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Paul Reinhold Jobs grew up on a dairy farm, however his father was an alcoholic and abusive at times. He had a calm and gentle personality. He had dropped out of high school and was mustered out of Coast Guard after World War II. Once he finished with that he made a bet with his friends that he would be able to find a wife in the next two weeks. He won that bet and got engaged to Clara Hagopian. Clara had a husband before but he was killed in war, so when she met Paul she wanted to start a new…

Video Gamings Video games can teach us many things, since many games today are multi-player online they can help your social skills. They can help you think new ways to solve problems for example say you are stuck in a certain level in the game it will have you thinking different way to beat, and playing video games could even make you a living, some Youtubers don’t have jobs but they make their living by playing video games same with game testers, pro gaming teams or MLG teams, and even the…

Steve Jobs was truly an extraordinary person. He invented so many things that people could not live without today, such as the Macintosh, iPhone, and iPod, and has changed the world with his genius. Jobs revolutionized the smartphone industry, the animation industry, and everyday computers. He had his fair share of problems in life, and definitely deserved his position in Apple. This paper will be talking about how Apple started, his personal life, and his overall impact on technology today. It…

As the music industry, the video game industry is also very unstable. Names like Atari to Nintendo to Sega to Sony to Microsoft are either extremely known or completely unknown depending to which generation is being spoken of. In the first five years of the 80s or better yet what was known as the golden age of video games, the market was dominated by Atari, Sega, Nintendo, Mattel, and Coleco then were dethroned by NES after the 1984 video game industry crash. The battle…

Winston Wu Mr. Axtell English Essay 9 December 2014 A Bite of the Apple “If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?” Those are the words of Steve Jobs; a mastermind, believer, billionaire, and one who shaped one of the greatest company of all-time, Apple. With over four hundred stores open worldwide, Apple Computer Incorporated, currently dominates the technological industry with Mac, iPhones, and iPad sales. The brilliant minds of Steve Jobs…

Falwell condemned homosexuality as forbidden by the Bible. Gay rights groups called Falwell an "agent of intolerance" and "the founder of the anti-gay industry" for statements he had made and for campaigning against LGBT rights. When comedian and actress Ellen DeGeneras came out as a lesbian, Falwell referred to her in a sermon as "Ellen DeGenerate". DeGeneres mocked him, saying, "Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since the fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I…

would consider myself lower middle class. My dad was the main provider in the family. My mom only worked to get out of the house. We had enough to eat. We had cable television, a small house; not enough bedrooms, not enough bathrooms. We had an Atari 2600. My richer friends had Intellivision or ColecoVision. We had the Commodore 64, and when I grew up my brother gave me his old Zenith PC. Mainly we had what we needed even though we never had enough personal space. One thing that reminds…

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955 and died October 5, 2011. Steve was born to two college students and was put up for adoption. He was then adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. It was Paul who had first encouraged Steve to experiment with electronics. He attended a school in California and later went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. During his school years he had great test results and qa lot of potential. Although all of the above is true, his teachers said he was not an easy student to…

The development of the personal computer came after nearly thirty years of small components being innovated, beginning with humans need to develop a mechanical device that could do arithmetic. Personal computing began to actually become more of a reality in the early 1970’s, due to the invention of the microprocessor in 1971. The Intel 4004 contained many crucial components of the computer, from the CPU to the input and output controls into one miniscule silicon chip (Computer History Museum).…

While attending the University of California in Berkeley he was introduced to Steve Jobs through a mutual friend. They became friends while working at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where Wozniak was working on a mainframe computer. Steve Jobs worked for Atari in 1973 creating a circuit board for the arcade game Breakout. Jobs had little knowledge of designing circuit boards so he made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee…