NAME: Vhonani
SURNAME: Mphoshomale
GRADE: 12
SCHOOL: Sagewood School
SUBJECT: Business Studies
NAME OF PROJECT: Film review
YEAR: 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
CONTENTS PAGES
Review:
a) Storyline and background (summary/plot)
b) Review and critical analysis
c) Conclusion
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Checklist 4
Additional information (visuals, etc.) 5
Reference list 6
Storyline and background (summary and plot)
The film (Jobs) is based on a true-life story of Steve Jobs who is a co-founder of apple Computers. Both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are co-founders of Apple Computers.
A married couple, Clara and Paul Jobs, as an infant, adopted Steve. At a young age Jobs would work on electronics with his dad (Paul). It is said that Jobs was an intelligent
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He then decided to encounter on a journey to India, travelling through the continent, with his friend Daniel. In Jobs’ family garage, Jobs and Wozniak started the first Apple project, it was in 1976.
When Apple I started trending, three years after Apple II was released, sales of the company increased. Apple reached high levels of publicity. Four years after the start of the company, Jobs decided to hire the marketing expect of Pepsi, John Sculley, as the new president of Apple. Macintosh was the release in the year 1984 by Apple. As time went by, the company’s executives decided to phase Jobs out because Sculley believed that Jobs was bringing the company down with his decisions and he was not the right person for his position.
In 1985, Jobs left Apple to start a new hardware and software company (NeXT). Apple then bought NeXT, now called Pixar, and its then when Jobs decided to return to his position as the CEO of Apple.
Review and critical
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The part where he fired his own friend, he was thinking at a business prospective and did not let his emotions take over because it was his friend. As a CEO or owner of a company you have to make the right decisions, even if it mean firing the most loyal people but if you have someone who can do the job/task better then you have no choice but to fire them.
What I did not like about the film, comparing it to the Steve Jobs biography, they missed out quite a few things in the film that were mentioned in the biography.
What I thought was interesting was the fact that Apple I was made in a garage. Jobs called so many people and the refused to help him with his project until one guy decided to check out Jobs” project and that’s when it started going platinum. But through all the phone call rejections Jobs and his team never gave up, they pushed through and if it wasn’t for their patience Apple wouldn’t be as huge as it is today.
In the film, the directors made Steve look like a good person whereas in the biography he was a mean person. Along with his creative mind he would make sure that he gets everything he wants, whether following the rules or not. If I was the director, I would make sure that the film ends in a way that it doesn’t leave the audience wondering what happened with the main character
200 years into this magnificent nation, America found itself dealing with many political and social controversies, but in the midst of all the madness, one of the most successful companies in the history of the world was founded. 1976 was a defining year for America as the country looked onward to its next century. Apple began to define what it meant to be a computer, the Supreme Court defined the legality of the death penalty, and Escambia High School defined their stance on racial tensions plaguing the town. 1976 was an unforgettable year in America and its significance to the history of our nation is undeniable. From a garage, a technological empire was created by the ingenuity of two visionaries, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
This includes a lot of formal terms and informal phrases, which Jobs weaves together to convince the audience that he can be as personal as he is professional. Jobs uses this trade off when he talks about his termination from Apple, humbly saying that he felt that he had failed the “next generation of entrepreneurs”. He says this to show that his failure does not cause him fury or despair, and he says his feelings at that moment frankly. He also says that when he was out of Apple, he was “very publicly” out. This formal vocabulary emphasizes the supposed finality of his time with Apple, which is vindicated when he eventually rejoin the company.
Throughout his speech, Jobs’ main goal was to connect with the audience on different levels and build trust so they believe him when he says if a person works hard and always follow their dreams, they will be successful. He establishes the connection through his style of writing by using ethos, pathos, diction, and repetition. Steve Jobs needed to prove to the audience that he was a credible person to talk about following dreams, and working hard. He used ethos to demonstrate how he is
Jobs’ portrayed a concrete diction through the phrase “I was lucky, I found what I loved to do so early in life” (Jobs, 2005, Pg. 2). This phrase helped the language of the text reflect back to Jobs’ purpose of the commencement speech. Jobs’ later got fired from Apple Corporations,“I felt that I had let the previous generations of entrepreneurs down- that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me” (Jobs, 2005, Pg.2). Jobs’ enlightened tone slowly declined into a calm, gloomy mood which portrayed that not everything in life came easy to Jobs and success was earned through hard work and devotion. Jobs’ purpose in this second story was to illustrate the difficult times he had, however through determination and hard work he was able to overcome them and do what he
Lastly Steve Jobs is a persistent person, who always tries to achieve his goals and never gives up. One can observe this in his attempts to get venture capitalist funding as well as in his persistence with regards to his employee
Made music available to buy on any ones computer and made it easier to listen to music. At the near end of Steve jobs journey he found out he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004. Then later on died on October 5, 2011. Steve jobs used perseverance, passion and brilliance to overcome his hard life obstacles. To begin with, Steve jobs used perseverance to create the most valuable corporation in the world.
Apple Inc., an American multinational corporation was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 197. The headquarters of Apple is located in Cupertino, California and it designs, manufactures and sells consumer electronics, computer software as well as personal computers. (Reference for Businesses) The company's wide range of products and services include the iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, Apple TV, a variety of consumer and professional software applications, both the iOS and OS X operating systems, iCloud and several other product accessories. Apple not only offers a variety of mobile communication, media devices and portable digital music players but they provide a variety of related software, services, networking solutions
Apple Company Apple Inc. is a private company, and it is one of the world 's most famous technology and computer companies, located in the United States of America. It is a multi-national company. Its main business depends on specialization in manufacturing, producing, developing, improving and selling software, smartphones, computers; It has a series of electronic devices, such as iPad, iPhone and Mac. The origin of Apple Company Founded by Steve Jobs and his co-pilot Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer was able to design a computer in the form of the beginning of Apple computers in the time period Between the years 1981 to 1985; since 2005 until now, Apple has seen many developments; successive successes.
At Apple, Steve Jobs was firmly believed that it is essential to encourage the employees and make them show the best. He always reminded employees that Apple is a good company, it was a honor to become one of the number of this company. It was to make them understand that everyone was noticed. This led employees to believe in their abilities, know their talents so that they could show the best in the
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, did the work, and give orders. Instead teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea” (Saint-Exupéry, 1948). This perfectly describes Steve Jobs. He was a leader with passion and clear vision who directed his people and got extraordinary achievements. While many believed him to be a transformational leader, others see him as a toxic leader.
The company 's main growth driver engine is Smartphone business and Tablets. Apple Company (officially Apple Inc.) is one of the most famous companies in the world, they are the producers of iPods, Mac computers and the iPhone. The California based organization designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. It was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, since then Apple has risen to become one of the largest companies in the world.
Executive Summary On April 1, 1976, Apple Company was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Apple headquarters is located in Cupertino, California. Apple Inc. designs, produces, and sells various media devices (apple.com, 2014).
Apple Company. Is an American multinational firm that layout and manufactures shopper electronics and PC software products. Apple was founded on the first of April, 1976, at the hands of "Steve Jobs" and "Steve Wozniak" and "Ronald Wayne" for the sale of personal computers called "Apple. The company manages more than two hundred and fifty shop of retail stores in nine countries, and shop on the Internet sold by hardware and software products. The reason why I choose this organization is because it 's very successful and famous device everywhere in world.
Jobs was fired from Apple back in 1985 because the board believed he was no longer useful to the company, in fact, they believed he was being detrimental to the business, he says “our visions of the future began to diverge and… our Board of Directors sided with him.” Jobs chose to talk about how he was fired from Apple, the company he had founded, because it reveals Job’s biggest failure, He had spent most of his adult life growing the company, only to have it taken away, yet Jobs pushed on and recovered it later on. This use of pathos strengthens the connection with his audience, and shows how someone so successful once reached rock bottom, yet managed to climb his way back up, and it inspires them to be like
Apple, Inc., an American multinational technology company, which founded on April 1, 1976 in California, United States. The company has earned $53 million of income in 2015, which increase $14 million of income compared with 2014 (Apple Inc., 2015). The co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company, Steve Jobs is passed away for the pancreatic cancer (Park, 2011). His leadership and entrepreneurship have successfully developed the company from a small personal computer company to a multinational corporation that selling various types of electronic products and software such as, iPad, iPhone, iOS, and others (Apple Inc., 2016). 1.0 Critical Success Factor