recent discussions of the value of a Liberal Arts education‚ David Foster Wallace argues that the most important aspect of such is learning to have an awareness of one’s surroundings. In his address to a college graduating class‚ called “Kenyon Commencement Speech‚” he tells of his concerns that too much of our daily lives is focused on ourselves and too little on paying attention to things around us. We’re only concerned about our point of view when we should be open to more possibilities. An example
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Audience: The Brandenburg Gate Speech Ronald Reagan‚ the former president of the United States from 1981 to 1989‚ spoke in the Brandenburg Gate. Ronald Reagan gave his famous “Tear Down this Wall” speech in Berlin. Many people in Germany were ready for freedom and others wanted it as well. Many people felt there should be peace within the city. Ronald Reagan wanted to persuade the Soviets and Communists that change and openness was a great thing. Ronald Reagan’s speech was a sort of challenge to
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if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act”‚ once said William Henry Gates III. Gates is an innovator‚ genius‚ philanthropist‚ and entrepreneur; he has made a huge impact on our society. The ideas he put into his projects and the choices he made all led up to the creation of Microsoft‚ and the development of the personal computer. Gates has been considered one of the wealthiest men of all time‚ and without a doubt has changed the world with the modifications
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Out of many successful business entrepreneurs I found Bill Gates‚ the richest men in America quite fascinating and the endeavors he has taken to effect the social change is simply marvellous. I was very curious to know about the life history of Bill Gates. This was also one of the main reason to choose this text. Simply from his childhood he was attracted towards computer and later he became the world’s largest software business Microsoft owner and in the process he came to be one of the richest
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ENGL101 Final May 15‚ 2012 Invention Conan O’Brien gave his commencement speech at Dartmouth in 2011‚ congratulating the graduating class and imparting a few words of wisdom.During his speech‚ he appealed mostly to pathos and ethos‚ being as this was a commencement speech‚ there wasn’t very much need to appeal to logos using stats or facts. He used pathos to appeal to the graduating students by telling about his falling out with NBC and how he came back to fame with his talk show on TBS. He
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a foundation that supports other organizations who share its guiding belief that every life has equal value. Located in Seattle‚ Washington‚ the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have an asset trust endowment of 36.2 billion dollars as of September 30‚ 2012. It supports grantees in all 50 states and 100 countries internationally in areas of global development‚ global health‚ United States program‚ and a smaller charitable support initiative sector. Bill Gates‚ Melinda
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pave the way for the future. Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft‚ one of the largest software companies of our generation. While Gates is most notable for founding Microsoft‚ he has made quite the philanthropic impact on healthcare‚ education‚ and the technology industry to name a few. Nowadays‚ he works full time at his charitable foundation‚ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation‚ in order tackle local and global issues through collaboration and innovation. Bill Gates possesses the traits necessary
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Silicon Valley Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013 Bill Gates Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates the third on the 28th of October ‚1955 to his parents Mary Gates‚ who was a professor and businesswoman and William Gates II‚ who was a prominent lawyer of his time (Summers). Bill was enrolled in the prestigious Lakeside School of Seattle in 1967 because he showed signs of intelligence and ambition. This school was the first place Bill worked with computers. He and a few other students spent
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family Conversation with the topic "The Infamous Bill Gates". A great amount of information most likely was shared about Bill’s trial to Achievement during these dinner table talks. While fanaticizing about the material items that I would purchase with Bill’s fortune‚ and how happy they would make me‚ I realized I had no idea what happened for bill to get where he was. I started researching With the question "What is the history of Microsoft?" Bill Gates began using the word Microsoft in November of
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Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates: both incredibly rich‚ incredibly generous (or so it appears) men from two differing time periods.Both men were self-made and owed their wealth to much hard work‚ and both were distinguished figures during their times. Furthermore‚ both utilized their wealth to perpetuate meaningful social change rather than reforming society altogether. Despite the similarities they share‚ the two men originated from relatively different backgrounds and did their benefacting through
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