STARTING POINT: Steve Jobs‚ Synchronicity‚ Connecting the Dots & Trust Answer these questions before you watch the video: a) How do you think we can achieve success in life? b) Do you consider academic life the best way for a promising future? c) “We learn when we fail” Comment on this sentence. ORAL DISCUSSION Question #1. How has chance played a role in your very existence? When you ponder this question you literally become free. I’m sure you recognize you had no responsibility in the matter
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Colombia Philology and Languages: English Written Communication IV August 20 – 2010 Steve Jobs Commencement Speech’s Review. “I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told‚ I never graduated from college‚ and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today‚ I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.” With these humble words‚ an American magnate and inventor
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Steve Jobs Speech Evaluation This speech that Steve Jobs gave to a group of college graduates was a very informative speech. You know that this speech is an informative one because he talks about three stories about his life‚ which in turn informs the class about three things that they should take through life. He is not trying to persuade the audience to do or buy anything he is talking about. I believe that his main purposes were clearly stated at the beginning of each story. The purpose all
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of the famous speech was presented in a rhetorical manner in which it associated with the people and has lasted through time. Steve jobs is successful even though he is not a college graduate‚ and has an unstable beginning to his life. He uses background to play upon his rhetorical strategies in his Stanford commencement address. With his knowledge of his audience‚ Steve Jobs creatively tells three stories that are filled with ethos that build his credibility and pathos that evoke emotion in his audience
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that my life would have been altered so drastically that Tuesday morning. When I entered my English class we were 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
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The Five Factor Personality questionnaire is a test based on the Five Factor Model of personality that helps an individual identify where they fall on the personality scale. The five traits this questionnaire uses are extraversion‚ agreeableness‚ conscientiousness‚ neuroticism‚ and openness. The first trait is extraversion‚ which focuses mainly on social situations. On this section I scored a 24‚ which is considered relatively low. This score indicates that I would be considered an introvert‚ meaning
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WRC 1013 22 September 2013 Compare/Contrast: Steve Jobs & Bill Gates Steve Jobs (born in Green Bay‚ Wisconsin on the 24th of February 1955) is best known as the co-founder & CEO of Apple Computer and somewhat less so for his leadership of Pixar which is a computer animation studio. On the other hand‚ Bill Gates (born in Seattle‚ Washington on the 28th of October 1955) is known for the creation of the Windows operating system‚ as well as being the co-founder and current Chairman and Chief Software
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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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In this address‚ Steve Jobs gives us his view on life and how life as we know can be taken for granted. Life in reality shouldn’t because tomorrow’s not promised and we’re all going to die eventually. This mentality helps job make important decisions in life which keep him from having the fear of failure or embarrassment because he doesn’t want to waste his life doing something that he truly doesn’t love. Jobs also gives his perspective on how it feels to be told you only have a few months to live
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Therefore‚ the Hofstede’s Five Dimensions of Culture that will be used to evaluate Thailand are power distance‚ individualism or collectivism‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ masculinity or femininity and long-term or short-term orientation. • Power distance – is a dimension that indicates how the society feels about the inequalities among them. "Since Thais are supportive of hierarchies and revere every
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