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    While pondering the correlation between intelligence and success, a list of successful people deserve recognition. Only one person, however, can be the wealthiest individual in the United States of America. That individual is none other than William Henry “Bill” Gates III (Khan, “Gates, Bill 1955-“). Gates, a prosperous entrepreneur and technology mogul, has demonstrated both practical and IQ intelligence through both his experiences and successes in life. Gates’ upbringing and childhood accomplishments

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    a short while, Imagine that you just have a unique tool with you, which no one in this world possesses. This tool is specified that it can change the situation of the whole world and mankind forever. If somebody asks you that, what you are going to do with this tool? Can you share this with others? Or will you retain it with you. So that you’ll build billions out of it! Isn’t it fascinating? Depending on one’s inclination and angle he could select either of those. Somebody can munificently share

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    Vancouver Housing Crisis

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    Canada has a narrow range for destinations, between 1991-96, 61% of the immigrants settled within Toronto or Vancouver. Immigration is the leading elements of growth within the city and accounting for 80% of the growth from 91-96, this up turn began in 86 after the world

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    With the grace of a cat, twenty-one year old pilot Charles Yeager swung up to the cockpit of his P-51, calm and straight-faced. It was a practice he’d repeated at least a hundred times. After three months of combat, he was ready to go. He sat down, and swung the bullet-proof glass canopy down hard, making sure it would latch. Flipping a few levers, he roared the plane down the runway, expertly lifting the plane off the ground. The rest of his flight formation had already taken off. He was stationed

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    Comparing Microsoft DOS with UNIX As is suggestive of its name, an operating system (OS) is a collection of programs that operate the personal computer (PC). Its primary purpose is to support programs that actually do the work one is interested in, and to allow competing programs to share the resources of the computer. However, the OS also controls the inner workings of the computer, acting as a traffic manager which controls the flow of data through the system and initiates the starting and

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    Fighter Interceptor Wing

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    Canadian variant of the F-86. Not only was the plane more

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    The P-80 was a more effective fighter jet than the MiG-15 because of its small size and maneuverability, its fast rate of fire and its versatility of weapons, and its superior range compared to the MiG-15. In order to examine the airplanes effectiveness, we must first look at the background of the P-80 and why it was used in the first place. In 1943 head engineer at Lockheed, Kelly Johnson, gathered his team of mechanics and engineers. He explained that the U.S. Air Force had ordered them to work

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    1981, Microsoft bought all the rights to an operating system (OS) called 86-DOS and worked closely with IBM to develop it further as MS-DOS. MS-DOS was an operating system without any graphical windows or mouse pad controls. The users had to type in the demand manually. In 1985, Microsoft published the first Windows 1.0 operating system, however, it was not an independent OS, rather a graphical implementation of the MS-DOS commands. Windows 3.1, published in 1992, was the first operating system that

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    Her Breaking Point

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    "You must be Brooklyn," the middle aged lady, behind the counter, beams. Her warm greeting seemed to calm my growing nerves. She leans over the counter abruptly, wrapping her strong arms around my body. The nerves were back. As soon as she pulls away my eyes scan the small shop, searching for any possible audience. Luckily the only other person inside was oblivious to the situation. The stranger instantly grasps my attention; his lean body was nearly pressed against the shelf, and his head darts

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    Unit 2 Assignment 1

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    Operating systems have the responsibility to ensure that users do not access the system illegally. They also perform different tasks such as managing system resources, communicate between software and hardware, monitoring performance and operate utilities and applications. Windows XP operating system features

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