Never Give Up By Jimmy Valvano

Steve Job’s commencement speech in 2005 at Stanford University, which is one of the best university in our country was very memorable and inspiring for Stanford graduates and also for audience listening to speech. In his speech, Jobs inspires students and audience to pursue their dreams and always to follow their heart no matter what even though things don’t always go according to plan and never give up. Steve Job is mainly known for his contributions in the technological world but along with that he is also recognized for his world-renowned presentations. Jobs’ simplicity in delivery and extensive use of rhetoric makes his speech effective and comparable to speeches of famous narrators. In this commencement speech, Jobs uses simplicity in the structure of his speech along with the use of rhetoric such as ethos and pathos besides usage of personal stories to make this speech effective in inspiring his audience and making it memorable.

The book Heat was written by Mike Lupica and was a very inspiring book. In the book, this young boy named Michael, who was going through something really awful and he just wanted to give up. After the incident Michael wanted to mope around, give up, and just feel frustrated with himself. The theme is when something bad happens never give up because in the end something wonderful could come out of it.

“And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle” (Jobs). At Stanford University’s 2005 graduation ceremony, Steve Jobs was invited to give a speech that would serve an impact on those beginning their lives. Throughout the speech, Jobs elaborated on the background story of his life, successes, and failures, which all pertained to the true purpose of his speech. His stories and lessons had the ability to grasp the audience due to his consistent use of pathos, repetition, antitheton, and logos, all of which were enveloped into a short and simple structure that supported his statements regarding how individuals should live their own lives. Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech contains rhetorical devices that all contribute to his exertion of life-changing advice that could benefit all individuals of society striving for success.

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Shouldn't fiction be part of students’ curriculum in their academics? School board across the states no longer has a place for fiction in school curriculum. From the beginning of time, many of native storytellers carry morals through generations of passing down customs, history and heritage. Such as Always Running by Luis Rodriguez, there are morals into which one retell and learns from mistakes. It is important today in which storytelling had been around from cave paintings, movies to novels. Without history, without the storytelling, mankind would not learn from their mistakes, never dream of heroes like Alfred Einstein and would not acknowledge anything of the past. Mankind would bewildered of the past, then eventually will be hopeless in

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Steve Jobs, who is known as one of the greatest innovators of our time, had given a speech in 2005 to new graduates from Stanford. As many would find this ironic since he never graduated from college, but by the end of the speech they have realized why he was there to give the speech. He successfully gives the speech by using multiple rhetorical devices such as repetition of life experiences as well as common emotion that everyone consists of. By using those, his goals are to have the new graduates continue through life by doing what they love to do no matter what obstacles comes across their life.

There have been many speeches by great men and women over the years but one speech that stands out to me is John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. That speech had what a lot of other speeches did not; the power to move people’s hearts. It was a simplistic speech and that was a good thing. Instead of talking about just the American people he talked about the world as a whole. He also made great use of alliteration to keep a good flow with the speech so it almost sounds like a poem. These are all points that I will talk about to explain why JFKs speech was so moving and impactful.

I found “i have a Dream” by Martin Luther King to be the most compelling speech, because I think Martin Luther KIng was very convincing and had great ponts/statements. The speech was talking about how everyone should have the same right and same amount of freedom as everyone else like it says in the Declaration of Independence

A Rhetorical Analysis of Steve Jobs Commencement Speech for Stanford University's Graduating Class of 2005: Jobs titled his speech "You've got to find what you love." Steve Jobs is best known as an American entrepreneur, inventor and industrial designer. He was the cofounder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. and founder, CEO and chairman of Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs and cofounder of Apple Inc. Steve Wozniak are wildly recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

The excerpt of Steve Jobs’ 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University displays an array of emotion of which many people may see it to be an inspiring way of understanding the purpose of life and death. Steve jobs addresses several compelling views about the value of life after battling through cancer. He wishes for readers to understand that life will become bliss when minor troubles are released and the main focus in life is self-progress. Jobs also believes that people must learn to become contempt with life and death. Immortality is a ridiculous fear humans are guilty of and Jobs believes that in order to view life in a more positive way, life and death must be accepted as a part of life. As a reader, I agree with Jobs’ views because

On his commencement speech to Stanford students on June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple computers and PIXAR animations, used carefully crafted inspirational anecdotes and rhetorical devices like ethos and pathos to move his audience to explore, follow their dream and do what they love no matter the odds.

“You’ve got to find what you love,” I completely agree with Steve Jobs. Everyone searches for happiness and what they live for. He had gone through a lot to figure out what he loved. Steve’s three stories were very influencing. To be young and having to figure out what to do with his future and to make a living, was it worth it for him to do what he loves? He made me think that it was worth it in the end. Steve went through hard times, but ultimately he lived a very successful life. Steve had chosen a college that was not fairly cheap. He chose that school and did not even like attending it. His parents strived to even let him afford to go to college. Eventually he dropped out. He was making his parents happy for going, but he was not

In Steve Jobs speech he uses the tactic of proving that he is trustworthy by past experience. When writing a speech it is important to make sure your audience can trust you and is comfortable trusting you. Steve Jobs uses his past experiences to show that if you can find what you love early in life, you have a better chance being successful. In How to Live Before You Die Steve said, “I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me… So I decided to drop out… Looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made”. He uses his past to tell them that sometimes you just have to take a chance and hope it just works out. He needed to put this earlier in his speech to show the class that he is not just making things up and even a successful person like himself was scared for a period of his life. Later in his speech he talks about how he could take any class he wanted. He gives most of the credit for creating the Macintosh to a calligraphy class. “If I had never dropped in on that calligraphy class, the Mac would

Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple, Pixar, and NeXT says, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” during the June 12, 2005, Stanford University commencement address. Jobs gives a speech about his life and the hardships he experienced to further motivate the college graduates to reach their dreams by doing what they love and to succeed even as they get knocked down. Jobs tells the audience. “Your time is limited,” meaning that, when doing something they love, they must keep at it because time is of the essence, and life is too short to hate doing whatever they do or are going to do every day. Taking the audience through the events of his life, Jobs speaks with a humorous and hopeful tone. Steve Jobs successfully