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    Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation: Bill Gates is one of the wealthiest men in the world, his net worth alone is $77.7 billion dollars as of July 14, 2016, ranking him number one of the wealthiest people on the planet according to Forbes. This to some, will not come as a big surprise since Gates is both the founder and owner of Microsoft Corporation. However, with great power comes great responsibility to dedicate the wealth you have earned to something that will benefit society. Gates has done just that, along with his wife Melinda Gates they have created a foundation called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.According to the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation website, there are many focuses within this foundation. Some of these focuses include health, poverty, education, and many others. Not only is there a focus in the United States, but there is also a great focus in Africa, India Europe, and South America. They have divided their efforts into three major divisions: Global Health,…

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    Melinda Gates is not only the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is also an American businesswoman and philanthropist that worked at Microsoft. But she confesses that she almost left the company because of it being a male dominated environment. Which is why Melinda Gates is pushing for diversity in the tech industry. More and more people are pushing women and young women to join the STEM world. And Melinda Gates is doing the same thing because she admits that she knows the…

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    conversation with Chris Anderson. Cohesion: In the beginning the couple appeared to have a marvelous flow of ideas. Starting with their trip to Africa , how they thought about helping the poor and establishing their organization to actually implementing it when they started giving examples about their work in different causes They also maintained the flow of ideas when they were talking about the collaboration between them to maintain the organization and a bit of flavor was added when they…

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    When Bill Gates went to school he made the school’s scheduling program. He also made the program put a disproportionately large amount of girls in his classes (“Bill Gates”). Bill Gates said he would be a millionaire by age thirty and now he is the richest person in the world. Then Bill Gates was arrested for driving without a license. He then dropped out of college and started Microsoft. Bill Gates had a very intriguing childhood. Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28th,…

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    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…

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    Composition 7.2 February 09, 2017 Bill Gates “The golden rule that all lives have equal value and we should treat people as we would like to be treated” (Tweedie). Bill Gate’s belief is that all lives rich or poor should have the same rights, and that money can not be taken with you in the end, so why not share it. Bill Gates is a self-made billionaire, business leader, entrepreneur, and a philanthropist (“Bill Gates”). William Henry Gates III, better known as Bill Gates was born on October…

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    The Great Impact of Bill Gates Bill 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…

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    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…

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    Bill Gates changed the world by his wonderful and useful inventions use in everyday life. Bill Gates made a major impact in this world not just by his inventions but by hard work, being intelligent and being open-minded.He even change the world through technology, business strategy and aggressive business plans, and by charities, He dropped out of college to chase career and so he and his partner/ friend, Paul Allen made the best microsoft in the world. Microsoft changed the world completely.…

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    Hello, I am Bobby Gates, the alter ego of William Henry Gates the third, or better known as Bill Gates. Bill is known to be one of the greatest business men in the world today or in all of history. I have managed several companies, been a huge investor in the world’s economy, and was a CEO- Co founder of the world’s largest PC software company Microsoft. I have also written several novels such as, The Road Ahead, Business at the speed of thought, and 6 pack. I have undoubtedly been very…

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