the men they could do it too. Consequently, leaving the world to wonder if work is even a necessity to the civilian

Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” Belleville claims that the latter part of this verse refers to a rift in intimacy between man and woman (34), and not consequence that suggests hierarchy. Although she acknowledges, like many do, that this text is descriptive and not prescriptive, she still tries extremely hard to remove any hint of hierarchy from the text, which appears to be a stretch. Although I agree with her that people should not use this text as justification for hierarchy (35), I think she is stretching to claim that we do not find hierarchy taking place due to the

First, women in the professional world face harsh criticisms that are both portrayed in the media and rooted in Biblical interpretations. A Commercial by Pantene points out the issue of labelling. A man is labelled “boss,” while a woman is labelled “bossy”; a man staying late at work is “dedicated,” while a woman staying late at work is “selfish” (Social Voice

The last quote that I chose is “Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions—and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.” The Entrepreneur as Hero can be related to the quote due to the fact that entrepreneurs start of with the draft of their ideas first before actually creating them. For example, like I had pointed out in another paragraph, Malcom McLean had created an idea of how to make shipment on ships more efficient and not to have any hard labor or accidents. The quote is related to video because the quote stated “...man’s mind is the root of all the goods produced…” as well as the wealth that existed on Earth. It shows that entrepreneurs;

Through other empirical studies, research showed how the typical working girl was approached with a multidimensional field of positive opportunity when it came to employment. The article suggests how due to the prosperity of the city and more specifically its city life created new jobs for people, specifically towards women. Through their work, women emphasized the importance of being able to work outside of the home. This new sense of work gave them the confidence that all women have the same set of skills that men

The church’s interpretation of the women is that the husband is the head of her and she should be subjected to him (The New American Bible, Ephesians 5: 22-24). In the wife of bath, her fifth husband was questioning his wife, because of all what was written of bad wives by men (Wife of Bath, pg 699). The Thousand and One Nights is centered on a good king who was deceived and hurt by his wife, which twisted his morality. He vowed to marry a woman each night and in the morning he would kill her. The king’s daughter, Shahrazad, decided to take a stand and marry the king. With her intelligence and storytelling, she was able not only to save her own life, but her kingdom as well (The Thousand and One Nights, pg 554). Shahrazad was a good wife even if it meant risking her life. Men has an impact on his wife. Yes, he is superior to her, but he needs to bring her to holiness and reciprocate her love. Husbands love your wife as much as you love your own bodies (The New American Bible, Ephesians 5:28). Make sure your wife lacks blemish and bring her to holiness and without blame

There has been extensive research conducted on the characteristics that successful entrepreneurs possess. These attributes vary widely across literature, however there are common key traits that are required to achieve any form of success. Frederick et al (2013) suggest entrepreneurs are risk takers, optimistic, have sound judgement and an ability to manage. While a review of literature relating to the psychology of an entrepreneur reveals a large variety of characteristics in a successful entrepreneur, these can be consolidated to a a few into only a few traits that are essential for a successful entrepreneur. Whilst taking into

1. Not an iota of the hard work of this hardworking woman is exactly described as today’s woman's work and definitely not in the patriarchal world of ancient times. This Proverbs 31 wife is not really slaving herself in the kitchen by scrubbing dishes, pots and pans while complaining offensively. While she obviously takes care of her husband as described in verses 11-12 and household as described in verses 15, 21, and 27and excels at domestic activities as described in verses 13, 15, 19, and 22. She is relatively active outside the home as well.

Another trait possessed by successful women entrepreneurs is persistence. Starting a business is one thing; but sticking to the entrepreneurial process is another. Nothing good comes easy; you must give a good fight and persist on what you want; if you are to really achieve success in the business world. Without persistence, I don’t think you can become a successful business woman.

In this paper the history of women in the workforce will be outlined, as well as the challenges they face. The changing attitudes towards women taking over family businesses will be looked at briefly, how women lead in comparison to how men lead, and a comparison of their leadership style will also be discussed.