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2005 on the day of graduation for the University of Standford students, Steve Jobs made a commencement speech titled How to Live Before You Die. This speech was compromised of three stories about Steve Jobs ' life. He used many different ways to catch his audience 's attention; he used humor and his life experiences. In his speech, he said that he and Steve Wozniak made the first Apple computer in a garage. Steve Jobs had to sell his car and Steve Wozniak had to sell his Hp calculator. Month…

First, Steve Jobs achieved his personal dreams through commitment. In addition, passion drove Ashton Eaton to winning gold medals in the olympics. Finally, determination is what led Derek Jeter to winning five world series. The American Dream can be difficult to achieve, but Michael Oher achieved it through hard work. The American Dream can be achieved through commitment, passion, and determination. Commitment is in fact a key factor to achieving the American Dream. For example, Steve Jobs was…

how hard they’ve worked and how much they deserved to be graduated. Steve Jobs, however, gave them an unorthodox bit of wisdom. He simplified his speech into three stories, all with different didactic representations. He speaks effectively by relying on his personal anecdotes, reputation, and logistical understanding of his past to appeal to his audience as well as grab their attention and keep them interested. First, Jobs speaks effectively and uses pathos of his anecdotes to grab the…

English Mrs. Van Gundy 4/24/2018 Steve Jobs Steve Jobs is one of the most influential figures in American history, whose ideas have reshaped not only the American society but the world at large. From inventing the Apple I computer to the iPhone's, Jobs has reinvented the way businesses do business while keeping to his core values. He also changed the way the world viewed technology and the amount of people with technology. Even after he passed away in 2011, Jobs’ has continued to transform…

also are more likely to avoid job dissatisfaction even when in situations they dislike because of their high emotional stability and self-esteem. People with negative core self-evaluations tend to blame other people for their problems. They are more likely to either do nothing to work toward change or act in unproductive, hostile ways towards the people they blame for their problems. (Noe, Hollenbeck and Gerhart) Negative affectivity is defined as pervasive low levels of satisfaction with all…

Oldham’s Job Characteristics Model (JCM) as well as the utilization of job re-design based off of these findings. The JCM was originally created as a means to offer different principles that can be implemented at an organization to enrich the workplace for those involved. The JCM is essentially a work questionnaire that uses the information found to create statistical data in order to show the perceived amount of job motivation in employees. The first theory proposed five different job…

it to a close. On June 12, 2005 Steve Jobs delivered a commencement speech at the University of Stanford and told three stories about his life to the graduating class, about connecting the dots, love and loss, and about death. Jobs was able to appeal to the emotion of the audience because he told of his adoption, dropout of college, owning two successful companies, falling in love and being diagnosed with cancer, all while leading a happy life. While Steve Jobs may have delivered a compelling…

Steve Jobs is a well respected man for his many achievements including founding the greatly successful company, Apple. If Steve Jobs were to walk into a room full of people today, he would have instantly gained the respect of every single person in the room. In order for a person to effectively lead a team or group he must first gain the respect of everyone on the team or group. If Jobs felt as if someone was not giving him the respect he deserved, that person usually no longer had a job at…

Over the course of this unit on biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs, I read Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, which is about Steven Paul Jobs, cofounder of Apple, Inc., Pixar, and NeXT Computers. Throughout the book, Schlender and Tetzeli write about Steve’s life, from his early college days to the final days of his life. The book contains information on Steve’s founding of Apple with Steve Wozniak, then his first tenure at Apple, his founding of Pixar and NeXT, and…

In a biographical, production film, “Steve Jobs,” directed by Danny Boyle, Steve Jobs purpose is to design an archetype PC specifically for the education market, but he encounters personal and professional obstacles in the process. The following film is arranged into three different scenarios from the time span of 1984 through 1998 diving into the career of a notable innovator and Apple Inc. co-founder, Steve Jobs. Correspondingly, each scene commences immediately prior to the launch of the…