Choice Book Essay Recently, I read the book 'Gates, how Microsoft 's mogul reinvented an industry--and made himself the richest man in America ' by Paul Andrews and Stephen Manes in 1994. This was of course, during the time period when Apple was failing, and released an operating system, System 9, that nobody needed nor wanted in 1994. IBM sure wished they haven 't filed those separation papers now, when Microsoft stock stormed overhead, selling out of Windows 95 in less than two days globally. Over 2 million copies in fact, and the first publically available windows that didn 't run on top of MS-DOS, our ancient overlord. This book told the secret life of the ruler of the entire technology industry all the way to present day. The main author is one of my favorites, since he wrote many articles on PC world, and gave a somewhat honest review of Windows Vista, of course after Microsoft fired one of their top software engineers. Stephen Manes was even mentioned on the Personal Computers columnist for the Science Times section of the New York Times, and another on InformationWeek. At this time he was even a successful editor for PC Magazine, PC/Computing, PCjr, and Net guide. Marketing Computers also ranked him as one of the top 4 influential writes about the computer industry. He also wrote over 30 books for many audiences from children to young adults, including Chicken Trek. After placing in the International Reading Association Children 's Choice awards, and winning those
Henry Louis Gates, was a highly educated writer who wrote the essay “In The Kitchen”. Gates remanences when living in Piedmont, West Virginia, his mother did many people’s hair for quick cash in her kitchen. The people went to have “the very kinky bit of hair at the back of your head, where your neck meets your shirt collar” straightened, Gates states. The kinky hair in back of their heads, referred to as the kitchen in his culture. It was impossible to get rid of the kitchen, it was permanent, only possible ways of fixing costed much to afford. The way Gate’s mother was able to tame the kitchen was by using a “hot comb”; a pair of prongs, heated on top of the stove. Gates despised the kitchen because the politics of “good” and “bad” hair it
Henry L. Gates Jr. was born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia. Gates graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a degree in History. He proceeded with his instruction at Clare College, which is a piece of the University of Cambridge in England. He completed his doctorate degree in 1979, making him the primary African-American to get a Ph.D. from the college. Gates later republished the 1859 work by Harriet E. Wilson, entitled Our Nig, in 1983. Gates served an editorial manager on a few compilations and accumulations of African-American writing and added to the field of artistic hypothesis. In 1991, Gates turned into the leader of the African-American studies office at Harvard University. He is credited with changing the school's
David Garland begins by asserting: "We quickly grow used to the way things are." His description of our contemporary culture of control, and of our acceptance of it, calls to mind the mythical frog in the saucepan: dropped into hot water the frog is startled and leaps out; but if the heat is turned up gradually, it sits there without noticing until it boils to death. In our case - "our" in the book refers to Britain and the United States - most of us have failed to notice a quite rapid turning-up of the heat.
The words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink” (121-22) might well be applied to John Grisham’s A Painted House (despite the fact there was ample drinking water) because of the prominence of water in the novel. From the water pump in the Chandler’s yard (Grisham 20) to the demand of Hank Spruill to Luke Chandler for a drink of cold water (46-47) to the constant drone of the farmers about “rain, rain, rain,” (323), this monograph is filled with water. The most conspicuous water, however, is the St. Francis River and its tributary, Siler’s Creek. Since time immemorial, “water [has been recognized] as the preeminent symbol associated with creation, fertility, rebirth, renewal, [and] good harvests” (Stowkowski 25). Grisham, however, stretches the symbolic meaning of the waters to include things far beyond these that have been traditionally associated with them. Like many other aspects of the South, these bodies of water are two-faced, having both attractive and unattractive visages; they symbolize both positive and negative aspects (Osthaus 750).
Older style baby gates have a few issues that could endanger your baby, so it's vital that you think about them. Some of them have v-shaped spaces at the best, and these have all been reviewed on the grounds that they subject your baby to the danger of being caught in it. Some other more established baby gates have dangers, for example, spaces that can work as toe-holds, enabling your baby to move over the gate. On account of the risks found in more seasoned baby gates, I would suggest obtaining another gate over an utilized, more seasoned
During Jebidiah Smith’s tenure at Oxford University and after, the science of archaeology had not yet taken the proven form that modern science and technology have provided our scientists in this day. As the Oxford Professor, during his transcription of his greatest work, “A Commentary on the Book of Gates”, had only the occult tome to provide a learned look at the Yidathian environment his vivid descriptions using the Seer Stone of Dloth provided some unusual conclusions. Naturally, many academics considered him to be the fringe of the day, and without question the appearance of the Commentary had such an effect to many of the learned institutions of higher education. But his concepts have stood the test of time, as with some horror we have begun to discover many of the fossils and relics that he, in the nineteenth century, had speculated would be found.
Bill Gates is known all around the world as being the cofounder and chairman of the company Microsoft. Gates today, is the world’s wealthiest man and has become one of the most well-known influential people in the computer and technology industry. A hero is someone who has achieved incredible accomplishments and has many unique and courageous qualities. Throughout a hero’s adventure, they undergo a cycle in their life called the “The Heroic Cycle”, in the heroic cycle it describes many events that took place in the hero’s life. Some elements in the heroic cycle is that the hero begins their life in “The Ordinary World”, here the hero begins as just as any other ordinary person, one other element in the heroic cycle is, “Tests, Allies and Enemies”.
Theaster Gates was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. In 1996, he graduated from Iowa State University, with a B.S. in Urban Planning and Ceramics, and in 1998 he received a M.A. at the University of Cape Town in Fine Arts, and Religious Studies. He is considered a social practice installation artist. Social practice art focuses on social engagement, welcoming group effort with individuals, communities, and institutions in the creation of participatory art. It is also referred to as socially engaged art, community art, new-genre public art, participatory art, interventionist art, collaborative art.
The Gates project was located in Central Park, NY. The project was the symbolism of a gate, and was done by artists Christo and Jean Claude in 2005. It took 25 years to create this project that would temporarily last for 16 days. The project was all entirely generated by themselves rather then most public arts that are paid by taxes. The Gates had 4 administrations and during the time was the largest work of art in the city’s history. The Gates held a rectangular geometric aspect, and captured the character of NYC. The fabric itself was like a painting, the different times of day light would affect the effortless freely saffine colored fabric. Also, because the Gates was only temporarily, it made people of all different cultural backgrounds,
Parents of children under the age of five-years-old have their hands full when it comes to keeping their little ones safe. Very few places are designed to be childproof, so almost every moment of the day has to be spent keeping a watchful eye over the children to ensure that they don't get hurt. But while there is nothing that can be done about the outside world, parents can control how safe their home environment is though. And one way to do this is with retractable stair gates. Read on to find out more about all their amazing benefits.
Microsoft is a highly diversified company. Its technologically-related products span from software to music players to game consoles to web browsers to search engines to phones. However, its flagship product, the product which has been the primary driver of its profits has been Microsoft Windows, the ubiquitous operating system that runs on virtually every computer in the world. Windows has been deemed so critical that even Microsoft's competitor Apple was effectively forced by market pressures to allow its Macs to run Windows, in an effort to boost sales. "As astounding as Apple's success has been, it hasn't put a dent in the Microsoft Office monopoly. [Current CEO] Ballmer and company still profit on every Macbook running Word, Excel and PowerPoint" (Greg 2012).But while Microsoft continues to make its highly profitable Windows products (despite industry criticism about its user features); it has struggled to diversify in its many critical areas, most notable in its music, phones, and Internet service.
An author has a purpose for writing the many forms of nonfiction. The big reason author’s write nonfiction is to present information to the reader, to inform and to explain; however, they do write to entertain and persuade. Depending on what you are reading depends on what kind of information and how it is written.
In this book, Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates welcomes the age of the
In text “In the Kitchen”, writer Henry Louis Gates Jnr shows how the importance of culture, pride and appearance construct the identity of many African Americans. Gates text is centred around the “kitchen”, a word with a double meaning, the kitchen is the basis for the whole text where pride is centred and hair conditioning takes place. Gates uses elements of writing such as textual form, figurative language, idiom and tone to establish construct the identities of the African American society through the narrator’s eyes. In this academic essay, I will be giving examples for these elements of writing and how Gates has used them to shed different lights on the narrator’s story, letting the reader experience increasingly of the African American society.
All started when Bill Gate and Paul Allen, two friends that as early as 13 years old started to mess around with computers, drop out of college to create their own business. This business founded April 4, 1975 is known today as Microsoft Corporation. Allen and Gates created a basic interpreter for computers, that was rejected by Digital Research, but later on IBM made a contract with them. The creation of the MS-DOS for IBM in mid-80’s gave Microsoft the high rock success that still last till this day, making them the dominant operating system for personal computers. Likewise, Microsoft became at a later time the leading business in office suite software better known as Microsoft Office.