Palo Alto

Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was rejected at birth twice, a trouble maker during his whole school years, and didn’t complete college yet he changed the world of technology forever. Steve was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955. Steve’s biological parents were Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah John Jandali, but Joanne gave him up for adoption since she was looked down on being pregnant at a young age. Steve’s first adoptive family changed their mind when he was born, but luckly Clara…

The Mexican American War was the first war that the United States primarily fought on foreign soil of which led to great amounts of bloodshed at the detriment of Mexico. The United States originally provoked the war as U.S. president James K. Polk set his eyes on expanding west as he believed in “Manifest Destiny”. The War was a result of the United States Annexation of Texas. Texas was its own Republic from 1836 through 1845 after winning it war for Independence. Mexico although never…

General Zachary Taylor and his troops engaged in combat with the mexicans. Taylor decided to call in reinforcements after a Mexican cavalry attacked his troops. With the reinforcement General Taylor was able to win the battle of the Palo Alto and Resca de la Palma. After those battles had concluded president Polk told the US congress, “cup of forbearance has been exhausted,even before Mexico passed the boundary of the United States invading our territory and shed American blood on American…

The Oxford Dictionary defines social psychology as “the branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual.”. This means the study of how individuals and groups communicate, relate and act towards others as well as where certain behaviour/attitudes originated and how they developed and ultimately their effects. This particular branch of psychology is of utmost importance as with greater understanding, psychologists and…

Introduction Xerox trusts that diversity qualities measures up to advancement that at last prompts achievement. Individual contrasts became possibly the most important factor when Anne Mulcahy, previous CEO and Chairwoman of Xerox talked about diversity qualities. Acquiring individuals who think differently and work hard together, offers the organization some assistance with growing with imaginative thoughts as every individual includes his or her own point of view all while having a typical…

Corporate Divorce On November 1st 2015 former tech giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) split up into two different companies; Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP, Inc. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Hewlett Packard was originally founded in 1939 by 2 Stanford graduates, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. Like today’s iconic company Apple Inc, Hewlett Packard was founded in garage with initial capital investment of 538 dollars. HP first incorporated on 1947 and went public in 1957. According to…

Evans (2010) quotes Roger Katz, CEO at Friend2Friend of Palo Alto, California and Barcelona as saying, “What’s so appealing about social media is its power to reach out to not just one consumer at a time, but a huge network of friends through the open graph. Businesses must learn to do this or risk losing their connection with consumers altogether” (p.8). Businesses can now use digital media to market promotions as an alternative to using newspapers and TV or radio commercials. This is a huge…

Jefferson Barracks, Missouri for two years, where he met Maria Louisa Garland his soon to be wife in 1848. James and Maria had ten children but only five survived past childhood. James saw combat in the Mexican-American War in the battles of Palo Alto, Monterrey, and Vera Cruz. He spent the next several years after his leg injury with no sight of…

Juan Neito added the adobe to the rancho, which is the house where the Bixby family lived. The Year 1823 had a significant changes in the rancho, when the Rancho was divided into five great ranchos Rancho Los Cerritos, Santa Gertrudes , Las Bolsas, Palo Alto and finally Rancho Los Alamitos. After this time Rancho Los Alamitos had several owners. The last and the most important all the owners of the Ranch was the Bixby family. In the year 1881 John and Susan Bixby bought the Ranch. The area was…

Background Tesla, Inc. is an American company that specializes in electric automobiles, energy storage and solar panel manufacturing based in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2003, the company specializes in electric cars, lithium-ion battery energy storage, and residential photovoltaic panels. As of late 2017, Tesla now employs over 37,000. CEO Elon Musk said that he envisions Tesla as a technology company and independent automaker, aimed at eventually offering electric cars at prices…