William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28‚ 1955)[4] is an American business magnate‚ investor‚ philanthropist‚ and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft‚ the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people[5] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009‚ excluding 2008‚ when he was ranked third.[6] During his career at Microsoft‚ Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect‚ and remains
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Bill Gates: An Important Visionary For Better or Worse by Blake Noonan Having an imagination is a virtue. Imagining an entirely new way to communicate and interact with others through a machine is amazing in itself. Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world‚ but some consider him as the most ingenious too. Others see him as a monopolizing‚ money hungry nerd. William Gates III was born in Seattle‚ Washington in 1955. When he was thirteen‚ he wrote his first software program
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HOME READING ASSINGMENT The Road Ahead by Bill Gates I Answer the questions: EXERCISE 3 3a How was the work of these three people important to modern computer systems? Charles Babbage‚ Claude Shannon‚ John Von Neumann - Charles Babbage is the first man who had an idea to make a machine which can work with numbers‚ and which can do different jobs by following different orders. That was a hundred and fifty years ago. - After the hundred years‚ during which people worked on Babbage’s
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officer of the Microsoft Corporation‚ and a multibillionaire: Bill Gates. CAREER Gates‚ William Henry‚ III (1955- ) was born in Seattle‚ Washington. Gates grew up in a very competitive family. His father‚ William H. Gates II‚ was an attorney. His mother‚ Mary‚ was a University of Washington regent and director of First Interstate Bank. His parents placed him in Lakeside‚ an academic
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Alexa McCombs WR 121 Ms. Andre Rhetorical Analyses of the Kenyon Commencement Speech David Foster Wallace was a novelist and essayist. He delivered a commencement speech to liberal arts graduates at the Kenyon College in May of 2005. In the speech Wallace implores listeners to hear his words from a non-biased perspective for what they are; his words are not a reprimand to the selfish‚ but an offer to those seeking knowledge to broaden their perspective. Wallace warns against closed mindedness
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by Steve Jobs in one of his speeches‚ which signified the level of confidence and faith he had in his work. The only way to be satisfied is to do great work‚ which can be attained only by loving your own work. This was the main idea of his commencement speech in Stanford University. He was a born hero as even after going through serious difficulties in his career life‚ he still had that faith and confidence in himself‚ which made him the CEO of a two billion dollar company. He dropped out from college
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school whenever they feel like they’re ready for the real world. These simple steps will help any high school student‚ become the valedictorian of their class‚ earn scholarships worth millions of dollars and be on their way to becoming the next Bill Gates. An amazing strategy used by successful students all around the world is cheating. Only the outstanding students take part in academic dishonesty‚ whether it is to finish an assignment or trying to pass a test. The best reliable sources every successful
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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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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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Messimore Luis Marin English 1013-036 2 September 2014 Kenyon Commencement Speech David Foster Wallace gave a speech called Kenyon Commencement Speech to the Kenyon College in 2005. He delivered the message that a change in thinking can save citizens from the daily grind of their eight to five jobs. Wallace gave examples of this point in his speech starting with a fish in water‚ a person in a crowd‚ and how not to think. Wallace started his speech with a short story about an older fish asking a couple
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