Oliver Wu was an old man who died peacefully on March 20, 2108. The remaining members of his family were his sister, wife, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and his 13 grandchildren. His parents had died a few decades ago, but sadly, because he had very important work, he never heard about it, so he did not go to his parents’ funerals. Oliver was born and raised in Fremont, California. He attended Fred E. Weibel Elementary, where he is remembered as a chess champion. Throughout elementary school, Oliver won many chess awards and was in fact the best and highest rated chess player from third grade to sixth grade. He won a number of state championships and other tournaments. In fact, when he was just 9 years old, he won the Kirshner …show more content…
Cup and received a crystal trophy! He excelled in math and was in all of the accelerated courses. In high school, he took AP Statistics and AP Calculus BC. He was second only to his good friend, Princeton Liu. From the end of 2024 to the beginning of 2029, he went to MIT and graduated at the top of his class in all subjects.
He continued to stay at MIT until the year of 2035, in which he graduated with a PHD in Applied Math and Computer Science. In the summer of 2035, when he was 31, he went to his good friend, Princeton’s, funeral. For Princeton’s obituary, you can go to www.greatmathematicians.com/obituaries/Princeton_Liu. With that obstacle removed, the way was clear for Oliver to be a famous mathematician. But, Oliver became tired of mathematics, so he started playing chess again. For two years, he played many chess tournaments and won most of them. He even won both of the Millionaire Chess Tournaments within those two years (Top Prize is $100,000)! On the third year that he started playing chess again, he qualified for the World Championship because he had won the Candidates Tournament. To his great surprise, his childhood friend, Louis Law, was World …show more content…
Champion! In fact, Louis had been world champion for 8 years, ever since he had graduated from his college. Oliver challenged Louis for the title of World Champion, but lost by a margin of 1 point, 11-10, mainly due to the fact that he was still a little bit rusty: Louis had been playing for 8 years, whereas Oliver had only been playing 2¼ years. Throughout the year, after he had challenged Louis for the title of World Champion, he played many chess tournaments and practiced much more. In that third year, Oliver won the Millionaire Chess Tournament for the 3rd time in the row. The next year, Oliver once again won the Candidates Tournament and challenged Louis for the title of World Champion. This time, since Oliver was no longer rusty, he completely crushed Louis, 13-8. For the next 6 years, Oliver made hundreds of millions of dollars by winning chess tournaments and endorsing products. When he was 41, he met a woman called Jennifer, who happened to also be a person whom he had known while growing up, and after a few months, and they were happily married. After they were married, he decided to quit chess, as it had been too time-consuming. He decided to go back to math and programming after leaving it for so long. Oliver, after he quit chess, immediately applied for a high-paying, high-ranking job in a technology company. Oliver was immediately accepted because the boss knew that he was terrific at programming and math. For the next 14 years, from when he was 42 to when he was 55, he worked at the company and made a lot of money. At the age of 55, Oliver thought that working at such a company was becoming tiring and stressful, and since he was already a billionaire at this point, he quit his job. After Oliver had quit his job, and right before he was about to retire, he ran into an old friend, Jonathan.
Jonathan, a childhood friend, who had a PHD in Automotive Engineering, was looking for a good job. Oliver, who wanted to help Jonathan, teamed up with him and started a manufacturing company. Oliver wanted to conserve the company’s money, so Oliver only hired 20 people. The 20 people that he hired, though, were the best in the world at designing and manufacturing cars. He hired 10 people to work with him to program the design the computer within the car, and he hired 10 people to work with Jonathan to design the motor, outside design, and all of the other parts of the car. Within just 1 year, their company had produced the first hovercar! The hovercar was a great success, and after manufacturing for just 1 more year, Oliver’s company had made tens of
millions! Throughout the next 25 years, Oliver and his company continued to manufacture better and more complex hovercars. At the end of 25 years, when he was 80, he was an ultra-rich billionaire. Oliver was becoming old and wanted to retire, and since he knew that he was the main reason that the company held (his uncomparable math and programming skills), he decided to shut down the company when he retired. Since Oliver was a very rich and generous person, he decided to, as a parting gift for 26 years of faithful working, gave everyone else (21 people) each $1,000,000!! Even after giving away a total of 21 million dollars, Oliver was still a multi-billionaire. From the age of 80 to when he died, he lived in a moderate home with his wife. He never wanted a mansion because he wanted to just settle down when he retired, not be the center of attention by being in a mansion. The funeral will be held at the Chapel of the Angels, which is 40842 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, California, 94359 on May 11, 2108.
The United States gives Columbus a national holiday, Zheng He should deserve a national holiday as well. He was kidnapped at the age of ten by the Ming Dynasty, and had to watch as his father died. He was taken prisoner and became an eunuch who eventually rose to power. The Emperor Yongle rewarded his loyalty by electing him as the fleet commander and eventually went on 7 voyages all around Asia, India, and eastern Africa in the next 28 years. Using the measuring sticks of scale/size, significance, and skill, should we commemorate the voyages of Zheng He? We should recognize the voyages of Zheng He for the 3 major reasons, the incredible distances/destinations traveled, the amazing size/scale of the ships, and the honorary purpose of many of the expeditions.
Shi Huangdi now able to unite the warring states, explored ways to establish a stable, and long lasting dynasty. The improvements he made to a now unified China, changed they way the world looked upon the country.
The Death of Woman Wang, by Jonathan Spence is an educational historical novel of northeastern China during the seventeenth century. The author's focus was to enlighten a reader on the Chinese people, culture, and traditions. Spence's use of the provoking stories of the Chinese county T'an-ch'eng, in the province of Shantung, brings the reader directly into the course of Chinese history. The use of the sources available to Spence, such as the Local History of T'an-ch'eng, the scholar-official Huang Liu-hung's handbook and stories of the writer P'u Sung-Ling convey the reader directly into the lives of poor farmers, their workers and wives. The intriguing structure of The Death of Woman Wang consists on observing these people working on the land, their family structure, and their local conflicts.
Smarr, Janet. “Emperor Wu”. Making of the Modern World 12. Ledden Auditorium, La Jolla, CA. 17 Feb. 2012. Lecture.
Ah Xian born in Beijing in 1960 left china following the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, also known as tank man incident, and moved to Sydney Australia. Having moved from his native country, Ah Xian wanted his work to represent that “cultural identity is permanent and no matter what other places and influences one
Mao Zedong was a very influential man in history. He forever changed the face of Chinese politics and life as a whole. His communist views and efforts to modernize China still resonate in the country today. Jonathan Spence’s book titled Mao Zedong is a biography of the great Chinese leader. Spence aims to show how Mao evolved from a poor child in a small rural village, to the leader of a communist nation. The biography is an amazing story of a person’s self determination and the predictability of human nature. The book depicts how a persuasive voice can shape the minds of millions and of people. It also shows the power and strength that a movement in history can make. This biography tells an important part of world history-the communist takeover of China.
Henry Ford wanted to build a high-quality automobile that would be affordable to everyday people. He believed the way to do this was to manufacture one model in huge quantities. Henry Ford searched the world for the best materials he could find at the cheapest cost. During a car race in Florida , Ford examined the wreckage of a French car and noticed that many of its parts were made of a metal that was lighter but stronger than what was being used in American cars. No one in the U.S. knew how to make this French steel a vanadium alloy. As part of the preproduction process for the Model T, Ford imported an expert who helped him build a steel mill. As a result, the only cars in the world to utilize vanadium steel in the next five years would be French luxury cars and the Model T. Ford realizes he needs another efficient way to produce the cars in lower prices. Ford saw what he was missing was 4 principles that would help with the Model T which was interchangeable parts, continuous flow, division of labor, and reducing wasted
The audiences seems to recognize the “The Match of the Century” where the best American-born chess player, Bobby Fischer, compete against the best Russian-born chess player, Boris Spassky, resembles World War II, where people risk their lives to fight for their nation. Bobby Fischer Goes to War, a nonfiction story by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, is about Bobby, who is put to a challenge of competing against Boris Spassky, and will face many challenges throughout the story.The two legends were impossible to be cornered, but soon the world will know who really the champion of the world is. The most extraordinary chess match of all-time will be assembled in Yugoslavia. Who will win the world chess championship? The meaning of Bobby Fischer Goes to War is determination which is presented through Bobby Fischer’s
Meryl Davids is a professional writer/editor with an education from the University of Pennsylvania. With an outstanding twenty plus years of experience under her belt, Davids has work featured in magzines and journals such as: U.S. News & World Report, Wall Street Journal, and The Journal of Business Strategy. In this article Davids brings to our attention the successfulness of Henry Ford as well as the some of the struggles he faced trough out his life. Davids lets us know right from the start that Ford was a smart man and he knew that time was money. Ford states, “Time loves to be wasted.” The solution to this was a large-scale assembly line. With the successfulness of the assembly line and the money Ford was saving he double the wages of his employees from $2.50 to $5 overnight as
...h he forgot it for many months together, when spring came each year he must go out on to the land." (Chapter 34, pg. 257) Wang Lung was not aware of his son's interest in selling the land though, and thus died contently. He wished he had done things differently with O-lan and probably would have been happier if he was still a pheasant but we all wish there were things we could have done differently. To Wang Lung the earth was good. He never saw the ending picture and how his faith in the earth wouldn't carry on because of his money hungry sons, but his love for the land ended with him, and peace in his heart.
... emerge. After he died, his group of disciples spread to various states finding employment in either government or education. They became instrumental in the new government and their ideas would remain in China, and Chinese policies until this day.30
Henry Ford was the pioneer of the American automobile industry. He was born in 1863 near Dearborn, Michigan. Forty years later he started Ford Motor Company with the help of Thomas Edison. In 1908, Henry Ford forever changed the world with his Model T. Ford was known as a revolutionary person for not only making the automobile inexpensive but also for teaching workers proper skills and paying them steady wages. (Henry Ford Bio, 1) Only a mere six years later, Ford changed the world again with his invention of the moving assembly line in 1914. With the modern assembly line he was now able to mass produce his Model T. Nearly everything mass produced in the world is assembled on an assembly line thanks to Ford’s 100 year old idea. Not only did Ford make life easier for civilians by giving them affordable access to
on October of 1908 Henry Ford proclaimed “...I will build a motor car for the great multitude...,” (Steven C. Stanford). To Ford, this meant that an average American worker would be able to afford the automobile, with no need of a chauffeur conversant to its mechanics. Although many believed, that the idea of an Average american, being able to afford and operate an automobile was absurd, Ford was determined to provide for the “...great multitude…”.Out of this determination, Ford developed the Model T, and the assembly line. Two innovations that “...Revolutionized American Society and Modeled the world we live in today…-Charles, E. “...My Forty Years with Ford…” (1956);
“Thus in arithmetic, during the few months that he studied it, he made such progress that he frequently confounded his master by continually raising doubts and difficulties. He devoted some time to music … Yet though he studied so many different things, he never neglected design and working in relief, those being the things which appealed to his fancy more than any other.”
...ope and eventually went to America with his wife and two daughters, but instead of composing he focused on being a pianist. He stayed there for the rest of his life, dying at the age of seventy from cancer, but not before becoming an American citizen, which he was able to do just five weeks before he died.