...Foundation Paper I have chosen The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations. We live in a world today were everyday the economy grows weaker and weaker and with the world being in such great desire it is people like Bill and Melinda Gates who makes so much possible for people like you and I to survive. Through their foundation so many lives are being save every day, so many children are being educated with technology made for this generation of children to learn. I will explore several aspects of the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation to show just how they truly make a difference in the world today. Bill and Melinda Gates are two very high profiled people their foundation is one of the largest in the world. With the founders being some of the richest people in the world with a net worth in the billions dollars, Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation has become a source of endless fascination and discussion in the nonprofit world. This foundation is about giving everyone an equal opportunity to thrive. It helps to reduce or eliminate obstacles in people lives things like poor health and nutrition and weak educational systems. Although there are a lot of things this foundation does most of it spending goes toward three main issues improving education in American, global health, and global development. When it comes to global health in January of 2010 Bill and Melinda announced their foundation would double the amount of money being spent on vaccine within the next 10 years to a sum of...
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...Eliminating Malaria Brown 1 Malaria was first discovered in ancient times. The cause of Malaria was discovered by French scientist Alphonse Laveran in 1880 and 20 years later the type of mosquito responsible for the transmission was discovered by scientists in Italy and India. There is no malaria vaccine that has been proven to be effective and researchers all over the world are working to find a vaccine that will eventually eliminate malaria. Despite the obstacles, they are optimistic that a vaccine is in reach. Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium and it is transmitted by certain types of mosquitos. Once bitten, the parasite targets liver cells and then proceeds to target red blood cells (RBCs). According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), “Because the malaria parasite is found in RBCs, malaria can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplant, or the shared use of needles or syringes contaminated with blood. Malaria also may be transmitted from a mother to her fetus before or during delivery” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 12). Malaria is very uncommon in the United States; however, it is still widespread in tropical and subtropical countries. It is mainly a problem in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and the Indo-Pacific regions. According to Dr. Ananya Mandal: In 2010, according to the World Health Organization, there were 216 million episodes of malaria and 655,000 deaths worldwide...
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...------------------------------------------------- Bill Gates From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other people named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation). Bill Gates | Gates in June 2015. | Born | William Henry Gates III October 28, 1955 (age 59) Seattle, Washington, U.S. | Residence | Medina, Washington, U.S. | Nationality | American | Alma mater | Harvard University (dropped out) | Occupation | Technology Advisor of Microsoft Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO of Cascade Investment Chair of Corbis | Years active | 1975–present | Net worth | US$76.5 billion (October 2015)[1] | Board member of | Microsoft Berkshire Hathaway | Religion | Roman Catholicism (formerlyCongregationalism)[2] | Spouse(s) | Melinda Gates (m. 1994) | Children | 3 | Parent(s) | William H. Gates, Sr. Mary Maxwell Gates | Website | the Gates Notes | Signature | | William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.[3][4][5] In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO andchief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.[6][a] Gates has authored and co-authored several books. Starting in 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people[9] and...
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...Jammie Hoffman Advanced Comp& Economics Research Paper 4/19/16 Bill Gates & the Success of Microsoft An entrepreneur is a risk-taker, someone who takes chances to pursue a goal. Entrepreneurs must understand what consumers want and must create a product that drives these consumers towards making a purchase. Understanding the patterns of an economy is a rather difficult task to handle, and only a select few are about to flourish with the way the economy functions. Either an entrepreneur will risk everything and fail, or they will manage to overcome the odds and create a project that could change the face of our economy. Many entrepreneurs fail to make a product successful and hardly any is as recognizable as the creator of Microsoft, Bill Gates. Bill (William) Gates was born on October, 28th, 1955 in Seattle, Washington to an upper- middle-class couple. Gates was the second of three children. Gates developed an early interest in computers and computer software after his parents enrolled him in a private school known as the Lakeside school (Foley). While at Lakeside, Gates met his eventual business partner, Paul Allen. Gates, 15 years old at the time, and Paul, who was two years older, proved their enthusiasm for computers by creating a software system known as “Traf-o-Data.” The objective of this system was to track traffic patterns throughout the city of Seattle. “Traf-o-Data” brought in $20,000 for the two young entrepreneurs (Editors). The system did not become...
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...Famous Thinkers Paper PHL/458 11/4/2013 Famous Thinkers Two famous thinkers are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and William “Bill” Gates. I admire these two famous thinkers for the impact and influence they both have had on society. These two famous thinkers have contributed and positively affected many lives past and present. Both famous thinkers had to overcome hardships and use their creative minds to deal with challenges, obstacles, and issues. These two have changed and created their own history and legacy, which will be written in history books for the world to see. Contributions to Society Born Michael King Jr. in 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most recognized civil rights leader in history. His father was Baptist minister and raised him to follow in his footsteps as a minister as well. During the civil rights movement Dr. King headed a crusade to help Americans to gain the same human rights, despite their origin or skin color. Dr. King had numerous contributions to society and is remembered for his non-violent movement. Dr. King was honored most for his heroic civil rights activism in the United States as well as a prophet of peace and justice in a world torn by Vietnam. Dr. King led the fight in 1956 to desegregate the bus lines in Montgomery, Alabama. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference appointed him the head position, which was to create racial equality throughout the country using non- violence. Dr. King was most famous...
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...BILL GATES: America’s Richest Harvard Drop-Out William H. Gates was born on October 28, 1955. The only son of William H. Gates II, Bill Gates the Third lived the life of any other normal Seattle boy. His mother, Mary Gates, was a strong advocate for education. She was a schoolteacher, served on the board of regents at the University of Washington, as well as serving as chairwoman of the United Way International. Young Bill attended a public elementary school and shortly thereafter found his passion for computer programming at the age of thirteen. Unbeknownst to his lawyer father and schoolteacher mother, their son was destined to become one most significant forces behind the growth of person computing and the software industry as a whole. In 1973 Gates left home and began his freshmen year at Harvard University. It was here he made the acquaintance of Steve Ballmer, a fellow student who lived just down the hall from Bill. During his studies at Harvard, he continued his computer programming. According to the Bill Gates web site, he developed “a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer-the MITS Altair.” After approximately two years of study at Harvard, Gates dropped out to pursue his vision of making computer technology a medium to be used by the average person on a daily basis. With the help of his boyhood friend, Paul Allen, Microsoft was born. Microsoft, destined for huge growth would later need a chief executive officer...
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... ABSTRACT In this paper the writer will be discussing Microsoft’s business structure. The organizations socioeconomics will be addressed, along with the business environment and legal issues. The writer will be describing the multinational, multifaceted structures of management and the operational factors that go along with it. The complexities of being one of the largest, most successful entities in the world and all the finances involved with that position. Some of the problems encountered in the conglomerate make up of Microsoft organization will be analyzed. And of course, due mention will be made in regards to the leadership and guidance behind the innovation and accomplishments of this business. Mr. Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman and chief software architect. The man, the myth and the legend behind Microsoft and a key factor in the role of technology and the potential outcome of the computer software industry. Microsoft Corporation is a lot more than the largest software company in the world. Microsoft is a cultural phenomenon! In 1972 a nineteen year old young man had a vision, a passion and the knowledge and creativity it took to be motivated and resourceful enough to open mindedly adapt to the yet uncharted world of computer technology. Bill gates had the 10 cornerstones for personal and professional success, neatly in place! As the success story goes, less is...
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...Longform Reviews Video Tech Science Entertainment Cars Design Business US & World Forums Facebook Twitter Guest editor Bill Gates Can mobile banking revolutionize the lives of the poor? By Ben Popper We're excited to have Bill Gates as our guest editor in February. Throughout the month, Bill will be sharing his vision of how technology will revolutionize life for the world's poor by 2030 by narrating episodes of the Big Future, our animated explainer series. In addition, we'll be publishing a series of features exploring the improvements in banking, health, farming, and education that will enable that revolution. And while the topics reflect the bets Bill and his wife Melinda are making with their foundation, they've asked us for nothing less than fully independent Verge journalism, which we're more than happy to deliver. Turns out Bill Gates is a pretty confident guy. Nilay Patel, Editor-in-Chief In the village of Sori along the banks of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, fishing has long been the lynchpin of the local economy. Jobs here are largely divided by gender: men catch the fish, and the women process the meat, take it to market, and handle finances. As detailed in a 2012 study from the SIT Graduate Institute, residents of Sori traditionally kept their money at home. Theft was a constant concern, and many of the women interviewed reported their husbands misappropriating their savings. For many, traditional banks were either too far away, or demanded minimum deposits...
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...Discussion Question 1 In W2: Assignment 2 you will be doing a short research paper. But here, in this assignment, you will choose a topic for that paper. From the list below, select a topic. Potential Research Topics (Pick One) • Social networking • Security of the Internet • Technology and cars • How technology can help you learn • Privacy and security of cell phones • Technology and your major • The best ways to learn new technology • How to protect yourself from identity theft • Video game addiction • Do games help students learn? • Technology and sports (stadiums, equipment, training, safety, or tracking, etc.) • What is open source? • Web 2.0: What is it, and why is it different? • What is the history of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? What are their current projects? • How has TiVo affected advertising and network programming? • How has technology affected families? • Twitter and Facebook in business today • Online shopping—benefits and hazards • How and why to do a podcast • Search engine optimization (SEO) • Doing genealogy online • Cybercrime • Computer forensics • Radio frequency identification (RFID) • Computer storage devices, capacity, and longevity • Disaster recovery plans • Technology and a career (real estate, sales person, manager, teacher, pastor, nonprofit, funeral director, etc.) • What influence has videoconferencing made on business, medicine, education, and social lives? • How will Internet2...
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...subscribers and nonsubscribers who buy access to a single article, Steven C. Inchcoombe, chief executive officer of the Nature Publishing Group, said in an interview outlining the decision. "But we think the bigger risk is pretending it’s not happening," Mr. Inchcoombe said of the growing movement toward open-access formats, and Nature finding itself in a world where "that usage [is] gradually migrating elsewhere, and us being left as a glorified digital archive making available content to fuel activity everywhere else." The move follows steadily growing pressure on publishers to permit open access to articles describing research produced with taxpayer dollars. Last year the Obama administration introduced rules requiring journals to make articles about federally financed research available to the public within 12 months. And last month the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it would require that its sponsored researchers publish only in journals that allow immediate open access. Doubts About Alternatives Among the major science journals, Nature has been recognized by open-access advocates as especially receptive to helping scientists share their work. "It wants to be prepared for a world in which open access becomes more and more the...
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...financial institutions to use agents in the provision of banking services so as to reduce the cost of financial services and to foster financial inclusion, reach and depth. Commercial Banks worldwide offer similar kinds of services, but they could provide differences in terms of service quality. This paper analyzes past studies regarding service quality improvement in the agency banking sector. The continuing trend to a model of service quality improvement, from personnel counter services to electronic services, will be demonstrated. Improved service quality should be adopted to maintain the core competence and this research will contribute towards knowledge and background for banks to apply these findings to better shape and focus their positions in the market and also to provide service quality to customers through the agency banking concept. Introduction A banking agent is a retail or postal outlet contracted by a financial institution or a mobile network operator to process clients’ transactions. Rather than a branch teller, it is the owner or an employee of the retail outlet who conducts the transaction and lets clients deposit, withdraw, and transfer funds, pay their bills, inquire about an account balance, or receive government benefits or a direct deposit from their employer. Banking agents can be pharmacies, supermarkets, convenience stores, lottery outlets, post offices, and many more. Banking agents help financial institutions to divert existing customers from crowded...
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...Do failing schools benefit from school consolidation? “YES” SIDE (Terrell) With the continuing economic decline and the increasing pressures for schools to show improvement, many districts are seriously considering the controversial issue of school consolidation. One way many districts are trying to avoid huge consolidations is by creating charter schools. Charter schools are viewed as great solutions because they allow districts to continue to receive public funding while not having to uphold the same rules and regulations as regular public schools. Many proponents view charter schools as a solution to the economic crisis facing public education because they recognize that it allows districts to continue to receive federal and state funding while serving fewer students. With many charter schools promising to challenge students more academically, more advanced students tend to leave public schools in favor of this promise. Charters decrease the quality of education for students who stay behind by bleeding off caring parents and motivated students (Clabaugh, 2009). As public schools lose more funding and the better performing students, the struggle to compete academically by purchasing updated computers and equipment, hiring more experienced faculty and staff, and increasing state and national test scores not only continues, but also increases. With charter schools being controlled by fewer rules and regulations than public schools, much room is left for mistakes...
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...14th November 14 14th November 14 Word Count: 1465 Word Count: 1465 08 Fall 08 Fall Abbreviations: CL Compulsory Licensing NGO’s Non-governmental Organisation’s R&D Research and Development RDT Rapid Detection Tests TRIPS Trade- Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights WTO World Trade Organisation Abbreviations: CL Compulsory Licensing NGO’s Non-governmental Organisation’s R&D Research and Development RDT Rapid Detection Tests TRIPS Trade- Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights WTO World Trade Organisation Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Introduction 2 Factors effecting the control of malaria 3 What is the role of the pharmaceutical companies? 5 Recommendations 6 Reference List 8 Introduction This report aims to address the issues regarding the availability of drugs in the developing world in addition to what measures the developed world could use to ease the burden, including the evaluation of the options available and the potential cumulative effects that would accompany these processes. For the purpose of this paper, the author will concentrate on the infection rates in humans of Malaria in Sierra Leone. Although malaria is deemed as a preventable disease many factors inhibit the eradication of infection rates. In the recent World Malaria Report (2013) Sierra Leone is ranked as the country with the fifth highest prevalence rate per capita in addition to fifty percent of the population...
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...Economics of a College Drop Out Research Term Paper By Eleazar Rangel 7/02/2013 South Texas College Econ 2302 Professor Oscar Plaza A. Introduction: Economics of a Dropout High cost of college and several other factors are causing the number of college dropouts to rise drastically. Understanding why this numbers are soaring is important. For example why has the rise of the cost of college nearly sextupled since 1985? Or why has the student loan debt held by Americans surpassed the $1 trillion mark? In addition to answering these questions, I will discuss the different arguments, opinions; facts regarding the toll college dropout play in this economy, and finally my final point regarding this college dropout syndrome. B. The issue: Why are students dropping out of college? This is an important topic because what factors cause students to drop out of college? According to a study from Harvard University, only 56% of students who enter college or universities graduated within a six-year period (only 29% who enter a two-year program graduate within a three year span). A main factor, according to the Harvard study, is the rising cost of the college education. Since 1985 the amount of student loan debt has surpassed the $1trillion mark and cost of a college education has sextupled. The graph below, by the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, shows the difference in price changes since 1985. As you can see in the graph college tuition and fees has drastically...
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...FINANCIAL INCLUSION USING PRADHAN MANTRI JAN-DHAN YOJANA - A CONCEPTUAL STUDY 1. Mr. Divyesh Kumar, Research Scholar, Assistant Professor, Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology and Management, Udayapura, Kanakapura Road, Bangalore – 560082 email: divyesh.kumar4@gmail.com Mob: +91 9448888381 2. Dr. H R Venkatesha, Research Guide, Director, Acharya Bangalore B School, 5th cross, Syndicate Bank Employees Housing society layout, Off Magadi Road, Andrahalli Main Road, Bangalore – 560091 email: hrvenkatesha@gmail.com Mob: +91 9448407444 DECLARATION This is to certify that the paper titled “FINANCIAL INCLUSION USING PRADHAN MANTRI JAN-DHAN YOJANA - A CONCEPTUAL STUDY” is an original work by us and the same has not been submitted earlier for any publication / conferences / seminars. Divyesh Kumar Dr. H R Venkatesha ABSTRACT Financial inclusion or inclusive financing is the delivery of financial services at affordable costs to sections of disadvantaged and low-income segments of society, in contrast to financial exclusion where those services are not available or affordable. An estimated 2.5 billion working-age adults globally have no access to the types of formal financial services delivered by regulated financial institutions. Financial inclusion is an innovative concept which enables the alternative techniques to promote the banking habits and acts as enabler in reducing the poverty and the launch of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) by Government...
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