On February 26th‚ Bill Gates gave a speech to governors‚ policy makers‚ and business leaders from across the nation to discuss the problems with education. During that speech‚ Bill Gates gave a keynote address where he called American public schools "obsolete." This statement made by one of the most powerful and influential men in the world could destroy the education systems of the United States let alone destroy the education systems of the world. Gates has spent almost a billion dollars influencing
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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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HOME READING ASSINGMENT The Road Ahead by Bill Gates I Answer the questions: EXERCISE 3 3a How was the work of these three people important to modern computer systems? Charles Babbage‚ Claude Shannon‚ John Von Neumann - Charles Babbage is the first man who had an idea to make a machine which can work with numbers‚ and which can do different jobs by following different orders. That was a hundred and fifty years ago. - After the hundred years‚ during which people worked on Babbage’s
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A singer I admire As we grow older‚ we find someone to looks up to. Some of us admire celebrities‚ family‚ and friends. I admire Andy Lau. A star of over 100 films and one of Asia’s most popular singers‚ Andy Lau was born on September 27‚ 1961 in Hong Kong. He grew up in a very poor area where there was not even running water. The young Andy had to make up to eight trips a day to collect water for his family. Despite financial problems‚ Andy’s parents encouraged him to do well in school‚ and upon
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Bill Gates: Before Microsoft From his first business venture through his multi-billion dollar deals‚ Bill Gates has always been a ferocious and keen businessman. Bill Gates first started tinkering with computers when his high school‚ Lakeside Prep‚ wanted to acquaint its students with computers. In 1968 the school held a fund raiser to buy computer time on a DEC PDP-10 computer that was owned by General Electric. Lakeside was able to raise enough money for what they thought would be ample
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Bear Grylls What non-fiction character can do all this? I ask you. Have you ever wanted something more? Ever wanted to make your life memorable or meaningful. You can. Why can’t you do it? How many people alive today havn’t been bored. Not your normal everyday bored. Not Short term bored. Bored with everything. Bored that everyday you have to get up and do the same thing. For hours. Hours piled like bricks on top of each other. These hours fueled by caffeine and fed by sleep. Lacking in excitment
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Heghine Grigoryan Writing #4‚ ESL 6 A 12.06.11 A Man I Admire A man whom I admire is Khachatur Abovyan. K. Abovyan is one of the greatest Armenian classic writers; also‚ educator-democrat‚ teacher‚ ethnographer‚ and the founder of the modern Armenian literature and new literary language. He lived in XIX century. When I was a teenager‚ I didn’t like to read books. However‚ when I once read one of Abovyan’s books‚ I almost fell in love with it. The reason was because his style of writing was unusual
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I take pride in saying I admire my mother the most in my family. My Mother. She is like The Sun in the Solar system and all the rest of the family are like planets revolving around the Sun. She is very affectionate‚ kind‚ caring‚ loving‚ compassionate‚ and ready to solve our problems. She has been acting like a buffer between‚ my father who was a strict disciplinarian and the rest of the family‚ grandparents and the grandchildren‚ elders in the family and newcomers to the family. She is up early
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Routinely remaining on top‚ Bill Gates’s garage startup Microsoft didn’t only come to dominate the PC market‚ but also packed an unmatched amount of software inside. Due to his forward thinking ingenuity‚ brilliant business strategies and proposals that paved the way for future tech‚ and his growing humanitarian efforts‚ Bill Gates should be included in Atlantic Monthly’s Top 100 Most Influential Americans List. Consistently running into trouble at a young age‚ Bills exceptional knowledge of computers
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Among the teachers I have encountered through my school life‚ Mrs. Smith is the one that I most admire. She was one of my English teachers in junior high. In contrast to other teacher’s apathy‚ her vitality always refreshed the atmosphere in our classroom. Moreover‚ her enthusiasm and thoughtfulness warms my heart to this day. Mrs. Smith’s charisma won everyone’s appreciation soon after she began teaching us. Since she was not our first English teacher‚ everyone had a skeptical eye on her
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