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- 2681: Bill Gates
- ... off. His father, William H. Gates II, is a prominent attorney. His mother, Mary, is the director of First Interstate Bank. Early on in life, Gates' parents placed him into Lakeside, an academically challenging private school. While at Lakeside, Gates met his close friend and future business partner Paul Allen. Together they entered the world of programming at Lakeside. It all started on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, where one of the brains behind Microsoft Corporation was born, William Henry Gates III. At thirteen he started going to Lakeside School. A year later, the Mothers' Club invested in a computer terminal for the students. Gates teamed up with three other students to form The Lakeside Programmers Group. Their first real business deal was a payroll ... being that the authors are computer experts. Stephen Manes has covered the computer industry for more than ten years as a columnist and contributing editor for PC Magazine and PC Computing. Paul Andrews is a high tech reporter for the Seattle Times. The information in this book is amazing from starting of industry to where its headed. And from reading this book, I feel that Bill Gates and Microsoft ...
- 2682: Pornography
- ... Gump, a highly acclaimed movie, had a sexual act and nudity involved. Also public television has been known to show nudity and sex. Allusions are made to sex in every part of our life. Work, school, sports, and recreation are all forums through which unhealthy sexual views are expressed. One of the more predominant and obvious forums for the proliferation of unhealthy sexual desires is pornography. Pornography is displaying the human ... grip that pornography has on a lot of people in this world. As it is now, in an unscientific poll, if offered just $100,000 to pose for a pornographic magazine, almost fifty percent of high school students would seriously consider performing this immoral and unspeakable act. Pornography has many obvious as well as not-so-obvious consequences within society. Pornography has the power to ruin marriages, destroy trust, excite a ...
- 2683: Clown
- ... of clowning it sounds silly but clowning is a very serious job it starts with the way you look all the way down to the way you sound. With the fit clowns there was no school or colleges and it was also if you weren t funny the first time you never will be. But know it is a profession for a lot of peole and if you become good enough you can have a very large profit. Also with the clown college there is more than one kind of clown such as a rodeo clown. He will have to go to school for usually three years which will pay good because it is a high risk job.
- 2684: Comparative Analysis Between P
- ... inflation were necessary to spark investment and economic growth; marking privatization as the means to achieve this desired prosperity. Therefore, some countries directed their efforts towards privatization. Unfortunately, the Dominican Republic did not follow that school of thought. The government owned a sizeable amount of companies but it was more due to the dictatorship rule of Rafael L. Trujillo than economic policy. With a dictatorship government, the ruler or dictator controls ... formal program. In fact, some state owned businesses were forced to shut down due to financial struggles, with many others in serious debt. In addition to the president s support, two other factors encouraged this school of thought. One factor was the Stand-By Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) signed in August of 1991. This was a letter of intent for a new agreement sent by the IMF that ... This law was later revoked by a tax code passed in 1992. Privatization is still desired for the CDE. -Compania Dominicana de Aviacion (CDA): this is the national airline. It was at one time a high priority on the privatization plan because neither the airline had the necessary equipment to cover the routes nor the funds needed to pay its debts. Fortunately, the CDA signed an agreement in 1993 with ...
- 2685: George Washington Carver
- ... work came to hand in order to exist. He supported himself by varied occupations that included general household worker, hotel cook, laundryman, farm laborer, and homesteader. In his late 20s he managed to obtain a high school education in Minneapolis, Kansas, while working as a farmhand. After a university in Kansas refused to admit him because he was black, Carver enrolled at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, where he studied piano and art ... 1894 and a master of science degree in 1896. Carver left Iowa for Alabama in the fall of 1896 to direct the newly organized department of agriculture at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a school headed by the noted black American educator Booker T. Washington. At Tuskegee, Washington was trying to improve the lot of black Americans through education and the acquisition of useful skills rather than through political ...
- 2686: Mordecai Richler`s Solomon Gursky Was Here
- ... not get along well. L.B., a failed poet, is resentful of his son's literary talent. This leads to leads to L.B. treating his son with contempt. On one occasion, Moses, home from school at Balliol, tells LB that he submitted a short story, which LB said "showed promise"(p.129), to "the New Yorker. L.B. belittled Moses for his attempt which he suspected to fail and demanded ... of gambling, traveling, bootlegging, military service(WWI) and many women. Through his teenage gambling exploits, the first in a chain of hotels, which would lay the foundation for the Gursky empire, was acquired in a high stakes poker match, in which he risked the deed to his fathers store. A character in the novel once said that "without Solomon that bastard would have ended up like he started. Sweeping up in ... good piano player, an aviation buff and a good impressionist. He is always carrying a malacca cain and is associated with the raven. He shares all these characteristics and mannerisms with Solomon. Moses, while at school in England, meets Sir Hyman, who becomes a father figure to him. Sir Hyman was responsible for Moses looking towards the Franklin Expedition and the arctic for information about Ephraim and the Gursky beginnings ...
- 2687: Colonel Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovsky
- ... these various and complex inquiries one must start at the beginning. Oleg Penkovsky was born in a small town on the 23rd of April in 1919. By 1939 he had graduated from a Soviet military school and had been part of a group called Komosomol, meaning "young communists." He also went to war serving as a unit commander of an artillery unit. Penkovsky was decorated four times during his 1939-1940 ... not give up that much valuable information just for the sake of one man (Knightly 315). Further speculation brings another idea to light. The idea that Penkovsky was a mere pawn in a game of high stakes diplomacy where the loser was Penkovsky. There may have been high-ranking Soviet officials that did not agree with Krushchev and all his boasting. They may have felt that he was leading them towards nuclear war with the United States. These same individuals could have ...
- 2688: The Immigration Problem
- ... Gerston 9). Besides ethnic diversity, California has one of the most diverse economies in the world. Despite its problems, California prevails in agriculture, mining, manufacture, transportation, communication, electronics, construction, and defense. These industries contain a high percentage of immigrants. If California were an independent nation, with a 695.3 billion dollar economy, it would rank eighth in the world (Gerston 8). California's dense population is a direct result of immigration ... tend to be better students. One of the biggest concerns Americans have with immigrants is education. It is a common and incorrect stereotype to believe that immigrant children bring substandard skills and poor attitudes to school (Woo A1). People from all over the world have brought with them their culture and enthusiasm for education. Prevalent, it is, that many immigrant students, legal or not, have grades substantially higher than their American ... the Door to Mexicans." L.A. Times 31 Jan. 1995: B7. Wishard, Van Dusen. "The Wider Vision Seeks to Inspire the Best in People." Vital Speeches 6 (1994): 153. Woo, Elaine. "Immigrants do Well in School, Study Finds." L.A. Times 3 Apr. 1995: A1.
- 2689: Closure At The Wall An Analysi
- ... that?" (190) Despite Sam's concern for Emmett, she goes through life just as confused. Sam Hughes is an eighteen-year-old girl who lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with Emmett, her uncle. Sam has completed high school and is trying to decide what to do with the life that lay ahead of her. However, before she does this, she must discover who she is and what she longs to find. Since she ... Irene, wants Sam to go to the University of Kentucky, her almumator. While Sam prefers Murray State University because it has a better track team, "she hoped to commute", and it isn't the same school her mother went to (28-29). Irene is remarried and lives in Lexington with her husband, "Lorenzo Jones" and her daughter, Sam's half sister, Heather (56). Sam lives in the past, while her ...
- 2690: Cultural Synopsis: The Philipp
- ... the country. The Philippine education system is based on the North American model: primary, secondary and finally a higher education. The illiteracy rate is only 12% of the population over fifteen, the standard education is high compared with other South-East Asian countries. Filipinos have a passion for dance. Traditional dance derived from Malay, Spanaish, and Muslim influences. Some of the most beutiful dances are tinikling, bamboo dance, and pandanggo sa ... instuments such as bambnoo flutes and wooden drums. Phillipine folk songs have had a revival since Bayan Ko, meaning My Country, was sung by the popular social critic Freddie Aguilar. Filipino films are produced in high numbers, which deal mainly with typical movie story lines such as violence and the traditional love story. In January of 1981, the first film festival in the Philippines took place at the Philippine International Convention ... Spolarium, won a gold medel at the 1884 Madrid Exposition. In the mid-20th century Fernando Amorsolo. Vicente Dizon and Vicente Manansala were internationally recognized. All were also graduates of the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts. The Philippines has developed a unique mixed culture of foreign influences. Filipinos love to gamble. They exchange money frequently on basketball games and other sports. Improvisation is seen by the way ...
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