My Friend Steve

1.Steve Jobs by walter isaacson is basically about the biography of Steve Paul Jobs’ life from before he was born to until he died. When people ask others who is Steve Jobs? then most people immediately answer that he is a one of the innovative leaders in 21th century who operate the company called Apple. Steve Jobs was born on February 22th, 1955, in San Francisco. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. His father, Paul Jobs, was a machinist who taught Steve basic technologies during the mid…

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 his…

just age 13, he was given a job for the summer working at Hewlett-Packard. In 1967, Jobs met Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak became very close friends. He later attended Reed College and then dropped out in his first semester because he didn't want to spend so much of his 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,…

Homesickness remains an exceedingly real problem among first time college students, although several students tend to hide it. “Although international students also experienced homesickness and loneliness due to missing their family, friends, and home country, they reported higher levels of homesickness than their U.S. counterparts and that homesickness was likely to increase their adjustment problems in the new environment” (Baba and Hosoda). The whole point of traveling to a new country…

were 14 then. Skylar wasn 't what you would call popular, but she was friends with everyone. Or so it seemed. She had a loud personality, but somehow was never obnoxious. That’s what surprised me about her. If anything I was amazed. About a month into the school year everything seemed as…

happen twice. It was like any other Monday, October 18th. The wind whistled outside and the colorful leaves covered the ground like a blanket. I went into school and made my way through the old building climbing the small set of stairs and making my way up the small ramp in the damp dark hallway that lead to the trailer that held my homeroom. The day started out in Mrs.…

Chapter 1- Introduction A book writer to be successful tries to limit his (based on a made-up idea) activity to the narrow edges/borders of an area or a limited circumference of his chosen place which, as a matter of fact, becomes his (based on a made-up idea) world. A novel is generally expected to be the presentation not only of men, their manners, mental activities and social matters including customs and traditions but also of the (related to where mountains, rivers, cities, etc., are…

experience. Before I was born, there was a civil war broke out in Somalia; my parents home country, we fled to a refugee camp situated in Dadaab, Kenya. Once safe, the struggle with nature began. Four kids out of eight survived past the age of three. I was the third to survive, breaking the cycle. Shortages in food led to malnutrition and we found ourselves eating spoiled food to survive. Shortages in medical supplies led my entire family to suffer from diseases like malaria. Then we were in a…

A new genre of movies seems to have taken over the box office in the past couple of years. Romance Dramedies are a smashing hit because they can incorporate most things we Americans strive for or experience daily into one movie. Romance, laughter, a journey, some hardships, and connecting. A film released in 2015 defined as a romance dramedy, yet the directors decided to push the boundaries and make it bigger than a typical romance comedy. This movie was quickly glossed over and thrown to the…

In the midst of one of the biggest storms of their trip; cold, wet, hungry, and scared, were the prevailing feelings of the group, yet spirits remained high as it was set to be their last. It had been a long, hard journey, but even a tempest this ferocious could not dampen their morale. With their new lives set to begin so soon, nothing could get in their way now. … The sky as black as ink and the rain pouring in torrents, nineteen-year-old Nala, hunched over in the middle of the boat trying…