William Henry Gates the third was born on October 28th‚ 1955‚ Seattle Washington. His parents were William H. Gates‚ Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. Gates is an investor‚ computer programmer‚ and inventor. Gates dropped out of college and co-founded a company in 1976‚ called Microsoft with his good friend Paul Allen. This company later became the largest PC software company on earth. Gates had many positions during his career at Microsoft. He was CEO‚ chairman‚ and chief software architect. Microsoft
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Famous Thinkers Paper Stuart Mackey PHL 458 November 5‚ 2012 Lia Leon Margolin Famous Thinkers Paper In today’s society‚ kids are faced with many distractions‚ such as partying and having fun‚ which can prevent them from learning about history’s great thinkers. Great thinkers have been around for thousands of years. They range from Confucius (551-471 BC) and Plato (428 to c. 348 BC) to more modern great thinkers of Bill Gates (1955-present) and Richard Rorty (1931-2007). According to "Do
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Famous Thinkers The two famous thinkers in the week four Electronic Reserve Readings are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates. Each had separate aspirations and both men contributed a significant amount of growth in the Twentieth Century. Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have gone “down in history as individuals who changed the way the world worked personally‚ socially‚ and politically”. “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential civil rights activists and speaker
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The file PHL 458 Week 4 Individual Famous Thinkers Paper has solutions of the following task: Select and read the articles about two famous thinkers in the Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings. Find additional articles in the University Library or on the Internet. Write a 1‚050- to 1‚400-word paper. Include the following: ·Information about the thinkers’ contributions to society ·Each thinkers’ personal/ social/ political environments and how you think these factors
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Bill Gates: One of America’s Greatest. Bill Gates was one of the most creative and smartest people in the world. His vision of the future and ideas about changing the technology and making the world better changed the world. Bill Gates achieved the American Dream because his ideas about software changed the world‚ he worked hard to make his ideas become reality despite that he was already wealthy‚ and he founded Microsoft which is one of the biggest tech companies in our world today. William Henry
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Running head: BILL GATES: A LEADER IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY Bill Gates: A Leader in Innovative Technology Richardo Coccia Baker College MGT 451R: Management Styles and Strategies Tim Martin July 8‚ 2008 Abstract The Microsoft Corporation has been a giant in the software industry for over three decades. The company’s founders‚ Bill Gates and Paul Allen‚ put together an operating system for the computer world that ultimately captured the attention of every one on earth. However‚ it was
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Twentieth Century Thinkers PHL/458 Twentieth Century Thinkers The Twentieth Century‚ the year 1901‚ proved to be a time of change‚ brilliance‚ dedication‚ and new-found technology (2011). From quill pens to ink pens‚ horse-drawn carriages to gas powered engines‚ slavery and segregation of Blacks and Whites to the Civil Rights movement‚ and from handwriting on tablets to storing important information in a computer;
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Comparisons of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs I think the decisions of both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were unethical and wrong. To start with‚ they were both dropouts of college. Bill Gates was a drop out of Harvard University and Steve Jobs dropped out of Berkley University. Steve Jobs was adopted where as Bill Gates had his original family. Steve Jobs was a very odd man‚ to say the least. He was a hippie in the early days of his life. He did drugs such as acid. Bill Gates was a very plain boring
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who is accomplished‚ of good character‚ and a patron for the arts—an overall outstanding individual. Bill Gates is one of the few‚ his charitable acts bring out his good character‚ his intelligence exceeds the extraordinary‚ and his passion for art designate Gates as the modern day Renaissance person. Mr. Gates puts billions of his fortune toward enriching the lives of others. This aspect of Gates demonstrates his good character‚ a quality of a Renaissance person. “Let the man we are seeking be.
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you will learn how Mrs. Madame C.J Walker and Mr. Bill Gates impacted America. “The Article Madam C.J. Walker Biography.” In Ms. Walker early life‚ she was born Sarah Breedlove on 23rd of December 1867‚ on a cotton plantation near Delta‚ Louisiana. Her family members were slaves‚ who lived for many years in a plantation in the state of Louisiana.
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