Steve Jobs‚ the late founder of Apple and Pixar‚ could captivate an audience when he spoke; his address to the graduates of Stanford’s 2005 class was no different. Jobs’s commencement address covered concepts ranging from love‚ to fate‚ to death‚ all of which were conveyed through three stories. The three stories’ overarching topic was that of happily living life by your own playbook. Jobs’s first allegory talked about fate and how everything happens for a reason; the second dealt with doing what
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STEVE JOBS ABDULLAH AZZAM Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24‚ 1955‚ to a pair of graduate students who gave him up for adoption because their parents did not want them to marry. Steve was adopted at birth by Clara and Paul Jobs. His mother taught him to read before he went to school. Steve and his father would work on electronics in the family garage‚ taking apart and reassembling televisions‚ radios and stereos. Steve was quite a turbulent child. He really didn’t care about school for
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common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other”-Tom Robbins. In this paper we will compare and contrast commencement addresses delivered by two of the greatest technological entrepreneurs of this generation‚ Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) and Steve Jobs (founder of Apple)‚ at Harvard(2007) and Stanford(2005) respectively. By analyzing texture of speech and choice of content‚ we will observe that though the speakers are nearly identical in age‚ choice of career and professional
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“Death is the destination we all share.” While a somber statement‚ the words came from a commencement speech that Steve Jobs‚ CEO of Apple and Pixar Animation‚ gave to Stanford University’s Class of 2005 this Tuesday. In his speech‚ Jobs shared “three stories”‚ anecdotes of being adopted‚ fired‚ and diagnosed with cancer‚ among others‚ to approach themes of life‚ death‚ love‚ and the future. The first detailed his adoption and early college education‚ the second‚ his being fired from Apple in
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Jobs’ Job The Excellence of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs displays arête in many ways‚ for one‚ being the most prolific icon in the tech industry‚ and two‚ for becoming so while fighting a terminal cancer. Steve Jobs was born on February 24th‚ 1955‚ in San Francisco‚ and was put into adoption. He went to high school in Cupertino‚ California‚ which is not the headquarters of Job’s billion-dollar corporation‚ Apple. While Jobs was in Cupertino‚ he attended after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard
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Steve Jobs 1955-2011 Chapter 1 Steve Jobs- 1955-2011 An era ends: Steve Jobs‚ rebel icon and merchant of cool‚ is dead Steve Jobs‚ innovator extraordinaire‚ who started up Apple Inc in a Silicon Valley garage and built it up into the world’s most innovative company‚ died on Wednesday. He was 56. Apple said in a brief statement: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.” (Read Apple’s statement here.) “Steve’s brilliance‚ passion and energy were the source
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assigned a task to analyze a speech‚ not my favorite writing exercise. A paper titled‚ Stanford University Commencing Speech 2005 by Steve Jobs was placed on each desk. The name rang a bell‚ I knew of his connections with Apple and squabbles with supposed rival Bill Gates but nothing else. Ignorance always led me to think that millionaires like him either had very rich parents‚ attended one of the best colleges or were some enhanced being. My prospects for this speech of being entertaining were not
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Steve Jobs: Innovator The 7 insanely different principles of Jobs’ breakthrough success with Apple Carmine Gallo Columnist‚ BusinessWeek.com INTRODUCTION Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be remembered as one of a handful of history’s most elite innovators. He was the classic American entrepreneur — starting his company in the spare bedroom of his parents’ house and pioneering the development of the first personal computer for everyday use. This was a man who was fired from the company he
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Paul Jobs (Steve Jobs) was born on February 24 in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. In the same year‚ Steve Jobs was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. As a boy‚ he and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show Steve how to take apart and rebuild electronics‚ a hobby which inspired coolness‚ firmness‚ and mechanical abilities in Steve. In elementary
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Marina Szabo Professor Dana Kerrigan English 15 March 19‚2012 Steve Jobs Everyone is unique on this plant. We share the air and shine to live but we all do things in our own ways. Some people don’t do anything with their lives and others do great things with theirs. One particular person that has done great things with his life is Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs wasn’t some original person‚ he was a creative‚ crazy‚ rebellion‚ and over all a life changing person that wanted to make a difference
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