Steve Jobs Pathos

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In Steve Jobs, ceo of apple and pixar, commencement address to the Stanford class of 2005, he attempts to inspire them to always follow their dreams. Jobs goes on to give three stories about his life. In one of the stories, he explains how he dropped out of college. Jobs goes on to explain how this allowed him to take a calligraphy class, leading to the developing fonts for Apple’s Mac. Job states “ Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very clear looking backwards 10 years later.”This quote shows how he was trying to inspire students to not give up on their dreams, no matter how hard their life is at that moment.”

Steve jobs uses pathos to persuade stanford graduates to follow

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