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- 3331: Microsoft The Company
- Microsoft: THE COMPANY The thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea--especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed a software company in 1975. From the beginning, Microsoft had a tremendous potential to become a very successful corporation. Beginning with a revenue of sixteen thousand dollars, and three employees, Microsoft ... Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. Gates' father was a lawyer, and his mother was a teacher (Cusumano and Selby 23). Much of Gates' programming started while he was a thirteen year old, from Lakeside School (tripod 1). He learned BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction) programming with, then sophomore, Paul Allen. By 1973, Gates was a student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Allen had enrolled at the University of ...
- 3332: Our World In Medicine
- ... save lives and to relieve suffering, which is why it is so respected. But the medical field is not open to anyone who wants to help. It takes many long years of college and medical school to get even a license to work with medicine.2 While some doctors are more important than others, almost all of them are on call twenty - four hour a day, seven days a week. Because ... influenced medical education for more than 600 years.9 The chief medical advances during the Middle Ages were the founding of many hospitals and the first university medical schools. In the 900's, a medical school was started in Salerno, Italy. It became the chief center of medical learning in Europe during the 1000's and 1100's. Other important medical schools developed after 1100. During the 1100's and 1200 ...
- 3333: Computers And Internet In Our Life
- ... have some basic computer knowledge and typing skills. (www.strana.ru) A lot of people nowadays like being lazy because computers can fulfill a lot of work. You can see computers everywhere: in shops, at school, at your bank. Computers do a lot to make our life easier: If you have the Internet, everything is hundred times easier for you. You can find whatever you want, you can buy whatever you ... and fun for kids. The I-net helps Pystogov 5 kids from one country meet kids from another. It is a great way to communicate and to learn foreign languages. Now we cannot also imagine school without computers. It proves that society and computers are undividable. What is also important is that computer games are the main way to spend their free time. They play video games instead of doing their ...
- 3334: To Kill A Mockingbird 4
- ... is the treatment of outcasts. Nearly all positive characters are outcasts in one way or another. The Finch family is too uncon-ventional. Scout hates being treated as a little lady. As she starts attending school, she can t stand the idea of wearing a dress, and her teacher considers it wrong that Scout al-ready can read and write. Scout and Jem have a good friend who pretends to have ... are outcasts too. We are in the thirties, and racial segregation is con-sidered perfectly normal in every aspect of daily life in the South. Blacks are underprivi-leged their children can t go to school, they attend their own churches and they are con-sidered guilty in advance for every crime that happens. This is the element of the novel that has attracted the greatest attention. It is also the ...
- 3335: AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- ... States, have instituted stringent rules for testing long-term foreign visitors or potential immigrants for AIDS, as well as testing returning foreign nationals. In the United States one frequent phenomenon is the effort to keep school-age children with AIDS isolated from their classmates, if not out of school altogether. Governmental and civil rights organizations have countered restrictive moves with a great deal of success. There is little doubt in my mind that the ultimate physical toll of the AIDS epidemic will be high ...
- 3336: The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur
- The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1971. Early in his life, he moved to Baltimore , MD, where he attended The Baltimore School for the Performing Arts. At this school, Tupac left a lasting impression on his teachers and was showing tremendous po tential. Unfortunately, Tupac was unable to continue his training. He moved to Oakland, California with the rest of his family. That's ...
- 3337: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... France had annexed the island. He had 7 brothers and sisters, and his father was a lawyer whose family stemmed from the Florentine nobility. His original nationality was Cursican-Italian. In 1779 Napoleon went to school at Brienne in France. There he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as ... did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him. Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army ...
- 3338: Health
- ... 30 or 40 years from now will not have childhood diseases. Most people who are now old have had them all. Better education is also a reason for prolonged and healthier lives. Where a grade school education was typical for the older generation, more than half of all Americans now 30 or 40 years old have completed at least high school, and studies show that people with more education live longer. They get better jobs, suffer less economical stress, and tend to be more engaged with life and more receptive to new ideas. Finally, the fitness ...
- 3339: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... brother. When Lyndon was five, the family moved to Johnson City. To help earn money he shined shoes in the town s only barber shop, and herded goats for the local ranchers. He finished high school in 1924 and with a group of friends he worked his way to California. He earned money doing odd jobs, but he barely made enough to feed himself. After awhile he became severely homesick and ... if he wanted to have a better life. Johnson went to college at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Johnson got his degree in 1930. Then he taught public speaking and debate at a Houston high school for two years. Politics and Family Johnson entered politics at the age of 24, when he became secretary for Richard Kleberg. In 1934 Johnson met Claudia Alta Taylor, daughter of a wealthy rancher. He knew ...
- 3340: Dyslexia
- ... special education services, 80-85% have their basic deficits in language and reading. Every year, 120,000 additional students are found to have learning disabilities, a diagnosis now shared by 2.4 million U.S. school children. Many children are never properly diagnosed or treated, or fall through the cracks because they are not deemed eligible for services. Dyslexia occurs among all groups, regardless of age, race, or income. Well-known ... college. However, Ennis enrolled in a short program that quickly prepared him to deal with his dyslexia and to fully master reading. Soon after he made the dean's list. He then headed for graduate school in New York City to become a teacher of children with learning disabilities. Ennis was also a good singer and actor and shortly before he was killed, he promised a photo shoot with Fila. Many ...
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