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Bill Gates
<view this essay>.... 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. BASIC was first developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s.
In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing softwa .....
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Offensive At St. Mihiel
<view this essay>.... St. Mihiel and turned West to Port sur Sielle (see Map 1). The Area itself was mostly made up of plains with some spots of woods here and there. It was all fairly low ground with large ponds and swampy areas.
Holding the salient was a German force known as Army Detachment “C”, commanded by General Fuchs. Which was composed of eight divisions and two brigades, with five divisions in reserve. In the Southern most part of the salient, the Germans occupied two hills: Loupmont and Montsec, (see map 2), which made excellent defensive positions for them, and gave the Germans the high ground. The reason the salient was so important to the Germans was that it in .....
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Digital Block For A Fucntion Generator
<view this essay>.... later. The table of achievable frequencies can be found at the end of this report.
User inputs are also digitally processed in this function generator and sent out as digital signals to other parts of this function generator namely the amplifier module. Also a filter selector circuit is built in after the digital block. The user inputs controlling frequency and symmetry are also built into this control block.
Therefore it is clear that the digital block can be divided into 4 distinct blocks, each with its own functionality. These blocks are the control module, counter module, filter control module and 8-bit D/A. The D/A chosen is the DAC0801LCN. It’s .....
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American Attack On Omaha And Utah Beaches During D Day
<view this essay>.... their arrival. Over the course of a few hours, the visions of Omaha and Utah Beaches, and the death and destruction accompanied with them formed a permanent fixation in the minds of the American Invaders. The Allied invasion of Europe began on the 6th of June 1944, and the American assault on Utah and Omaha beaches on this day played a critical role in the overall success of the operation. (Astor 352)
An extensive plan was established for the American attack on Utah and Omaha Beaches. The plan was so in-depth, and complex, its descriptions detailed the exact arrivals of troops, armor, and other equipment needed for the invasion, and where exactly on the beach t .....
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Air Planes During Ww1
<view this essay>.... the longest involving numerous turns,
usually returning to near the starting point.
Not until 1906 did anyone else fly in an airplane. In that year short hops were
made by a Hungarian, Trajan Vuia, living in Paris, and by Jacob Christian
Ellehammer, in Denmark. The first officially witnessed flight in Europe was
made in France, by Alberto Santos-Dumont, of Brazil. His longest flight, on
November 12, 1906, covered a distance of about 220 m (722 ft) in 22.5 sec. The
airplane, the 14- bis, was of his own design, made by the Voisin firm in Paris,
and powered with a Levavasseur 40-hp Antoinette engine. The airplane
resembled a large box kite, with a smaller .....
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Slavery In America
<view this essay>.... was an organized route where Europeans would travel to Africa bringing manufactured goods, capture Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and then take the crops and goods and bring them back to Europe. The African people, in order to communicate invented a language that was a mixture of all the African languages combined,called Creole. They also kept their culture which accounts for calypso music and the instruments used in these songs.
Slavery was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed the Act of the National Convention abolishing slavery. It would take America about a hundred years to do the same. George Washington, America's first pre .....
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The Salem Witch Trials
<view this essay>.... the hallucinations.
In order to understand the different theories, it is important to present a brief summary of what happened during . The most popular historical perspective of what occurred is that in early 1692, the Rev. Samuel Parris's 9-year-old daughter Elizabeth and his 12-year-old niece Abigail Williams, “began to fall into horrid fits” (“Witch”). The village doctor William Griggs gave his opinion that the girls were the “victims of witchcraft” (“Witch”). There has been discussion as to whether these fits were true in nature, or if the girls were acting. There has also been some discussion as to the possibility that the girls were caught in behavior .....
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Inherit The Wind
<view this essay>.... Matthew Harrison Brady
did exactly that. A gray-haired man, he believes strongly in the Bible took the stand. Although
his partner Tom Davenport strongly disagreed with Brady’s actions. Brady thought that this
would benefit his trial. “Your Honor, this is preposterous!” (page 75) said Davenport as he tries
to object to Drummond’s witness (Brady). The judge believed the actions of Drummond to be
highly unorthodox and claimed to have never known a prosecuting attorney to be called as a
witness. Brady agreed replying, “Your Honor, this entire trial is unorthodox. If the interests of
Right and Justice will be served, I will take the stand.” (page .....
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