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Do you think Bill Gates is a hero for helping all those poor countries and making a multi-million company? Bill Gates was a hero because he was always giving colleges money to find cures and vaccines for health care problems. He also mad Microsoft and helped a lot of people fix computers and make software’s for new computers.
Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. When Bill Gates was 13 he made is first computer program Bill Gates was also creator of Microsoft. When he was in the 7th grade he met a kid name Paul Allen. Both of them liked computer software and learning about computers. When they were older Bill and Paul co-founded Microsoft. After Paul left Microsoft Bill brought in a new guy to help run the business. Bill Gates later Married Melinda French a marketing executive at Microsoft. In 1975 Gates dropped out of Harvard and beginning his career in software design. At this time Gates and Allen co-founded Microsoft. By 1997 his worth was estimated at approximately $37 billion. Bill Gates and Melinda Gates decided to make a health foundation they would be giving money to poor countries and colleges. Since Bill Gates was very wealthy he gave Harvard’s health department a five-year, $20 million grant to study vitamins and mineral pills.
“Gates, William Henry III (1955)-).” Encyclopedia of World Biology. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Academic OneFile. Web. 5 May 2014.
: Bill Gates was a very helpful man when it came to health care and disease’s.
Gave lots of money to colleges and suffering country’s that needed money for medicine.(“Gates, William Henry III (1955)-).” Encyclopedia of World Biology. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Academic OneFile. Web. 5 May 2014.
Always helping people and trying to make everybody heal...

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...ro because he helped tons of people on computers and making them better. I will always think that Bill Gates is one of the best hero’s on this planet. He strived for making sure humanity was at its best and nobody was suffering. Even though he can’t help everybody he still is trying to make the world a healthier place all around.

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Lockwood, Brad. Bill Gates: Profile of a Digital Entrepreneur. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2008. Print.
“Gates, Bill.” Britannica Biographies (2012): 1. Middle Search Plus. Web. 16 May 2014.
“Gates, William Henry, III (1955-). “ Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Academic OneFile. Web. 5 May 2014.
"Bill Gates." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition (2013): 1. Middle Search Plus. Web. 22 May 2014.

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