Kevin Rose: From Wunderkind to Wiseman

Rose was placed, in error, in a vocational group of students, which was a lower level. He spent two years in that track before being rescued by

First, being employed in the blue-collar industry a person must show intuition. Rose studied the habits of the blue-collar workplace, and based on his observations came to better understand how the job requires both physical and mental capabilities of an individual. The author Mike Rose, grew up in the 1940’s, this is an example of ethos in the story. Rose observed his mother, Rosie Rose work in a local restaurant as a waitress. Rose observed his mother’s impressive ability to retain food orders while keeping track of her list of side work was a skill demonstrating her intuitive capabilities that were learned out her

First, in his article, Rose sets the scene by efficiently using personal anecdotes as an essential tactic to invoke the emotions of the readers to argue his claim. Rose introduces his readers to his concept by describing two short stories, on being his mother Rosie Rose and she worked as a waitress, left school to provide for her family, and used her memory and coordination when managing the diner and its customers. (pg.1033) This automatically sets the tone that the story is informal and personal, which he uses to invite the audience in emotionally and involve the reader. Namely, Rose continued the story by describing another anecdote of his uncle, Joe Meranglio, who

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg when he was a nineteen-year-old college sophomore. Steve Jobs was just twenty-one when he founded Apple. Kevin Rose of Digg and Steve Chen and Chad Hurley of YouTube were all in their late twenties when they launched

Vocational Education was viewed as the key point to Rose life. It prepared him to the “real world.” “Vocational Education has aimed at increasing the economic opportunities of students who do not do well in our schools. Some serious programs succeed in doing that… there were a few teachers who worked hard at education; young Brother Slattery, for example, combined a stern voice with weekly quizzes to try to pass along a skeletal outline of world history.”(Pg.126) Rose was blessed with some teachers in that track that found one way or another to help them and get things stuck to

She is a housewife. She can't do much in her life because of how she's married. Rose has her own dreams, but she keeps them as a boundary by only focusing on trying to be the best wife and mother she can be. She builds a fence to keep her family together. However things change for her, when she learns about Troy's affair. She starts feeling devastated. She tells Troy, "I been right here with you, Troy. I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don't you think I ever wanted other things?" (44). Rose maintained her relationship for eighteen years and has never done anything wrong to mess it up. She sacrificed everything for Troy and her kids, but she never cared or stood up for herself. In order for Rose to survive, she should learn to follow her own

Author, Mike Rose, in his article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” recounts his experiences with growing up around blue-collar workers. Rose’s purpose is to reveal the misconceptions that people who are not on a higher social ladder face. Rose shares firsthand experiences to convey blue-collar jobs as being more than just physical. Mike Rose builds credibility and emotional connections by sharing specific childhood memories his writing that makes him appear both intelligent and real. Throughout his article, Rose uses various strategies that are effective in persuading his audience because Rose utilizes emotional appeal, language and structure in order to logically connect his past memories to the present reputation of blue-collar jobs.

Rose sees herself as a home maker, a devoted wife whose job is to keep the family together. She stood by her husband Troy through thick and thin. Even when he brought a child home from the affair he had, Rose took the baby and took care of her like she was

Five years past, she had given up all the privilege her parents offered, as she hated the college path her parents set, lavish and prestigious as it was. With her parents unwilling to back down, she had left to go find a job waiting tables while paying for a college course that she loved with her meagre earnings. Her life has radically changed from what she had growing up, but at last she can enjoy her independence and freedom. As for family, she now has a friend in another waitress named Roxy, a young man named Axton that just like her had been banished by his wealthy father, and the elderly owner of the café she waits tables at, Ma. While Rose is a likable and fun person, she never takes any nonsense from anyone.

The CEO Elon Musk has earlier founded companies like PayPal and SpaceX, so he has a good track record.

Jim Halpert started up his blog in 2011, by then he had amassed a pretty large following and had quite an active forum, with the blogs success he eventually launched his own weekly podcast and chartroom all linked to his RSS (really simple syndication) feed. The subjects he wrote about ranged from professional development in the workplace to personal health and supplement tips. He found writing to be his true passion second to that would be his love for technology. He was a decent programmer and web designer but that didn’t stop him from pursuing his career with intensity. He started off his coding journey coming up with add-ons and skin designs for the open source browser Mozilla firefox. This worked out well as he was pretty good at navigating

"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it," said Elon Musk, a serial entrepreneur who shows a firm belief in having his own place in history. Musk consistently surpassed expectations from his peers and stockholders by creating and funding multiple companies and bringing them up to be multi-million-dollar corporations. Whether it was a website, space exploration, or a car company, Musk excelled in every type of business situation. The characteristics that enabled Elon Musk to have the detrimental impact are his passion and intensity, business acumen, showing a love for change, and his dedication to making a difference through technological advances.

Many times along Rose’s journey she experiences moments which could have gone terribly wrong and ended her life. You must not land on these spaces if you wish to live and continue the game.

Just weeks after announcing that David Wadhwani the former Adobe digital chief is joining AppDynamics as its new chief executive officer, the company's SEC filing showed that it has raised a cool $83.4 million. This shows that investors took a liking of the appointment of Wadhwani.

LinkedIn is the largest professional network in the world that was started by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, and Jean-Luc Vaillant in 2002 (all who were once employed by PayPal), although the launch of the LinkedIn website was in 2003 attracting 4,500 members (LinkedIn, 2011). LinkedIn’s founder Reid Hoffman along with Zynga’s co-founder Marc Pincus backed Mark Zuckerberg in the startup days of Facebook. He is also a partner in a company called Greylock that has invested in companies such as Groupon and Airbnb (Rose, 2009). Jeff Weiner was hired to work for LinkedIn as the interim President in 2008. In 2009, six months after being hired by then CEO Reid Hoffman, Jeff Weiner was promoted to the position of CEO and Reid Hoffman was taking on the position of Chairman. Weiner had worked at Yahoo for seven years before he left them and went to work for Greylock. He is ranked as the number one CEO on the career website Glassdoor. This is the first time that LinkedIn has made the list and Weiner received a 100 percent approval rating. The Glassdoor’s numbers came from a survey done by LinkedIn’s employees over a period of one year between 2013 through 2014 (Protalinski, 2014).