Person of the Decade
Graded Assignment
Person of the Decade
By the early 1990s, Soviet domination in Eastern Europe had ended. A number of individuals played a part in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Understanding the role that each played is an important part of understanding the process that changed European politics and geography.
(50 points)
1. Using the information from the reading and from your online research, decide who you think should be named “Person of the Decade.” Then write a letter to the Time magazine nominating committee explaining why they should select your choice for “Person of the Decade.”
This assignment is worth 50 points, so it will be important to:
Provide background on the person.
Give details about the person’s work.
Explain the person’s impact on others and describe how the person changed the course of culture and politics.
You may complete and submit this assignment in this lesson or on the next Your Choice day.
Even though Bill Gates did not have an impact on Eastern Europe he had a huge impact on the united states. I think he was the most or one of the most influential men of the 1990s.
“Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company. Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-counting systems to local governments. In 1975 Gates, then a sophomore at Harvard University, joined his hometown friend Paul G. Allen to develop software for the first microcomputers. They began by adapting BASIC, a popular programming language used on large computers, for use on microcomputers. With the success of this project, Gates left Harvard during his junior year and, with Allen, formed
Person of the Decade
By the early 1990s, Soviet domination in Eastern Europe had ended. A number of individuals played a part in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Understanding the role that each played is an important part of understanding the process that changed European politics and geography.
(50 points)
1. Using the information from the reading and from your online research, decide who you think should be named “Person of the Decade.” Then write a letter to the Time magazine nominating committee explaining why they should select your choice for “Person of the Decade.”
This assignment is worth 50 points, so it will be important to:
Provide background on the person.
Give details about the person’s work.
Explain the person’s impact on others and describe how the person changed the course of culture and politics.
You may complete and submit this assignment in this lesson or on the next Your Choice day.
Even though Bill Gates did not have an impact on Eastern Europe he had a huge impact on the united states. I think he was the most or one of the most influential men of the 1990s.
“Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company. Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-counting systems to local governments. In 1975 Gates, then a sophomore at Harvard University, joined his hometown friend Paul G. Allen to develop software for the first microcomputers. They began by adapting BASIC, a popular programming language used on large computers, for use on microcomputers. With the success of this project, Gates left Harvard during his junior year and, with Allen, formed