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…
239. The Crossing. Bill Viola. 1996 C.E. video/sound installation. Bill Viola’s The Crossing, created in 1996 C.E., is a room-sized video installation that is made up of a large two-sided screen onto which two video sequences are projected at the same time. They each open in the same fashion: having a male figure walking slowly towards the front of the camera, his body dramatically lit from above, appearing to glow against the black background. After some time, he pauses and stands completely…
As a volunteer intern in the Online Services department of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), I focused on collecting pertinent articles from the old children's website and presenting them in a kid-friendly manner on the redesigned JDRF Kids Online. As I helped rebuild a resource I had often used before, I was drawn to the hundreds…
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…
The kimbell museum located in Fort worth texas, widely recognized for its different art pieces it houses. The kimbell hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. With the Kimbell having an impressive art collection, the Kimbell may need a more impressive building to house everything. But before we get into the building we need to know the people who designed it. Louis Kahn was born in Pärnu, Estonia, on February…
Creativity has been with the human race since the beginning of time, from designing complex infrastructures, to developing the first rocket to ever reach outer space.Creativity has lead to many of the most influential practices and ideas, and has inspired countless of other individual to think creatively. Although creativity may still be present today, it continues to fight a battle of extinction where creativity is bound to lose. While some scholars believe that creativity flourishes in society…
Greenpeace’s public and private position towards TTIP Greenpeace is a one of the biggest and highest-profile non-governmental global environmental campaigning group which consists of regional offices in more than 55 countries . It deals with campaigning with a mission to change attitudes and behaviour towards important environmental issues like climate change, protecting the biological diversity, preventing the pollution and so on. Greenpeace Netherlands was the organisation that leaked…
race, much attention has been brought to Donald Trump’s alleged claim that climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese. Although he denies making the statement, many registered voters believe that global warming does not exist. In the article, “Greenpeace Co-Founder: No Scientific Evidence of Man-Made Global Warming,” Michael Bastasch (2014) claims that “there is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm” (par. 1). In particular, Bastasch uses statements from…
utopian changes in society and in individual lives and attitudes. An example of of liberalism being challenged by alternative thought is the Greenpeace organization. Greenpeace is an international campaigning organization with an uncompromising voice for the environment. It is a catalyst for ethical, political, commercial, and technical change in society. Greenpeace campaigns puts the spotlight on the causes of environmental degradation…
values of egalitarian aspects of the natural environment, which the Nuu-chah-nulth have incorporated as a method of deflecting unregulated logging in the Clayoquot Sound. These traditional values are the foundation of tribal protest…