Melinda Sordino

Chapter 10, we learned about Walton, Annenberg, Ford and Gates. These four, of many, foundations had very good intentions. For example, The Gates Foundation, established in 2000 with a 30 billion dollar grant, wanted to create smaller schools. Bill and Melinda Gates, who really had no idea how to run a school or even knew what students needed in order to thrive, decided to take one school that was going to close and divide it into five schools. There were five buildings that were apart of the…

Have you ever wondered why you remember graphic description more than textual description? It is because graphics expedite and escalate the level of understanding more than text. Randy Krum, a designer and author says, “people love using pictures to communicate because its hardwired into the human brain.” Information is poured out daily; the digital age has made it accessible to all. We lack the time to go through copious data; infographics represent the same boring data in an interesting and…

Gates tremendously changed the lives of American citizens. Bill revolutionized the technology industry by personalizing it and created one of the largest monopolies in U.S. history. Along with this honorable achievement, currently, Bill and his wife, Melinda are extremely involved with charity work and make enormous contributions to philanthropic causes. These are the great contributions that Bill Gates has made to history and he will forever be discussed as one of the most influential people of…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in the year 1999 when Bill Gates combined three charitable family foundations. Today, it is the largest private foundation worldwide, and “the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world” (Bates, 2010). The foundation is worth an estimated $40 billion, which makes it the richest charitable trust in the world. The foundation follows a guiding principle “…that every life has equal value”, and, therefore, focuses its…

When attempting to come across a potential topic about something that can actually make a huge impact on the lives of people, I aimed at looking for two things. The first was something that can actually affect the lives of people living in third world countries. The world currently goes through enough products to use up about 3-5 Earths, even with all these third world countries being so out of loop of the technological advances that happened in the past two to three centuries. I wanted to be…

The world’s top 100 billionaires earned enough money to end world poverty four times over in 2012. (Oxfam 2) Indeed, it would seem the wealthy have the potential to make the world a better place, yet all too often they squander it. The list is comprised almost entirely of business men and women from around the globe. Tremendously powerful owners and executives who make decisions each day that affect thousands of people. Business executives and shareholders have a great influence on the…

JOEY A civil war is a war between groups of people in the same country. In Liam o’Flaherty’s “The Sniper” and Hwang sunwon’s “Cranes” both authors used a civil war as their setting. Although the topic for each story is similar there are things that were different. Bill gates essay In this essay i will be talking about bill gates. and his important features in life. the three features are he is one of the most 100 influential people in the world. also he is a executive…

Bill Gates is the co-founder and a part time Chairman of Microsoft, the largest PC software company. He organizes many charities that support education and world health. He was also the wealthiest man in the world from 1995-2014. But Gates didn't get into this position only by intelligence, but by his leadership skills. Throughout the years, he has shown many qualities of a good leader. These qualites include ambition, selflessness, motivation, and intelignece. His ambition is shown through…

In Ohio, 15.8% of the people are considered at poverty level land there are not enough free clinics for the people to receive check ups (Larrick, Ohio Poverty Report 2016). Especially for women, because 11% of women in Ohio are uninsured and there are a limited amount of free clinics (Health Care for Women, Department of Government Affairs). Therefore, the Government needs to provide funding, so that there can be more free clinics for women that are in families that earn low income between…

Melinda and I believe that all lives have equal value regardless of where you live on the globe. We are the real definition of philanthropists. To surprise you all even more Melinda and I have decided against leaving our three children Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe a large sum of our fortune. When most people run into wealth the first thing they…