I must admit‚ when I started reading the first chapter of the ebook To Infinity and Beyond: Journeys of the Mind and Spirit‚ by Dr. Kent A. Bessey‚ I immediately thought of the Pixar movie‚ Toy Story. This is the catch phrase of Buzz Lightyear‚ a main character from the movie. Being a line repeatedly quoted‚ I’m sure most haven’t tried to understand its true meaning. While I have often pondered the idea of infinity‚ I have never given the thought to infinity being mathematically computed. I have
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Bill Gates Leadership Who is He? Bill Gates is consistently the richest man in the world; and the co-founder of Microsoft‚ the creator of the commonly used Windows. He is best known for being the entrepreneur that revolutionized the computer industry. Recently he has been active in philanthropic work‚ having set up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and giving over US$28 billion to their causes. A Quick History Gates began his interest in computers at a very young age. At eighth grade
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Bill Gates William Henry Gates the Third or also known as Bill Gates is the co-founder of the huge Microsoft Corporation. This billionaire was born in Seattle on the 28th of October 1955 and grew up there with his two sisters‚ Kristi and Libby. His father‚ William Henry Gates Senior was a prominent Seattle lawyer‚ and his mother‚ Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher at the University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. His great-grandfather was a state legislator
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Bill Gates has been a CEO of Microsoft in the past and is currently a CEO of Cascade Investment. “Bill Gates founded the world’s largest software business‚ Microsoft‚ and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world” (“Bill Gates Biography” par.1). He started without having anything and took a huge risk of starting the new business by himself. Bill Gates has worked very hard his entire life generating the Microsoft company
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Profile of Bill Gates Profiles of Global Leaders July 14‚ 2010 Abstract This paper will outline a profile of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. I will provide background information about his upbringing‚ his early exposure to computers‚ and his founding of Microsoft. I will then detail his unique leadership skills which have allowed him to take his company from a small upstart to a global icon. Childhood William (Bill) Henry Gates III was born in 1955 in Seattle‚ Washington to a middle class
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The Babylon Ishtar Gate There are many wonders of the ancient world that have been found by archeologists. Of these treasures found‚ one of the greatest and most beautiful has been the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. Babylon was the capital of a city in Mesopotamia‚ in the current day Iraq.(Hirst‚Archeology.about.com) Babylon was damaged by weather‚ age and wars (the Iraq and USA war) but still archeologists managed to find the gate. (Hirst‚Archeology.about.com) The Ishtar gate was built in the reign
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“Heaven’s Gate” and “Unification Church” The Heaven’s Gate cult followed a syncretistic religion‚ combining elements of Christianity with rare beliefs about the nature of UFOs. They believed that everything on Earth was about to be destroyed‚ after which the planet would be refurbished or recycled. The only chance for survival was to leave. Heaven ’s Gate members believed that Hale-Bopp‚ a rare bright comet‚ was the sign that they were supposed to shed their earthly bodies or containers and
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Q3. What was IBM’s horizontal scope in 2005? Using the four tests for horizontal scope‚ comment thereon in terms of any divestments you would recommend. Explain your strategic rationale. Answer- The horizontal scope of a company guides it in terms of which industry it should compete in. IBM’s horizontal scope in 2005 ranged from Computer technologies (as the core competency) to Business consulting‚ research and development. Acquisition and alliances with PWC‚Nextel‚ Mayo and Boeing were another highlighting
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Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world. For many years‚ he was the richest. Bill Gates would have still been the richest man on earth if he had not been as philanthropic as he has been in the last two decades. He has even got Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to pledge half their fortunes for charity. Bill Gates is a legend in his own right. Very few people have shaped up the latter half of the 20th century as he had done. Not everyone can aspire to be a Bill Gates and not many can
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Statue of Liberty as a symbol of the United States as land of promise for refugees from other nations (Schultz). In the quote “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed‚ sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch” (Lazarus ). Coincedently‚ Lazarus contrasts one of the ancient statue to the Statue of Liberty. The Colossus of Rhodes was a greek statue that was built in the roman era to commemorate… In contrast‚ the Statue
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