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David McCarthy
For this week’s assignment two I will be discussing two famous thinkers from our week four electronic reserve readings. In this paper I will be providing information about the contributions to society, their personal, social, political environments and how these factors contributed to their creativity. I will also address the problems or issues they their ideas sought to solve and description of the solutions and how their ideas were implemented. This paper will also include the creative process of each thinker and how the compared to each other. I will also attempt to critique of their ideas and what could they have done differently.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. provided would be his heroic civil rights movement to end segregation and provide equal rights for both whites and blacks. Dr. King had a very different approach ending segregation compared to many other black leaders, he believed in a nonviolent movement where blacks and whites could coexist peacefully. These peaceful movements did not always end peacefully for example in 1963 Dr. King joined a protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama where he encourage children and teens to join the peaceful march. The march resulted in cop spray the marchers with fire hoses and letting police dogs attack the crowd including teens and kids. Dr. Kings biggest accomplishment was his “I have a dream speech”. Dr. King’s speech helped create support and the following year Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed segregation in most public accommodations. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the biggest contribution to …show more content…
While this contribution may not be grand as the contribution of Dr. King but this contribution allowed for many technological advance in all aspects of people’s lives. Mr. Gates development of programs and software has been contributions to the revolution of computer and computer science. One of the biggest contribution was Mr. Gates providing broad economic opportunities to everyone across the world using computers. When these same computers were connected to the internet later it allowed for educational opportunities for all learners and ages across the world. These computer programs and internet connections allowed for people all across the world to speak and communicate in real time allowing the sharing of information across the globe.
Problems and Solutions
While no problem truly presented itself to Bill Gates he did see a way to providing affordable computers to everyone across the world by realizing that by selling the hardware and programs separate they could create a world where computers would in every household. Mr. Gates found that with his idea of separating the software and hardware it made it possible for people who had never had never known computers would. By separating the software and hardware he made it he could sell the computer cheaper than his rivals at Apple. This solution to getting