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Final Persuasive Speech Reflection Believe me when I say that my progress from then to now has come a long way. Initially after giving the persuasive speech, I felt that there has been little process in all of this time that I had spent trying to learn to communicate more effectively. Worst of all perhaps, I felt powerless to do anything to change this. This was my most practiced speech and it did not feel that way. Even the thought of having to go back and essentially relive those 7 minutes…

Life Stories of Steve Jobs How do people know what path to take, what choices to make, and what career to pursue in their life. High school and college, for those that go, is meant to give guidance in what direction to go in life. Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple and Pixar, knows first-hand that this isn’t always the case however. In a commencement speech he gave to the graduating class of Stanford in 2005, Jobs constructed a brilliant collection of three stories that formed a cohesive…

In the 21st century, eating at a restaurant is more than simply enjoying a meal with family, friends, or co-workers. Millennials have brought extra guests to the table: their cell phones. Even before entering a restaurant, people outside are either frantically iMessaging their friends to find out why they are late or are researching the restaurant on Yelp to decide if it is worth their time and money. Once you enter the restaurant, people are waiting in line to order while checking their social…

In general, Accrual accounting in public sector provides better quality financial information, more comprehensive and increase efficiency. This allows a better way of discharging accountability by extending the assessment of financial performance beyond the application of cash and supports a better decision making by internal management by providing information on the full cost of operations and the resources used to deliver services to the public 1-Revenue and Expense Matching The most…

He again evokes pathos from the audience in two completely separate ways. Jobs’ explains his troubles during the beginning years of his creation of The Macintosh. An employee, hired to help him create the Apple computer, later fired him from the company, and his time and energy were taken from his instantly. These tribulations brought him to create Pixar Animation, NeXT, and to even meet his future wife.…

found that although relationships between specific trauma types and outcomes in adulthood are inconsistent, overall associations between childhood trauma and the development of borderline personality disorder are strong and consistently identified (MacIntosh, Godbout, & Dubash, 2015). Therefore, the fact that Ms. Saunders was sexually abused as a child could be a factor as to why she displays symptoms of borderline personality…

Some educators have seen the light. Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) has started an initiative to add Art education to STEM, thereby making STEAM. Some schools say the A is for Agriculture, but the trend is towards Art in STEM education. On the other hand, STEM, with or without liberal arts integrated, is not all that it’s cracked up to be. There are so many things that make a liberal arts education more important and beneficial than a STEM education. For example, liberal arts aren’t…

Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple Inc., and serves on Apple’s board of directors. He is considered the head of the most profitable business in America. After the retirement of Steve Jobs, Tim took over Apple Inc. in August of 2011 with a salary of 10.28million dollars and net worth of 785 million dollars. (“Tim Cook.” Biography.com) He has been acknowledged for a great deal of achievements that led up to his position in the Apple Inc. Tim Cook graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor's…

In the early part of America’s history, economic and racial inequality helped the colonizers gain a foothold from which they would grow the cotton industry from the ground up, and the ground that they would use belonged to the natives of this nation, and this helped keep the status quo of racial oppression which would be their theme for years to come. Meanwhile, racial and gender inequalities helped bring to light issues of the status quo, and provided important social commentary that would…

The Secret Of A Successful Job There is one of the most important ways to make your job better, and doing a special work. The way to do a successful job is to love what you do. Successful people love what they work on. For example: Steve Jobs is one of powerful people, he always says, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do”. In my own experience, I studied Computer Science for two years at University of Kuwait. Then, I worked at a petroleum company called KJO, which is one…