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    Bill Gates has been named the world’s wealthiest person four different times. This has come from being the founder of Microsoft the largest personal computer software company. Also from creating a great foundation with his wife that’s main focus is to help people living in poverty with their health. Bill Gates is an influential American because he helped bring forward the use of computers by his creation of his company Microsoft and helped people with diseases in poor countries. Bill Gates childhood

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    Bill Gates Hard Drive Inventor, Technician, and genius are 3 words that people remember Bill Gates. Many people know Bill Gates was a founder and creator of Microsoft, but he could do so much more. Thesis: As a well-known technology adviser, Bill gates affected Americans by the power of technology in computers and that you can improve your business if you try really hard. He left a lasting legacy as a technology expert. His early life is full of interesting stuff. When Bill Gates was young, he

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    William “Bill” Gates is a philanthropist, businessman, software developer, and most notably an entrepreneur who founded one of the largest company in the world; Microsoft and subsequently became the richest man in the world. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington and was born into a Christian family. At a young age Bill Gates showed keen interest and talent in the computer world, and later pursued it as his career in his life. From his skills, he and partner Paul Allen built

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    As the the inventor of the first computer, William H. Gates Jr. or his nickname, Bill Gates has impacted the world so greatly that his invention will affect the world for the rest of eternity. Imagine what life would be like without the computer. People at home would have to write documents by hand instead typing their documents on google docs. Kids would have to play outside everyday, without TV or video games. Also, social media wouldn’t be available, so people can’t text or facetime each other

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    at this crucial time Ronald Reagan, as several presidents had done before him, traveled to the Brandenburg Gate, seen by most as the symbolical center of the wall. On June 12, 1987, he then spoke of peace between the USSR and the Western world, while motivating Berliners to help take down the wall and come together as a nation once more. Throughout the speech “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate”, by Ronald Reagan, he makes use of imagery as well as appeals to ethos and pathos to incite the German people

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    Bill Gates is worth about 79.2 Billion US dollars, at his peak 101 Billion US dollars. Bill Gates is a computer programmer, entrepreneur who took the computer industry by storm. He formed the company Microsoft and made it a leading computer corporation within ten years of opening for business. Bill Gates later stopped working full time at Microsoft and focused on his Foundation called Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates is an amazing and interesting person to know about. Bill Gates

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    The world’s attitude towards the personal computer may have been completely different if not for one event: Bill Gates dropping out of Harvard. Gates came from a wealthy family in Seattle, Washington, but even at a young age, he knew how to take risks in order to follow his passion for computers. The developments that Microsoft has made, ranging from the earliest operating systems such as MS-DOS to the Microsoft Office Suite, have impacted the way that the personal computer operates. Microsoft products

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    adoptive parents Clara and Paul Jobs in Mountain View, California (“Steve Jobs” n.pg). 840 miles north, William Henry Gates III was born and raised with his two sisters in Seattle, Washington by his two parents, Mary and William Gates Sr. (“Bill Gates” n.pg). While young Steve Jobs entertained himself by playing cruel pranks on children and teachers at his elementary school, Gates found himself entranced by books and would read for hours each day. Eventually, these two polar opposites found themselves

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    William Henry (Bill) Gates the one of the founders of Microsoft is a business leader, a technologist, above all a philanthropist. Bill Gates was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington, his mother was a school teacher, regent at the University of Washington, chairwoman of the United Way International. Bill Gates father is an Attorney in Seattle and a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Melinda Gates is Bill’s wife and mother of their three children. (Gates, B. (2015). At an early

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    Mr. Gates continue his education in Harvard Law where he was admitted with a SAT score 1590 (over 99.65%) but on his second year he left all behind to pursue his vision. Vision Bill Gates is one of the most visionary leaders of our time. He created in his mind the idea of the greatness of computerized systems and that vision even though far at

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