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Hawa Al-lahrari ( Bill Gates ) (Ideas (Malala, Nelson Mandela, Cars,…

- - - - The journey took 3 or 4 years and was a difficult adventure. Marco Polo caught a illness and was forced to take a few days to rest in the mountains of northern Afghanistan.Polo has said there is "nothing at all to eat," in the Gobi Desert.
      - Khan invited them to stay and Niccolo and Maffeo become part of his court. Marco taught himself the Chinese culture, quickly learning the language. Khan was impressed and eventually afford Marco the position of the special envoy. The Polo's stayed in China for 17 years.
      - During the 2 year journey returning home by sail across the Indian Ocean, 600 passengers, died. By the time they reached Hormuz in Persia and left the Mongol princess, just 18 passenger remained alive on board. The prince also died, so the Polo's had to sneak in to Persia to find a suitable match for the Mongol princess.
        
        Eventually the Polo's made it back to Venice after being away for 24 years. People did not recognize them and the Polos had a hard time trying to speak Italian.
- - - - Bill was very close with his mother, Mary, who after a short career as a teacher took all her time to raise her children and working on civic affairs and with charities. She would take Bill with her when she volunteered at schools and at community organizations.
      - Bill Gates as born in an upper middle-class family with an older sister, Kristianne, and a younger sister, Libby.The Gates family was a very close together family, and all three children were encouraged to be competitive and do there best at everything. Bill
        Gates showed early signs of competitiveness when he planned the family games at their summer house on Puget Sound. He also was a very competitive in boardgames, he was excellent at Monopoly.
      - Bill really liked to read as a child, he would spend many hours everyday reading over reference books for example encyclopedia. When he was around the age of 11 or 12, Bill's parents began to worry about his behaviour. He was doing well very well in school with his grades, but he alway seemed bored and his parents worried he might not have any friends. Though they believed in public education, when Bill turned 13, they signed him up at the Seattle's exclusive preparatory Lakeside School. He explored nearly all his subjects, doing excellent in math and science, but also doing very well in the arts and English. Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the college SAT test.
        
        Gates started at Harvard University in the fall of 1973, originally thinking of a career in law. But his freshman year saw him spend more of his time in the computer lab than in classroom. Gates did not really like studying. Instead, he could get by on a few hours of sleep, cram for a test, and pass with a reasonable grade. Within two years Gates dropped out of college in 1975 to pursue his business, Microsoft, with partner Paul Allen.
        
        At Lakeside School Bill met Paul Allen. The pair became fast friends, bonding over their common interests for computers, even though they were very different people. Allen was more calm and shy. Bill was loud and at times combative. Regardless of their differences, they both spent much most of there free time together working on programs. Sometimes, the two disagreed and would argue over who was right or who should run the computer lab. On one occasion, their argument grew to a point where Paul banned Bill from the computer lab.
        
        In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed Micro-Soft, a combination of "micro-computer" and "software". Although the company had a shaky start, by 1979 Microsoft was gaining approximately $2.5 million, and, at the age of 23, Gates placed himself as the head of the company. Gates personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, often rewriting code himself when he saw it necessary need.
        
        Following the software for IBM, between 1979 and 1981 Microsoft's growth exploded. Staff increased from 25 to 128. In the middle of 1981, Gates and Allen incorporated Microsoft, and Bill was appointed president of the board. Allen was named executive vice president.