|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 551 - 560 of 8980 matching essays
- 551: William Henry Gates III
- William Henry Gates III Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporatio William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June 1996, and employs more than 20,000 people in 48 countries. Background on Bill Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and ... attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's executive vice president for sales and support ... microcomputer -- the MITS Altair. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success ...
- 552: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... left his family, he tried to make a life in Boston, where he found his relatives poor, but giving. Reunited with his brother, William, Poe found him dying at the haunting age of 24. His writing became more insistent, as he found himself rejected by several newspapers. He eventually married his cousin, Virginia, who became a symbol to him as the ideal woman. In 1837, he moved to New York, where he engaged in literary wars with his contemporaries. Highly opinionated, Poe was not timid about criticizing the great poets and writers of his time. Poe continued to pursue his writing, and in 1947, Virginia died of tuberculosis, which left him understandably broken. However, upon her death, Poe still used her as his muse, finding the inspiration to write of death and love and reunion. He ... as 'the jingle man' and Lowell's 'three-fifths genius and two fifths sheer fudge' to Yeat's declaration, 'always and for all lands a great lyric poet'" (522). The criticism of his poetry and writing was a direct criticism on his theories, as he implemented his theories in all of his writing. As Charles E. May notes, "Poe's demand that inner coherence rather than external correspondence be the ...
- 553: Creative Writing: Down and Out
- Creative Writing: Down and Out "What you say we go down shore and see what the storm brung in?" says Richard. "Ya, bet we get ourselves some fresh lobster out some ole' trap we find washed up ... Day 20 Coordinates N\A I feel that we are somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. The storm has ended, and we have found an island. There is lots of food and clean water. I keep writing and have since thrown copies of several entries in the water, hoping that someone finds them and rescues us. No one was hurt and no one is hungry. The weather is nice and everyone is ...
- 554: Personal Commentary on the Drug Problem
- Personal Commentary on the Drug Problem The need to solve the drug problem has been a reoccurring theme of political and social commentary in the United States for most of the past decade. The increase in ... people start to experiment with drugs out of curiosity, for the thrill, as an expression of rebellion, or because their friends do it. On the other hand, others use drugs to escape depression, or other personal problems. But regardless of why drug use began, large numbers of people continue the practice because they become dependent on a drug. A document from the Department of Health and Human Services says the use ...
- 555: Creative Writing: John Griffith Biography
- Creative Writing: John Griffith Biography Let me put this heavy load down and take some of these bulky clothes off and I'll tell you about how I became a short story and novel writer. My name ... of myself. I returned to California and to school. My reading continued. Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson became my liteary gods and Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx made me a Socialist. I began writing while in college but could not find a market for my writings. In the mid-1897's I joined the Klondike gold rush. I packed 8,000 pounds of supplies and books to take with ...
- 556: The Writing Style Of Charles D
- The writing style of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens writes with imagery to create the atmosphere, the mood and to create impact for the writer s message. He uses imagery to create the atmosphere by using ... and light colors and using emotion to make the scene more dramatic. Dickens uses his stories to create a change of heart in his readers. Charles Dickens characters are a very important part of his writing he uses his characters moods and emotions to create imagery. Dickens uses time to develop his characters by painting the characters in the present time. In all of Dickens novels he has an extensive cast ...
- 557: Creative Writing: Inn From Hell
- Creative Writing: Inn From Hell It all started on a dark a stormy night just outside of the Paris city limits at about 11:00 P.M. when Doctor Bleed and his assistant checked into the old ...
- 558: Creative Writing: The Inferno
- Creative Writing: The Inferno It is the quintessence of monotony: a mountain chain of stucco that lies atop fallow lots the size of kitchen magnets. Welcome to suburbia. I effortlessly enter my pervious pastel palace, but the ...
- 559: The Bluest Eye: Quest for Personal Identity
- The Bluest Eye: Quest for Personal Identity Post World War I, many new opportunities were given to the growing and expanding group of African Americans living in the North. Almost 500,00 African Americans moved to the northern states between 1910 ...
- 560: Creative Writing: The Highwayman
- Creative Writing: The Highwayman Their journey to London was not a long one, but in the night, it was a treacherous one. A rolling fog covered the land, one couldn't see twenty feet ahead, but in ...
Search results 551 - 560 of 8980 matching essays
|
