Nishan Panwar said, “Follow your passions, follow your dreams, but most of all follow your heart.” Steve Jobs advocated for this type of attitude at his Commencement Address at Stanford University in 2005. Using tricolon, antithesis, and pathos, Jobs urged the graduates to follow their dreams despite struggles in life.
Tricolon is a series of three words, phrases, or sentences that are parallel in structure, length, or rhythm. Tricolon is often remembered more clearly due to the use of three. Jobs first uses it when he describes his living conditions after dropping out of college due to his lack of interest and money.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms. I returned coke bottles for
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the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week. (Par 7) Here, Jobs uses tricolon to emphasize the struggles he faced after deciding to drop out of college.
He didn’t become rich instantly. He continued to follow his dreams and passions despite his struggles. He eventually signed up for the best calligraphy class in the country because it piqued his interest. Steve Jobs described what he learned as “beautiful, historical, and artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating” (8). Jobs eventually found something that he found fascinating to pursue, knowing that it had no hope of practical use in life. A decade later, Jobs was able to use the lessons he learned in that class to build the first Mac and build up Apple from the ground up. All of Job’s wealth came from him following his dreams without …show more content…
hesitation. Though tricolon is often remembered due to the repetition of ideas in three, antithesis is remembered because two opposite ideas are introduced together for contrasting effect. When Jobs recounts the story of him being booted from Apple, he says that It turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. (15) This is a resounding quote because being fired isn’t something that is usually good. The weight of running a company was gone and he was free to follow any other aspirations he had in life. He was free from commitment to previous expenditures and had no limitations on his creativity. He followed his dreams in the face of failure and started a new company called NeXT, created Pixar, and fell in love. Apple eventually bought his company and he was brought back into the fold. Despite his failures the first time around in Apple, he got a second chance because he followed his dreams instead of giving up. He allowed his passion for his work to flourish and it paid off. Moving on from auditory devices to get his point across, Jobs now invokes the emotions of the audience, known as Pathos, to drive his point home.
The story of Jobs struggle with death invokes the feeling of helplessness and sadness within the audience. When Jobs finds out that most types of pancreatic cancer are incurable he had to live with the fact that he would die. When he finds out that it is curable, he realizes that nobody wants to die, a sentiment that everyone shares. While facing death, he realizes that time is limited and says “don’t waste it living someone else’s life…. have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition” (26). By telling this story, he brings up the circumstance of death. It can happen at any time to anyone. This invokes a feeling of helplessness and sadness within the audience. Death is unequivocal, so he urges his audience to follow their dreams while they can because they might not be able to the next
day. Throughout the speech, Steve Jobs tries to convey that you should follow your dreams and passions despite struggles in life. He manages to get his point across by using rhetorical devices that catch the audience’s ear. He then invokes the emotions of the audience to drive the point home. All of these rhetorical devices manage to convey the message that you should follow your dreams in life, despite struggles.
Loss and How We Cope We all deal with death in our lives, and that is why Michael Lassell’s “How to Watch Your Brother Die” resonates with so many readers. It confronts the struggles of dealing with death. Lassell writes the piece like a field guide, an instruction set for dealing with death, but the piece is much more complex than its surface appearance. It touches on ideas of acceptance, regret, and misunderstanding, to name a few. While many of us can identify with this story, I feel like the story I brought into the text has had a much deeper and profound impact.
In the contract of life, there are numerous requirements. Every living being must be able to reproduce, practice homeostasis, consume energy, and adapt. However, there is one component of life that facilitators don’t include in their lesson plans: death. While all living organisms must have the ability to perform certain tasks in order to be considered living, all life must come to an end. Death is not a matter of if, but when. Many humans share a common fear of losing a loved one, yet authors utilize death to convey a profound meaning within their novel. In the first paragraph Bill Barich’s novel, Laughing in the Hills, he uses the inevitability of death to supply the reader with insight on the theme of his writing.
Smith begins his speech by describing how people have the mindset to pursue a great career, but tends to not follow the steps to do so. The credibility of his speech is well established by his subjective tone. Rather than using statistics, he uses his own opinions and real life situations in order to convey a sense of credibility behind his
The theme death has always played a crucial role in literature. Death surrounds us and our everyday life, something that we must adapt and accept. Whether it's on television or newspaper, you'll probably hear about the death of an individual or even a group. Most people have their own ideas and attitude towards it, but many consider this to be a tragic event due to many reasons. For those who suffered greatly from despair, living their life miserably and hopelessly, it could actually be a relief to them. Death affects not only you, but also those around you, while some people may stay unaffected depending on how they perceive it.
It is inevitable that we will all die it is a fact that everyone must come to terms with. There comes a time in everyone’s life that they must face death; a friend’s tragic accident, a family member’s passing or their own battles with diseases. When faced with the idea of death people will act in different ways some may find it therapeutic to apologize for the negative they have done, some may want to spend time with loved ones to ease the future pain, and others may decide that their life was not what they believed. The story Death Constant Beyond Love tells us about a man named Senator Sanchez who is living a happy life with his wife and five kids. That is until he is told by doctors that he only has a short time to live. Death is unknown much like love, we do not know or understand when love will find us, and it is the same with death. In Death Constant Beyond Love is not your typical love or death story. After told about his pending doom Senator Sanchez wants to keep his life as constant as normal, until his desires for a young woman change his plans, and then he dies.
By definition, tragedy seeks to question that which would not exist were the world designed and controlled by human desires and instincts, if not to also answer such questions. What best fits this description is the concept of death; no living person can tell of it, and yet every living person must one day face it. It is in one’s nature to ponder the one concept that will at some point triumph over each and every individual; therefore, tragedy often takes on the role of telling a tale of distressing but necessary truths of life and its one sure victor. Ironically, the most traumatizing event that every person has in common is the one of which no one can have full knowledge of, and so death must be compared to this life if any attempt is to be made to better understand it. Death can be witnessed and felt in the loss of peers as well as any simpler organism, but it is also evident in the small deaths in life, which include treachery, poison, and corruption.
Stanford Commencement Ceremony is a very prestigious, it is an honor to be asked to speak for it. In 2005 Steve Jobs was invited to speak at Stanford’s Commencement Ceremony and he delivered his speech where some of his most famous quotes came from, such as “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” -Steve Jobs. When he steps up to the podium viewers can tell that the crowed has high expectations for his speech. For Steve Jobs the 2005 Stanford Commencement speech was a success because he had a clear and focused message and it was engaging in content.
Executive speechwriter Anthony Trendl once wrote “A commencement speech, simply, is an opportunity to share your experience, values and advice. The precise form is up to you. This affords the speaker a platform to say amazing, unlimited things.” Steve Jobs’ Commencement address to the graduates at Stanford University was delivered on June 12th, 2005. Jobs is well known for being the CEO of Apple Computer, Pixar Animation Studios, and the inspiration of many rising entrepreneurs. In his speech, Jobs makes it clear that his delivery will be outlined by three short, but important stories pertaining to his life experiences. Each story contains one or two main lessons intended to help these Stanford Graduates as they move on into a new world. Jobs’ over all speech structure, sense of wisdom and experience, topped by his widely recognized success, empowers his speech to be strongly convincing. However, with the happily ever after stories, promises in leaps of faith, and ideally controversial context with college graduates, the speech seems to be a bit less relatively persuasive .
It all started in the garage of a twenty-something Steve Jobs. He and a friend put what little money they had together ($1300) to make the first computer for Apple, and thus Apple was born. The idea for the first Apple motherboard was made by Jobs while he was on LSD. He was quoted in the New York Times saying, “Taking LSD is one of two or three of the best decisions I have ever made.” Markoff, John. "New York Times." What the Dormouse Said 2005: 3. Steve Jobs talks about his early success when stating, “when I was 23 I had a net worth of over a million dollars, at 24 it was over $10 million, and at 25 it was over $100 million.” Steve Jobs is a true embodiment of what Apple is: unique. Co-founder Steve Wozniak said this about Jobs, “With Steve Jobs you never know exactly where an idea comes from.” This is what Apple is, not conventional and predictable. However, when looking at their marketi...
Job was an honest, God fearing husband and father who lived long ago. His story is told in the Bible where we see everything that he loves taken from him, and in the end even his own health. Due to his wrath from God he experiences grief and finally finds favor with God. Kübler-Ross’s study of those who were grief stricken and suffering a terminal illness began her search for a process to assist them with accepting terminal illness and grief. She defined and divided grief in five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and ultimately acceptance. In this paper the author will compare the story of Job and how it correlates to the grieving process defined by Kübler-Ross. A comparison of the relationship and interaction between joy and grieving will be madthcare professional has an opportunity to help balance the activities of strengthening and disputing in the face of grief and bereavement (O’ Brien, 2011, p.321). As Gods instrument, part of a healthcare professionals’ calling is understanding the grieving process, and giving comfort and guidance to those who are suffering amidst ...
I consider Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 to be one of the most effective speeches. He uses mechanics of speech to craft a well-rounded speech that is crowned by his use of rhetorical devices. Jobs gives relevant and fundamental knowledge of his life and experiences with his rhetorical approach. In his speech to the Stanford’s graduation class, he tells different stories of love, loss, discovery and difficulty he faced in his life to encourage new graduates as they continue to mature in life. He encourages students to pursue their dreams and not be discouraged by failures they might experience in life.
In 2005, Steve Jobs’ gave a commencement speech to the University of Stanford. His speech is a very motivational and inspiring to everyone that has listened to it. He talks about three stories that happened in his life and allowed him to be where he is today. Connecting the dots, love and lost, and death. He puts his life events into perspective and allows you to see how everything came together for him. Never giving up on what you believe in and doing what you love every day.
In life, dying is essential. Everyone will at some point in time, die. However, how a person lived their life could play a role in how they end up dying. Whether they die by natural causes, or they die as a form of punishment, everyone will eventually pass away. William Faulkner and Juan Rulfo both talk about their main characters lives and then their death in their short stories, “A Rose for Emily” and “Tell Them Not to Kill Me!” Through Faulkner and Rulfo’s use of literary devices, such as characterization, flashbacks, and foreshadowing readers are able to understand how the main characters life and death are both similar and how they are different.
Death is one of the concepts that is perceived differently throughout cultures. Some see it as a punishment or loss, some take it as just another chapter of our existence – a transition to the unknown. Death is so much more than just life running out of time; it includes a great deal of pain: physical, social – leaving our loved ones behind, mental – trying to understand what fills that void when we die, emotional – frustration and regret, and spiritual – fear of not having led a fulfilling life. There is a fear of death, or the unknown that awaits afterwards not only in relation to ourselves, but also in relation to people we love, and despite the pain that fills our hearts, sometimes we need to do the right thing to ease their journey.
We are all aware of death, and we know it will come to us all. To many of us death brings a chill down our spine ridden with fear, but to others it is ridden with strength and satisfaction of accomplishment. Fortunately or unfortunately we are all condemned to death. However no one knows when exactly the inevitable will approach, but we all know it is inescapable. But what makes death seem more realistic to us and those in denial of it is the lucid pictures of people suffering, in pain and those on their death bed before many of us can be rationale and accept the truth. Someone once said, “Life is about 50-70 years of pain. One is born through the mother’s pain and die leaving others in pain.'; How do we accept and deal with the process of our last days with all the suffering we go through, and the suffering our loved ones share with us? What impact does suffering and death leave behind? Does the love we had experienced decline with our shrunken bodies, does the responsibilities we challenged take control of us or does our friendships eventually sail in the distance like the compost to become of us; or perhaps all three? Or conceivably we build a stronger love for life, and a stronger legacy for our loved ones to cherish? What pain do they feel? Yet, all in all we need to distinguish what it means to suffer? Is it “to endure death, pain, or distress?'; Or can it be to sustain loss or damage. In this paper I will attempt to show that as human beings we take for granted what “life'; is and seem to forget that death is inevitable. But most importantly how suffering and death have an impact on our daily and routinely concepts of love, friendship and responsibility.