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- 6621: Bill Gates
- ... in distribution as the company has grown, so much that the Federal government is suggesting that Microsoft has violated Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. Bill Gates' first interest in computers began at Lakeside, a private school in Seattle that Gates attended. There he wrote his "first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe"(Gates 1). It was at Lakeside that Gates met Paul ...
- 6622: Billy Sunday
- ... it on his own. He worked for a Civil War veteran and his wife. Colonel and Mrs. John Scott took him in, loved him, worked him hard, and sent him to two years of high school. No one knows whether or not he graduated, but he was much better educated than the typical American was. In 1880, two months before his eighteenth birthday, Billy Sunday decided to give up the rural ...
- 6623: Reform Movements Of The Nineteenth Century
- ... were granted the right to take control over their property in 1839 and after eleven more states follow suit. Women also began to work out of the home during this period. With the expansion of school and the education reform, women first began in the teaching profession. Once women were allowed to participate in this profession, many questioned “why not lawyers or doctors” (Tindall and Shi 553). Margaret Fuller, a well ...
- 6624: Bonnie And Clyde
- ... and reams of sheet music, as well as an arsenal of firearms. Clyde loved and named his guns, and regarded them as tokens of his power. At the age of sixteen, Clyde dropped out of school to work at Proctor and Gamble. Clyde’s crime streak started with helping his brother steal a small flock of turkeys and transporting them to Dallas to sell for Christmas money. Dallas officers saw the ...
- 6625: Sibling Relationships
- ... Ben." To her amazement, Adam looked puzzled for a minute and then said, "Yeah, I am mad at him." Then Adam went to another room to play by himself. (Afters, Gender and conflict in after school care 1993) Cultures Different Cultures have a big impact on how well siblings get along, in some cultures it is expected for the older siblings to help care and tend to the younger ones. In ...
- 6626: Gay Marriages-Acceptable to God and America?
- ... and America? Growing up in San Francisco, my parents were working full-time across the bay in Oakland. Naturally, they decided that a babysitter was required to look after my younger brother and I after school. I remember Debbie as a funny, energetic, and warm lady in her mid- thirties. It wasn’t until a decade later that I realized that she was gay. Debbie would take us to different places ...
- 6627: Violence In Sports
- ... should avoid symbolic associations with professional teams--e.g. names, logos. They should not model their own coaching techniques on those of professional coaches (Coakley, pp. 107-8). Weiser and Love (p. 5) recommend that school coaches implement strategies to foster feelings of team ownership among players, replacing the traditional hierarchy--authoritarian coach, submissive players--that governs the coach-player relationship in professional sports. Encourage input, permit participation in decision-making ...
- 6628: Boris Yeltsin
- ... Klavdiya Vasilyevna Yeltsina was a seamstress. In his youth Boris blew off two fingers trying to disarm a hand grenade (he was most likely playing with it not disarming it). Boris graduated from Pushkin High School in Berezniki where his parents lived from the late 1930's to the early 1970's. After graduation, Boris went to Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk. While in college, Boris played pro volleyball for Sverdlovsk ...
- 6629: Carl Gauss
- ... time that Carl was teaching himself to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations. When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one ...
- 6630: TV Trash?
- ... the host or other guests. On most shows the crowd will “boo” the bad guests and sympathize with the hurt ones. Even the talk show hosts will take a roll in this with a “stern school-principal style” or a “maternal-therapeutic approach” (36 Willis). Willis would even go, as far to say that talk shows would under certain sircumstances be a benefit to our daily lives. Take for example a ...
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