General Purpose: To pay tribute to a person, group of people, institution, or idea. (PRO)
Specific Purpose: To pay tribute to Steve Jobs
Central Idea: I want my audience to have a basic knowledge about who is Steve Jobs and how significant he is to the development of the technological world.
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Though Different
Introduction
About nine years ago when I was still a ten-year-old kid, my parents decided to purchase an iPhone 3GS as birthday gift for me. As a kid who had never truly owned a cellphone much less a smartphone, I was impressive by the innovative design and features that the iPhone had to offer. It had a basic function of a feature phone but it could also be used as a handheld camera, a music player, or even a portable gaming machine. Back in that time, the idea of a device that could replace all of your …show more content…
The Entrepreneur.com, on October 8, 2008, stated that in 1975, after Jobs returned from India, Wozniak and he worked together to build the first personal computer in the garage of Jobs’ parents. In 1976, without any business experience and financial support, Steve Jobs and his friends were able to launch their first personal computer, the Apple I. The launch of the original Apple I and the Apple II a year latter, made Jobs becomes a multimillionaire while he was still in his mid-twenties. After the success of the Apple II, Apple hired a new executive and eventually fired Jobs in 1985.
b. In Blumenthal’s textbook, Steve Jobs: The Man Who Though Different, she said after his resignation from Apple in 1986, Jobs invested $7 million dollars in the new computer company that he founded, named NeXT, and bought a small computer graphic moviemaker called Pixar. Not long after that, Walt Disney Company decided to order a computer-animated movie called Toy Story from Pixar. In 2005, Walt Disney bought Pixar at $7.4 billion dollars and had made Jobs became the largest shareholders of