In 1980‚ Tim Berners-Lee saw the potential for a communication phenomenon. What began as a tool to communicate‚ facilitate‚ and update information among researches within a single organization has now become the quintessential means of communication throughout the world. Tim Berners-Lee has garnered many achievements in his career due to his invention of the World Wide Web. Some of these notable achievements include: The founding of the World Wide Web Consortium‚ to allow the utilization of the World
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LEE KUAN YEW 1. Historical Background of the Leader Lee Kuan Yew was born a British subject in at Kampong Java Road Singapore on September 16‚ 1923. He was born to Lee Chin Koon‚ an English-educated and a British subject‚ and Chua Jim Neo. He had three brothers and a sister namely‚ Dennis Lee‚ who was able to put up a law firm with Lee Kuan Yew called Lee & Lee‚ Freddy Lee‚ a stockbroker‚ Lee Suan Yew‚ who read medicine at the University of Cambridge‚ and Monica Lee. Lee Kuan Yew got married
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Lee De Forest Lee De Forest was born Aug. 26‚ 1873‚ Council Bluffs‚ Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father ’s efforts to educate blacks‚ Lee and his brother and sister made friends from among the black children of the town and spent a happy although sternly disciplined childhood
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Robert E. Lee was the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson commanded the Army of the Shenandoah. The military genius of these two men was far beyond that of any Union or Confederate officer in the east. History tells us that Robert E. Lee was one of the greatest commanding officers in history. History only tells us that Jackson was brave and stood like a stonewall at the First Battle of Manassas Junction‚ but was Jackson as good a commander as Lee? While
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Outline Thesis Statement: Because of extensive evidence‚ I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone on the day of November 22‚ 1963 in the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The additional gunman was strategically placed in the grassy knoll area‚ in order to shoot at Kennedy from a frontal view (Rubinstein 4). A. Opening Paragraph Since November 23‚ 1963‚ the day after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated‚ there have been speculations as to the happenings
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Tim Berners Lee Biography: _Tim berners Lee was born on 8th June 1955 in south east London‚ England. He’s the son of Conway burners Lee and Mary Lee woods. _ He attended Sheen Mount Primary School‚ and then went on to Emanuel School in London‚ from 1969 to 1973. He studied at The Queen’s College‚ Oxford‚ from 1973 to 1976‚ where he received a first-class degree in Physics. _He accepted a fellowship at CERN in Geneva in 1980 and while at Cern he proposes a project based on hypertext and
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Lee Harvey Oswald 1. Lee Harvey Oswald did not by any means have a childhood that would be considered of the norm. He did not grow up in a home surrounded by loved ones who were always home. He did not have an abundance of friends to play with after school‚ but instead would sit in his house alone waiting for his mother to get home. Growing up Oswald did not have a steady father figure‚ did not have a steady school‚ and was sent to a Youth house at the age of fourteen. Putting all these factors
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The Death of Annabel Lee and Virginia Clemm Poetry is a fine art; it can be interpreted in many different ways‚ it is a complex piece of literature that can carry much more meaning than just the words on the surface. Edgar Allan Poe‚ author of the piece “Annabel Lee”‚ writes about a young couple who are in love with each other. The speaker of the poem shares a passionate love towards his dear Annabel Lee‚ but once his lover was taken away from him due to sickness; his overabundance of
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Harper Lee is a prominently known author particularly for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ published in the mid-early 1960’s. Harper lee was born April 28‚ 1926‚ and grew up in Monroeville‚ Alabama where she was the youngest of four children in her family. Lee attended Monroe county High School where she gained a majority of her interest in writing. The Novel To Kill a Mockingbird was narrated by character Scout Finch who had very similar characteristics like Harper Lee in her
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show compassion and empathy with many of the decisions they make‚ and they usually have a strong set of morals; they stand up for what they believe in even in the face of adversity. Atticus Finch‚ from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ is one such person. Harper Lee helps readers follow the journey of Atticus as he attempts to end the ignorance with which the citizens of Maycomb grew with. In this small town where nothing happens and everything stays the same‚ a single event causes the citizens
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