The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in 2000 by its namesake‚ Bill Gates‚ and his wife Melinda. The couple created the foundation “to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world.”1 It is headquartered in Seattle‚ Washing and is co-chaired by Bill‚ Melinda and William Gates Sr. Since its founding the foundation has accrued an incredible $31.9 billion and has a net worth of almost $50 billion. With such spending power‚ the foundation has been able to make great
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Week 1: Analysis of Famous Leaders – Henry Ford Henry Ford is the founder of the Ford Motor Company‚ at the same time an inventor of the modern day assembly line method of production for his Model T cars. Nowadays‚ due to the strength of his leadership‚ Ford Motor Company has dealerships all over the world‚ and is one of the largest car manufacturers in the world. Nevertheless every leader has their strength and weakness. So for starters I would go on with strength as Ford lived
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Louis Foreman is someone who has always been an entrepreneur. He started when he held a fundraiser‚ at nine years old‚ and raised thousands of dollars for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Louis has started five different business ventures. The first one was started while he was a sophomore at the University of Illinois. Through Louis’s business ventures he became a source of advice for other new entrepreneurs. This led him to a new idea that he called Everyday Edisons. Everyday Edisons was a reality
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Alex Luu “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.‚ The Autobiography of Martin Luther King‚ Jr. A Baptist minister….. A civil-rights activist? He was many things. We all know him. Family? Textbooks? The internet? Whatever it was‚ we knew him. It wasn’t because of his job. It wasn’t because of his role. It wasn’t because of his color. It was how he was as a person. Out of many‚ he impacted the United States greatly. He brought us understanding
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King Louis XIV’s Life and Reign Maureen Bauer HUM 361 King Louis XIV’s Life Louis XIV was born September 5‚ 1638 to his parents Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He was their first child after twenty-two years of marriage. His brother‚ Philippe‚ was born in 1640. His parents did not have a happy marriage as they were chosen for each other and the King’s duties often kept them apart. The Beginning At the age of four King Louis XIII became ill with tuberculosis and rushed
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Michael Edelman HST 313 3/28/2005 Caricature Paper Jacques-Louis David: Gouvernement Anglois (The English Government) Introduction: As one can expect from the very nature of political and social revolutions‚ there were some very unhappy people during the French revolution. The question here is why the French citizens of this time so upset were and was their discontent so great that a revolution could be justified? Furthermore‚ who and what will be the ultimate vehicle to bring the necessary
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April 2011 Europe & the West: Modern Europe Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon King Henry VIII of England is most famous for his six wives and desperate attempt to have a son in order to provide an heir to the throne. He spent 38 years of his life jumping from one wife to the next until his death in 1547. Perhaps none of this would have happened if his first wife Catherine was able to successfully give birth to a healthy son in the first place. In my opinion‚ their relationship is the most
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Louis Lowry is and American writer‚ she was born on March 20th 1937 in Honolulu Hawaii‚ her parents are Katherine Gordon and Robert E. Hammersberg. Louis was the middle child of three children. Her family lived all over the world because her father was and army dentist. She attended Brown University for two years before she married Donald Grey Lowry at age 19‚ they had four children daughters Alix and Kristin and sons Grey and Benjamin. Because of Donald’s career in the military they moved a lot
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In Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ audiences discussed the explicit tension between reality and illusion developed by the theme of isolation. By situating at a time of transition in America where the modernism transcended the classical values‚ the isolation of Blanche due to her disparate semblances and adherence to delusions is represented as her loss of conformity. The arrival of modernist era leads to Blanche’s irreproachable deceiving of herself‚ illustrating illusions that
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students to use a primary source document to learn about the execution of French King Louis XVI in 1793. This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/louis.htm The primary source document is labeled (The Execution of Louis XVI‚ 1793) Students read the document and answer the questions on the worksheet. The
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