Steve Jobs Speech

Who was Steve Jobs?

• A teacher

• A doctor

• Apple founder

• Speech writer

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How was Steve and Bud's experience similar?

• They both grew up without their biological mother

• They both were adopted

• They both dropped out of college

• They both traveled from one foster home to the next

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How are Steve and Bud's experience similar?

• They both took calligraphy lessons

• They both were poor at one point in their life

• They both were rich

• They both ran away

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Which rule does Steve give in his speech

• Don't listen to adults

• Take a calligraphy class

• Drop out of college

• Trust your gut

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Choose the evidence that does not support the following claim: Jobs dropped out of college because he thought he was wasting his parent‛s money.

• “I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months."

• “I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.”

• “I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down”

• “all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.”

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Choose the following evidence that does not support the following claim: Jobs was humiliated when he was fired from Apple.

• “I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.”

• “And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK”

• “I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down”

• “I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.”

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Choose all of the evidence that supports the following claim: Getting fired from Apple was one of the best things that happened to Jobs.

• “I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. ”

• “I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar”

• “Pixar...is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.”

• None of the above

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