Steve Jobs' Life and Accomplishments

Steve Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24th

born to Joanne Schieble, and Abdulfattah Jandali. Both of them were graduates of the

University of Wisconsin. Unfortunately, they gave the unnamed (Steve) son up for

adoption. His father, Abdulfattah Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor and his

mother, Jonne Schieble worked as a speech therapist. Later after they gave Steve up for

adoption the married couple had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Steve was

27 years old. That he was able to discover this information on his biological parents.

As an infant, Steve was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven P. Jobs. Clara

worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard Veteran and machinist. The family

lived in Mountain View in California’s Silicon Valley. As a boy, Steve and his father

Paul would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show Steve how to

take apart and reconstruct them, a hobby which instilled something great into Steve.

As time went on Steve preferred to do things by himself. He was very competitive and

tenacious with certain things. However he was not interested in team sports or other

group activities.

While Steve being a very intelligent and innovative kid, Steve had frustrations over

formal schooling. He was a prankster in elementary school; Some of Steve’s teachers

even had to bribe him to study. When it came to testing results, Steve did so well that the

Administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school, however Steve's parent's denied

this proposal. Once it was time for him to become a freshman he attended at Homestead

High School in 1971. He then was introduced to his the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Clu...

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... was ill. In 2004 he had a successful surgery to remove the

pancreatic tumor. As time went by he was very successful in creating new things such as:

the Macbook Air, iPod, iPad, iTunes, and other cool things from him. Unfortunately, on

October the 5th

battling a pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade, Steven Paul Jobs died in Palo Alto. He

was 56 years old. As time went by Apple has been creating great things, new generation

computers, and devices. Steve Paul Jobs has never given up on what he does great. He

impacted many lives as to the way he worked and went through many struggles. He has

of 2011 Apple Inc announced that its co-founder had passed away. After

left a great Legacy for Apple to follow.

Works Cited

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Jobs-Steve.html

http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805

http://search.ebscohost.com/