Steve Jobs Rhetorical Analysis

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help to create and develop individuality. Steve Jobs learned this at an early age as a young man attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Job's was not certain what he wanted to do with his life and was very indecisive when selecting a major. After six months he decided to drop out of school and found himself sleeping somewhere other than a place of his own. Jobs explains, "I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."(1) Initially it seemed somewhat odd for him to be mentioning a stage in his life that resembled the lifestyle of a vagabond. As he continues to speak, you realize he shares his college experiences to relate to his audience on a more personal level. Jobs wanted to present himself in a manner that many college students could relate to in one way or another. ...

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him dropping out of classes and the effect being the acquisition of a priceless computer typeface system. "And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them..." (1). He also pokes a little bit of fun at his competitors.
Starting a business is a decision that over half a million people in our country decide to make every year. The obvious goal of each business is to maximize profits, however many companies struggle to find the right recipe for success. Steve Jobs and close friend Steve Wozniacki decided to start up the company Apple in Job's garage at the age of twenty. "We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us ...

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