Steve McNair

Responding to a question about his failed inventions, Thomas Edison once famously said, “I have not failed 10,000 times—I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” It was this attitude toward his missteps and mistakes that helped make Thomas Edison one of the most famous inventors in history. As a young boy attending school, Edison was reportedly considered “too stupid to learn” by some of his teachers. Later in life, he was fired from his first two jobs for not being a productive worker

Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple, he created a lot of our technology. Without the technology that he has created life today might have been different, like we might not be as technologically advanced. He has influenced many cultural and social views that has both benefited and restricted him in many ways. Steve Jobs is an entrepreneur and inventor he was also co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple. As a result to his success Steve Jobs has both benefited and has been restricted by social cultural

based on old men and how they fulfilled their life. Also In a speech Steve Jobs gave at a graduation Speech he describes his very own beliefs on the tale of Love and how it neither makes life worse or better instead shows you the direction as to which path to take in life. In my own experience I’ve focused on life always giving us a reason to be happy whether we want

When I was small I was told that the worst thing I could do at school or college is dropout. As a kid all my brain thought was if I dropped out I would never be successful in my life. Then came middle school where I realized that it dropout = life failure was a lie. The main person that taught me this was Michael Dell(mainly) with some other amazing and successful dropouts like Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Paul Allen and more were all drop outs because they had a huge interest

Upon first glance at Alexey Aprelev, one would immediately guess that he is a scientist. This slim guy with glasses possesses a remarkable resemblance to Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory in both his appearance and occupation, because he is also a physicist. The current assistant professor and biophysics researcher at Drexel University, Aprelev has a long history with the most fundamental science. Born in Petersburg, Russia, he showed an early flair for engineering and science as he played

Cultural Artifact: Apple’s 1997 “Think Different” campaign Cultural artifacts are any objects, advertisements, writings, artworks and productions which give information about the people and the culture by whom the artifact was used (Steinbach, 2013). The cultural artifact I chose to perform a rhetorical analysis is on the Apple commercial campaign- “Think different” which aired in 1997 (Youtube.com, 1997). I am a loyal Apple customer and when I got the opportunity to analyze a cultural artifact

Albert Gonzalez was born in 1981 in Cuba. Gonzalez's parents immigrated to the United States from Cuba. He attended South Miami High School in Miami, Florida, where he was described as the "troubled" pack leader of computer nerds. He bought his first computer when he was 12. When his computer was infected with download virus, he took an interest in computer security. By the time, he was 14 had hacked into NASA, which resulted in a visit by F.B.I. agents to his South Miami high school and lived under

The Dallas Mavericks have had an interesting offseason to say the least. The free agency period started off fantastic for the team but got rough very quickly. With the pending signing of a massive free agent in Deandre Jordan, Mavericks fans were on cloud nine. We all know how the Jordan saga played out, so Dallas had to look elsewhere in free agency and through trades. Dallas signed a young shooting guard in Wesley Matthews and an aging point guard in Deron Williams. The team also traded for veteran

There is one way to earn a doctorate degree these days. Lucky are those celebrities who received doctorate degrees with out even stepping inside a classroom. For some celebrities like Batman’s Ben Affleck, he was able to get a higher education degree for being honored due to his accomplishments in acting. The tenured actor, according to Business Insider, was honored for his work in the arts. Affleck, who is an American actor and filmmaker, started out as a child actor in PBS. Later on, he moved

sent to do some time in rehabilitation to try and find out what made you commit the murder in the first place. Believing that rehabilitation works, you also have to have faith. So can someone be rehabilitated? Yes, in the story of “A Death in Texas, “Steve Earle writes about a man by the name of Jonathon Wayne Nobles. In 1986, Nobles was sentenced to death after he committed one of the worst crimes you could do. While under the influence of drugs and alcohol, his mind was unclear and he broke into a