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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“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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Diplomacy and propaganda in the Kashmir War Abstract: The conflict between Hindu and Muslims over the Kashmir region is one of the bloodiest religious wars in history‚ exceeding in violence the Crusades or the “Thirty years war’’. As long as the Indian colony was under British rule‚ the tensions were kept under control‚ but during the decolonization movement ‚ the two religions who hatred and feared each other more than they feared the colonial masters‚ developed in the first phase separate
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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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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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28th‚ 1955‚ a young boy born in Seattle named Bill Gates would change their life forever. When young Gates was growing up‚ he was already put off to a great head start. His family was very involved with business‚ politics‚ and community services which out Gates in a perfect environment for success. When he began school‚ every single one of his teachers would describe him as their smartest student they’ve ever had. Stories have even said that Gates would end up teaching the class instead of the teacher
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The fate of the world depends on one boy‚ Matt. Raven’s Gate by Antony Horowitz is an adventurous book that will take you on a fascinating journey through the life of a young man named Mathew Freeman. Antony Horowitz tells about an ordinary boy who all of a sudden finds himself in a strange town called Lesser Malling. With a single wrong move‚ Matt could destroy the destiny of humanity. This story opens with Matt getting punished for a crime he was supposedly accused of committing‚ but did not.
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