The Pursuit of Happyness Italian film director Gabriele Muccino made his grand debut into Hollywood filmmaking in 2006 when he decided to take an offer provided by Will Smith to direct The Pursuit of Happyness, the story of African-American entrepreneur Chris Gardner. In the film, Gardner is a salesman living with his five-year old son Christopher, and his wife Linda in an apartment in San Francisco. His financial troubles began after he decides to invest his entire life savings in overpriced…
background was as follows. Timothy Tiah attended an all boys school, St. Xavier's Institution when he was younger and then moved on to study at University College London after college. He lived a very typical student life as he grew up, going to cyber cafes and playing games such as Counter Strike and Starcraft for fun. He had a knack for table tennis as he used to play it really well and represented his school and eventually, his university when he studied in London. After finishing college,…
getting lost of the topic. How i was talking about many people have given the name of genius but today we are going to talk about someone that have left a Little of him in our pockets and the lives: Steves Jobs. Here we are going to talk of some things of Jobs that you know an some of them that you not. Steve Jobs or more communly knowed as the fundator and CEO of Apple was a man that make electronics tha make people feel comfurtable with and make part of it. He have made one of the first UX…
He was born in 1971 in South Africa. He grew up in a normal environment just like us but what makes him different is that he has always been fond of using and exploring the wonders of technology. He has purchased his very first company when he was just 10 years old and with that, he decided to start programming. In fact, just two years after that, he was able to create Blastar, his very first game and made it available for purchase. He was 17 years old when he studied in Canada but then left 3…
3D Printing & Kayak Fishing Kayak fishing and 3D printing might sound like two polar opposite hobbies, but forum member “hotbrass” found a way to combine his love for both. In an effort to make his time on the water more enjoyable he has been using his 3D printer to create kayak fishing accessories. According to hotbrass, he’s made everything from lures and camera mounts to skid plates, GoPro protectors, dropshop keepers, fish finder screen protectors and safety flags and lights. He is…
Johannes Gutenberg created the first movable type printing press during the Renaissance based on a failed business. His invention become a huge hit and greatly assisted with scientific practices by mass printing books. Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press after a failed business venture. “Nearly 600 years before Gutenberg, Chinese monks were setting ink to paper using a method known as block printing, in which wooden blocks are coated with ink and pressed to sheets of paper” (Palermo).…
After news of his arrest over a home-made alarm clock mistaken for a bomb, 14-year-old Muslim student Ahmed Mohamed of MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas received overwhelming support from notable people such as Obama, Zuckerberg, and a NASA engineer. In their respective social media accounts, the said famous individuals were reported to express their desire to meet the talented young man. According to Daily Mail, Obama tweeted that he found the juvenile’s creation as something cool and…
Hello, my name is Steve Jobs. As you know I was the CEO of Apple and invented the first Apple computer. I was Apple’s chairman, an entrepreneur, an inventor and a marketer. I was born in San Francisco, California on 24thFebruary, 1955 and died at Palo Alto, California 5th October, 2011. I was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs since I was born. I used to live in Silicon Valley where I attended Crittenden Middle School. They had a problem with bullying. One day I got bullied and I told my…
Justin Safier 12/3/2017 Business Communications The HP Way One of the main locations of major innovation in the United States in the last 40 years has been Silicon Valley in California and the company considered to have started it all was HP. The book, The HP Way by David Packard, David, one of the cofounders of HP goes over how he and Bill Hewlett started HP and how they grew it into the mega-corporation that it is today and try to explain why it’s so successful today and how it can be…
Biography of Rachel Maddow Background She was born on April 1, 1973 and her birth place name is Castro Valley, California. She was born to parents called Robert B. Bob and Elaine Maddow. She was an active girl from her child days. She has been living with her partner, Susan Mikula in Manhattan and western Massachusetts. They started dating from 1999 and made their first appointment from the National Rifle Association, where the couple enjoyed their first date. Maddow mentioned in her interview…