Apple II series

If I told you that an African American single parent in the 1980s went from homeless to opening his own investment firm you’d probably think I was teasing. However, that is exactly what transpired to Chris Gardner as so brilliantly depicted in the film The Pursuit of Hapyness. In this film, based on a true story, Chris Gardner who is played by actor Will Smith, is a very bright self employed marginal salesman in San Francisco who invested in 40-pound bone density scanners to try and profit and…

Unfolding over a total of nine chapters in two components, in additament to a prologue and epilogue, Outliers commences with a visual examination of outliers, defined by Gladwell as extraordinary people who are on the far reaches of achievement and defy the odds. The book commences by observing that a disproportionate number of elite Canadian hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year. Because youth hockey leagues determine eligibility by calendar year, the older kids…

parent's money. He then went through a hippie like experience, doing drugs like marijuana and LSD. Then, in 1977, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, formally created the company Apple. That same year they unveiled the Apple II, which became a huge success. This made job very rich at a very young age. In 1985 he resigned from Apple saying that he had no more work to do. In 1986, he spent $7 million on his new computer company, NeXT, and spent $5 million to purchase the now famous…

Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950 to Margaret Elaine and Jerry Francis Wozniak. He is Ukrainian and Swiss-German on his father’s side, and German, Irish, and English on his mother’s side. Steve Wozniak is best known as one of the Steve’s that founded Apple Inc. Wozniak was fascinated with electronics at an early age. 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…

This essay is concerned with and analysis of the speech given by Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple, at Stanford University in 2005. The speech is often cited as a textbook example of a motivational public address, having been reproduced on the internet as both text and video formats, and commented upon in many newspaper and news sites. Throughout the essay, I will be focusing on the techniques Jobs used to ensure that his audience were both entertained and inspired. He used a variety of…

Ben Bosma’s reputation as a renaissance man is substantiated by a simple Google search of his name. While this doesn’t necessarily surprise me in the least, what does surprise me is the number of achievements that Ben has been able to amass throughout his life that was revealed by the search. It was determined that Ben had an illustrious career as a United States Air Force pilot. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1975 with degrees in aeronautical, astronomical, and mechanical…

16. The Benefits of Exercise I recently met a woman who claimed that she didn’t want to exercise because she feared losing her curves. That’s one of the craziest and laziest statement I’ve ever heard. Exercising will not make you look less attractive nor will it cause you to lose your curves. I know plenty of thick women who exercise and still maintain their curvy physique. So ladies, don’t worry about getting your curvy card revoked. Besides, being healthy and exercising will prolong your life…

not much in the way of a healthy drink and a lot in the way of unnecessary fructose. Let’s take a look at exactly what’s in a McDonald’s ‘real’ fruit smoothie: Strawberry Banana Fruit Blend Strawberry puree, banana puree, water, sugar, concentrated apple juice, contains less than 1% of the following: Cellulose powder, natural (botanical source) and artificial flavors, xanthan gum, citric acid, colored with fruit and vegetable juice, pectin. They also add ice and low-fat yogurt for good measure.…

being cultivated in a single area. Monocultures have become the norm in the United States and many other parts of the world. At the start of this semester I did not think having a lot of one single crop was a bad idea. Having a few types of delicious apples and the same bananas at the store every day made me feel comfortable. I knew exactly what I was getting every time I went to the store. No mass difference between types of fruits and vegetables was found. I was ok with this standard. However,…

his assertion, Heymann cites a series of examples that illustrate the modern architects’ tendency to retrospectively connect landscape to design as a strategy to sell abstracted architecture. Whilst the examples do provide weight to this assertion, it is the omissions that make the reasoning for this conclusion tenuous. Consider the logic – fruit is red; apples are fruit; therefore apples are red. After showing a series of red apples, one must conclude that apples are red. However, the argument…