Steve Jobs Research Paper

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A Leader for an Industry
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” This foundational leader was a man rich with not just money, but with life. Steven Paul Jobs, a revolutionary pioneer, and man who changed a multibillion dollar empire, impacted American social and financial culture.
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. He was born to Abdulfattah Jandali, and Joanne Schieble, but shortly after he was up for adoption. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs who later named him Steven Paul Jobs. He moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California in 1957. Steve grew up in a neighborhood with engineers who would always work in their garages where Jobs could see all the gadgets that they were working on.
Education
Steve always had trouble in school, he pulled pranks in elementary school due to being bored of everything the school was teaching. He had always been a very intelligent child, so much so his fourth-grade teacher wanted him to skip all the way to high school. His parents declined for unknown reasons. At the age of thirteen, at Homestead High School, Jobs meet the most important person he ever met,
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He refused to be potentially cured by a surgery, but by just changing his diet and natural treatment. Only in 2004 when his condition was worsening, did he agree to do the surgery. For the next five years he looked perfectly healthy, even speaking about being “Cured” (Jobs) from his cancer. At a WWDC keynote Jobs was thinner than he’d ever been, and at the 2008 MacWorld, it was announced he would not be the keynote speaker. He seemed to recover after his six-month sick leave, until late 2010. Jobs health was steadily depleting. In January of 2011 Jobs announced sick leave, this time without an end date. On August 24, 2011, Jobs resigned from position of Apple CEO for the last time. On October 5, 2011, Jobs peacefully passed away in his