Steve Jobs Research Paper

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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 teach.

Steve becoming more aware of business and life
In 1974 Daniel Kottke and Jobs took a trip to India for spiritual enlightenment.
During his months there he became acknowledged of Buddhist and Eastern philosophy.
He also became involved with
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This was a big milestone in home computing.
Jobs and other co-workers in Apple had friction and after Jobs resigned he said getting fired was the best thing that happened to him.

Steves life without Apple
After Jobs left Apple, he founded NeXT computers but there were never a big hit until Apple bought NeXT computers for 429 million dollars and used it as a framework for WebObjects.
Much more fortunate was Steves inroad into Pixar. Movies like Monsters Inc., Ratatouille, etc. were very successful thus giving Steve respect and prosperity.
The Buying of NeXT in 1996 brought Steve back to Apple. While there he was the chief executive. Also Apple had fallen behind and was not getting a lot of money

Steve was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and he began to struggle with health problems over the next few years. Jobs underwent a liver transplant in 2009 but things got worse. He had to resign in 2011 and died in October due his health issues and pancreatic cancer.

His birth mother and her mom had the same name (first and last). His birth dad and his birth moms dad had the same name (first and last).He was a good husband and a father of four children (Reed Jobs, Eve Jobs, Erin Siena Jobs, and Lisa

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