1.- Someone who has impacted me individually
Rebecca Lopez
My aunt Rebecca is a nun, she is one of the most important persons who, still to this day, has impacted my life. I remember her as my favorite aunt because when I was little she would look up for me and my brothers. She is my Dad’s sister and since she is a nun she will talked to my Dad about the importance of going to school because at one point my Dad dint care much about me and my brothers going to school. She is one of the reasons I went to catholic schools and continue my education to high school.
When I was growing up my aunt Rebecca will visit us for holidays and summer vacations and I remember how happy I will be to see her because she will take me to do her errands and I will be out of the house all day with my Dads approval. My aunt is a teacher, mostly, for elementary school and often she will help me to spell and talk correctly. She will take me to church every day she was in town. We will talked about life and she will give me her expertise advice.
Her Mon die when she was little just like it happen to me so that always make her empathetic towards me and my brothers. She will come with presents, my favorite presents from when I was a little girl came from her, have her close to me will always make me fill well and confident.
For my high school years I went out of town to a catholic school thanks to my aunt and she was the only one who visited me in 3 years I stayed in the dorms, she will call me and provided me with personal supplies, she guided me for most of my life. I love her.
2.- Someone who has impacted many people
Louis Hay
Louise Hay is also known as one of the founders of the self-help movement. Her first book, Heal your body, was published in 1976, long before it was fashionable to discuss the connection between the mind and body. Revised and expanded in 1988, this best-selling book introduced Louise’s concepts to people in 33 different countries and has been translated into 25 languages throughout the world.
Through Louise’s healing techniques and positive philosophy, millions have learned how to create more of what they want in their lives, including more wellness in their bodies, minds, and spirits. Her own personal philosophy was forged from her tormented upbringing. Her childhood was unstable and impoverished, and her teen years were marked by abuse. Louise ran away from home and ended up in New York City, where she became a model and married a prosperous businessman. Although it appeared that her life had turned around, it was not until the marriage ended 14 years later that her healing really began.
Louise started Hay House Inc., a successful publishing company. What began as a small venture in the living room of her home has turned into a prosperous corporation that has sold millions of books and products worldwide. Hay House authors include many notables in the self-help movement, including Dr. Wayne Dyer, Joan Borysenko, Dr. Christiane Northrup, and Doreen Virtue, among others. In addition, The Hay Foundations is a non-profit organization established by Louise that encourages and financially supports diverse organizations that supply food, shelter, counseling, hospice care and money to those with AIDS, battered women and other crises. The foundation will continue the good work that Louise began over 30 years ago.
3.- Someone who has impacted a large group of people
Bill Gates
Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-counting systems to local governments. In 1975 Gates, then a sophomore at Harvard University, joined his hometown friend Paul G. Allen to develop software for the first microcomputers. They began by adapting BASIC, a popular programming language used on large computers, for use on microcomputers. With the success of this project, Gates left Harvard during his junior year and, with Allen, formed Microsoft. Gates’s sway over the infant microcomputer industry greatly increased when Microsoft licensed an operating system called MS-DOS to International Business Machines Corporation then the world’s biggest computer supplier and industry pacesetter for use on its first microcomputer, the IBM PC (personal computer). After the machine’s release in 1981, IBM quickly set the technical standard for the PC industry, and MS-DOS likewise pushed out competing operating systems. While Microsoft’s independence strained relations with IBM, Gates deftly manipulated the larger company so that it became permanently dependent on him for crucial software. Makers of IBM-compatible PCs, or clones, also turned to Microsoft for their basic software. By the start of the 1990s he had become the PC industry’s ultimate kingmaker.
Largely on the strength of Microsoft’s success, Gates amassed a huge paper fortune as the company’s largest individual shareholder. He became a paper billionaire in 1986, and within a decade his net worth had reached into the tens of billions of dollars—making him by some estimates the world’s richest private individual. With few interests beyond software and the potential of information technology, Gates at first preferred to stay out of the public eye, handling civic and philanthropic affairs indirectly through one of his foundations.
Facts:
- The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and is working with Rotary International to eliminate polio.
- Gates has sold or given away much of his stake in Microsoft — he owns just over 1% of shares –and invested in a mix of stocks and other assets.
- He remains a board member of Microsoft, the software firm he founded with Paul Allen in 1975.
- In late 2016, Gates announced the launch of a $1 billion Breakthrough Energy investment fund with about 20 other people.
- To date, Gates has donated $35.8 billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Gates Foundation.
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