“Steve Jobs’ Commencement Speech”
Steve Jobs is an entrepreneur who has paved the path for his own success. He has revolutionized technology and the way people currently use, or even view it through a modern lens. Steve Jobs comes from humble beginnings where money was never the focus of his life, yet it was foretold that he would have college paid for in order to achieve greater pay. When a student reads his commencement speech, he appears to have the well-being of the students’ in mind. College students’ want the ability to research the topics they want and take the classes they have the best interest or can gain the most from. Steve’s purpose is to persuade the audience to better understand life and the way they think they view it; he does …show more content…
Steve Jobs uses his real life events as the basis for the evidence in what he states. He is using factual information about his life and coming up to be what he is currently to present it in an accurate way. The “evidence” ranges from giving information about how he was raised by his parents to being fired from his job at Apple, as he mentioned “ We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.” Discussing these things tends to get his point across to the bigger picture of what he is trying to say to not only the students at Stanford, but to a young generation across the …show more content…
It gives people a glimpse of his life in a brief article. But moreover it gives a lesson as to how he came to be a CEO of a major company. Jobs’ provided great insight as to how people can self-reflect and even improve on themselves in a simple way that could have much greater results. When mentioning getting fired from Apple, he was able to pursue other interests. He was talking about job paths and career choice when he said “Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” He points out the impending mortality that we all have in common and to never forget that. The more that death is a factor to the individual, the more they can treat each day as if it were their last. As Jobs quoted from another unnamed source “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” His final statement to the graduates of Stanford wrap up his speech “Stay hungry. Stay
Steve Jobs is an entrepreneur who has paved the path for his own success. He has revolutionized technology and the way people currently use, or even view it through a modern lens. Steve Jobs comes from humble beginnings where money was never the focus of his life, yet it was foretold that he would have college paid for in order to achieve greater pay. When a student reads his commencement speech, he appears to have the well-being of the students’ in mind. College students’ want the ability to research the topics they want and take the classes they have the best interest or can gain the most from. Steve’s purpose is to persuade the audience to better understand life and the way they think they view it; he does …show more content…
Steve Jobs uses his real life events as the basis for the evidence in what he states. He is using factual information about his life and coming up to be what he is currently to present it in an accurate way. The “evidence” ranges from giving information about how he was raised by his parents to being fired from his job at Apple, as he mentioned “ We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.” Discussing these things tends to get his point across to the bigger picture of what he is trying to say to not only the students at Stanford, but to a young generation across the …show more content…
It gives people a glimpse of his life in a brief article. But moreover it gives a lesson as to how he came to be a CEO of a major company. Jobs’ provided great insight as to how people can self-reflect and even improve on themselves in a simple way that could have much greater results. When mentioning getting fired from Apple, he was able to pursue other interests. He was talking about job paths and career choice when he said “Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” He points out the impending mortality that we all have in common and to never forget that. The more that death is a factor to the individual, the more they can treat each day as if it were their last. As Jobs quoted from another unnamed source “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” His final statement to the graduates of Stanford wrap up his speech “Stay hungry. Stay