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their own expenses or even running off with hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is a concern that shouldn’t be ignored, but we should not forget that relative to the number of saved lives, the amount of money lost to corruption is unimportant. Bill gates in his same letter pointed out that “four of the past seven governors of Illinois have gone to prison for corruption, and to my knowledge no one has demanded that Illinois schools be shut down or its highways closed.” The intended benefactors…

While those living in more developed nations simply have to turn the faucet handles when they want drinking water or to wash our clothes, for countless of millions more worldwide, this simple act often turns into an ordeal. As such, world organizations from several developed and undeveloped nations convened recently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to identify and target the five most urgent needs currently found in every third world nation--be it Latin America, Africa or elsewhere. Our article below…

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…

Beowulf’s Bravery Beowulf, in the famous medieval poem of the same name, is the courageous and mighty protagonist in the story. He is a fierce warrior that is much beloved by his people and followers, as well as those he has helped through the years with vanquishing monsters and such. With every challenge that comes his way and through every battle he partakes in, he shows a tremendous amount of bravery, something that is most admired knowing the danger he constantly places himself in. There…

The world today has many business owners, from small business to huge ones such as Trump’s empire, they all have varying amounts of success. Each one is unique in their own way. But many of those businesses have outrageous fame and popularity, enough in fact that people come all over the world to try their foods or even stay a night at their hotel, etc. Sometimes people come just to meet the famed business owner of multi-billion dollar companies, such as Bezos Expeditions, founded by Jeff Bezos.…

Bernard Madoff and the Largest Financial Scam in History Class Assignment 1. Why in your opinion did Bernard Madoff do this? He had been exceedingly successful in the electronic exchange trading that he had started and his firm continued, and he had clearly achieved both wealth and stature. What was it that drove him, again in your view, “off the cliff”? What does this say about the human character? What does this say about the nature and/or culture of the investment community? After reading…

Bill Gates is a very wealthy man; although he did not finish college, he still had a goal and did everything to obtain that goal. His family was very wealthy and paid for his schooling, so he had a lot of money to back him up. Gates and his wife are also very charitable people giving millions of dollars to organizations of their choosing. Bill Gates is one of the most influential men in many people’s lives today because of his achievements. Bill Gates was born in 1954 when no one in the world…

Entrepreneurial Legend - Warren Buffett For my famous economic entrepreneurial legend I have chosen Warren Buffett. He is agruably one of the richest men in the world with a net worth of over 70 billion. Coincidentally, Warren Buffet earned his MS in economics in 1951. As CEO of Birkshire Hathaway his company’s Class A stock lists for around 213,000 per share. Birkshire Hathaway’s company performace regularly outperforms the class of Index 500 stocks. Buffett has taken on considerable investment…

students to pursuit their personal desires to achieve goals. However, students are struggling with insufficient interest on class material. So, who is to blame? Students? According to a study called “The Silent Epidemic,” funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, motivation deficiency is the number one reason students are dropping out of school. Classes are not engaging students to participate in the learning process. Motivation is influenced by the amount of standardized tests, diminish…

Is a college education really beneficial? Controversial question without context as higher education is pushed to students of all ages in this day and age. However, the need for that question stems from the inadequacy of higher education today. Unfortunately there is an abundance of issues throughout Colleges and Universities in the United States. These issues range from untrained professors to apathetic students who are okay with scraping by living by the motto “C’s get degrees” as long as they…