The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: The Growth And Development Of The Main Character

Throughout “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the main character Huck goes through a tremendous amount of challenges that cause him to grow in many aspects. These challenges affect the main character, Huck, by making him choose between right and wrong. In the novel Huck is torn by his moral influences. In the book, Huck’s ‘good side’ which makes him think positive and think about his actions before doing it, is embodied by the widow of the story. On the other hand, Huck’s ‘bad side’ the more negative, rebellious and ethical way of thinking is embodied by his father, Pap. This novel portrays many themes and many different points of view that allow the reader to connect with the main character in many ways. The main antagonist of the story is Hucks father; his father is a drunk and an abusive man, the author describes him to be the typical white American of this time. The reader can also say that the law is another antagonist of the story because Hucks breaking it in order to help Jim escape captivity and return him to his family. In this novel the main character goes through a dramatic experience that changes his way of thinking. From beginning to end Huck goes through many challenges that affect him to improve.

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” takes place in St Petersburg, Missouri, before the Civil War. The two main characters are Huck and Jim. Huck is a boy, who lives in the lowest level of white society; he is a dirty and frequently homeless boy. He is very rebellious and an independent character. In the first chapter, we see a lot of how Huck behaves and thinks. We know that he is adventurous, rebellious and outspoken. We also learn that he is a boy that doesn’t really care too much about religion. He is not really a polite and well-educated kid. He grew up in a very poor and unhealthy environment, which makes living with the Widow Douglas very uncomfortable. Although Huck is white, he is poor and therefore out of touch with civilized society. In some way I believe that Huck feels alone and that he doesn’t really have anyone that he can trust and confide in without being judged. Huck is uneducated and has a humorous way of speaking and thinking; he is also a thoughtful young man who is willing and eager to question that facts of life. Though Huck always remains open to learning, he never accepts new ideas without thinking, and he remains untainted by the rules and assumptions of the white society in which he finds himself.

There are also many other characters in the story that play a big role. For example, the widow douglas and miss Watson are two wealthy sisters that live in a big house and they adopt Huck after his father abandoned him. he Widow Douglas tried her best to make Huck a well-mannered boy. It didn’t take long until Huck grew tired of living in that type of environment. The sisters tried very hard to teach Huck about God, but Huck was very uninterested and is very confused on why he needed to know of him.

“Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then, but I didn’t mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn’t particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn’t say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn’t do no good”(Chapter 1). In the beginning of the novel Huck doesn’t really care too much about religion. He also doesn’t feel bothered of the thought of him going to hell.

Later in the book Hucks father kidnaps him and locks him in a cabin because Huck doesn’t want to give him his money that he has in the bank. While he was with his father, his father abused him and didn’t take good care of Huck. So, Huck faked his death and ran away using a raft that he found and paddled his way to a nearby river island where he encountered Jim. Jim was an African American slave that was in search of freedom from his owners. At this point in the Novel Huck believed that the right thing to do was to turn Jim in. however he doesn’t because he is torn between his morals. Further in the novel Huck says “Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain’t a minute to lose. They’re after us!” (Chapter 11). This is when Huck decides to team up with Jim. Throughout the story Huck struggles to treat Jim like a comrade and friend.

Huck pulls pranks on Jim and later learns that you cannot trick people you care about. Huck feels sorry and ashamed of the way he treats Jim and works his way up to apologize to him. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way” (chapter 15). This is a very important part of the story because this is when Huck recognizes Jim as a person and not property. The social order has taught Huck to dehumanize Jim. To treat him as property rather than a person. Jim’s humanity forces Huck to content with him as a person.

The recognition of Jim’s humanity leads Huck when he breaks all morality and religion that he knows when he learns that Jim’s plan to gain his freedom and the freedom of his wife and children. Huck writes a letter to inform his mistress but then he tears it up. “I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn’t. And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again” (chapter 31). This was a very significant moment in the novel because this is where the reader sees that Huck is confused between social law and divine law and he believes that helping a slave is a terrible sin that will lead to damnation. He has been with the widow long enough that he knows that hell is a real place for him. Huck ultimately decides that he will risk damnation if it means that he can help Jim escape captivity. This also shows how Huck rejects what he has been told about civilization while also rejecting his father’s version of uncivilization.

Essay on Women Development Policy

Women in South Africa

“Women don’t need to find a voice, they have a voice, and they need to feel empowered to use it, and people need to be encouraged to listen”

~Meghan Markle

Women who make up more than half the national population should be strengthened economically, not only by a means to encourage economic growth, but it is also a way of propagating women’s human rights. When we invest in woman and work to abolish inequalities, they will have a stronger chance of becoming a player in the various spaces of society.

South Africa ranked fourth out of 87 countries covered by social institutions in 2012 and the Gender Index of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It is the highest ranked African country in the index. South Africa’s high ranking reflects the fact that the country has a solid legal framework for gender equality and women’s rights. South Africa is also performing well on the indicators set out in Millennium Goal 3, which are development goals that focus on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

In 2000, Cabinet adopted the South African National Policy Framework for the Empowerment of Women and Gender Equality (Policy Framework), which provides for the establishment of a National Gender Mechanism (NGM). A NGM is a network composed of coordination structures within and outside the government, through cooperation to promote political, social, economic, and other forms of transformation. This is to eradicate systemic gender inequality and promote equality between both sexes. Since the adoption of the NGM model, some progress has been made in government operations and social behaviour. This has led to a request for a re-examination of the model, emphasizing the highest point of administrative coordination and therefore calling for the establishment of a special ministry for women. 13 out of the 28 ministers in the South African Cabinet are female.

Even though women have made great strides in their standing in society there is still lack of real transformation because of male resistance and prejudices. The ideology in saying that women are accommodated today, is simply based on biased employment policies and management strategies. Businesses need to start making a more noticeable effort to implement gender diversity strategies. Projects to Jumpstart this movement could be by positively discriminating in favor of women by promising an extra bonus to the company for meeting a certain standard number of women employees, staff, employers as well as in management position.

What I and the follow Queensburgh Girls High School representatives feel need to take place in this country is:

  • recruitment targets for women must be established.
  • a zero tolerance for any attempt at sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination must be promoted.
  • train leaders engaged in the talent process to recognize stereotypes and unconscious bias about the sort of work women can do and their potential success in male-dominated roles.
  • sponsor and offer a graduate program to young women in order to promote the career opportunities

In closing, it is important to understand that women are not victims. We fight for what we believe in and one day the world will hear our protest.

Nelson Mandela once said that “Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression”

Self-Concept As a Continuous Development Process: Reflective Essay

What is the self? Who am I? Which parts of you is “I”? What make makes me “me”? Have you ever questioned who you really are? Is there really a “self”? How are we able to recognize or know our “true self”?

In a world full of mysteries and unbelievable things about life, most of us, human beings tend to ask and ponder about some of these kind of questions as we grow older. We also tried to understand and considered the possible theories or the perceptions of our great philosophers, psychologist, scientist and other well-known persons about self-concept. These people came up with their own views about this topic and presented it to the world which helped some individual to give thought to or to also connect these concepts with their own lives, but many people were still contradicting about their theories, they said some of their notions were not true or possible that is why up until now we are still finding for a clear and concrete answers about the self. With all of these misperceptions, can we really say that the self is an important thing that each and every one of us must truly know? Does it really matter? How significant it is?

The self for me is a very complex idea. Most of us have different meanings or definitions about the word “self”. Why? Because each of us is unique. We have different experiences, thoughts, beliefs, personality, feelings and perspectives about our existence in this world. We don’t have the same purpose or reasons on why we continue to live. We have dissimilar goals, interest, capabilities, meanings and roles in life. So, with these, we can still again ponder or ask ourselves on how do we become like this? Why do I behave this or that way? Who am I at this present time? What are the factors that forms one’s personality or self-concept?

We always find ways or clues on how we can also answer these questions within ourselves. We never stop understanding and reflecting about our observations to our individual existence. Each of us have different beliefs and views about self, we may have come up also with our own insights about self.

Understanding one’s self is very complicated and hard to describe. By considering and summarizing the theories of some of the philosophers that we have discussed, I was able to formulate my own perceptions of the self that relates to my character and my own views about our life. So, my theory has also a similarity and combination with other theories that were mentioned which I find it very interesting and fascinating. Based from my own conceptualization and observations from my eighteen years of existence, people might also consider and reflect to the ideas I will be presented.

To begin with my theory, Self is the focus of our daily actions. It is continually developing and growing. Some of us believed that self-concepts show significant part in motivating us and forming our personalities. As we grow older, we are involved in experiences which develop our sense of self.

I believe that we absorb certain qualities form everything we interact with. It is from the environment which we grow. It is where we shaped our personality. Personalities is what makes an individual unique or distinct from other people. It observable that our behavior and traits differ depending on a specific situations or scenarios which is I think it influenced by our experiences and mainly with our environment. It is from the environment where we experience and feel happiness, sadness, fear, love, hate and anger. For example, if I lived with my parents who raised me very well and taught me such good deeds in life and also have friends who are very kind, open, smart and hardworking, then expect that I will also be like them since I was influenced and it is the things for me which I think socially acceptable. Thus, I tend to copy their actions and positive traits in order for me to improve myself. Otherwise, if I raised on a negative environment or in a place where I am surrounded by broken family, people with bad attitudes or friends who are fun of cutting classes, has a lot of vices, bullies and cheater, then it is also possible that I also share or have the same personalities as them. So, in this example, we can say that environment is one of the common factors that develop and shaped our own self-concept.

Moreover, cultures and religion are also one of the factors that affect the behavior of a person. It is in the culture and religion who commands the rules on the practices and characteristics of an individual. For example, here in the Philippines, we all know that it is a predominantly Catholic country. In this nation, we are taught about rules written in the bible which is the ten commandments, the seven sacraments, every Sunday we go to church to pray and attend mass, it encourages us to know what is right from wrong, and we also have laws that protect our human rights.

In this example, it supported some statements of the following persons. To Hofstede (1991), the culture is biased according to the culture and the condition in which an individual is raised and lived through. According to Sood and Nasu (1995), they explain that the nationality of an individual also can have an impact in the development of culture and values. Thus, Wines and Napier (1992), the religion is described as a moral code, which rule the behavior of an individual or a group of individuals or a society.

To deepen and widen my theory, I believe that self is a developmental process. As people grows older and lived longer in this world, our self-concept is being formed and being changed through the different factors such as environment, culture, religion, and significant others.

Significant others are also the ones who contribute in transforming and developing our understanding ourselves because from their opinions, feedback and criticism about us, we tend also to reflect and think deeper on how we act and what are their views on us. Through communicating and social interactions with others, self-concept is being developed. Parents, grandparent, friends, boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife and teachers may become our significant others. Those are the people who we valued the most. For example, when those people told me that I’m kind, friendly, hardworking, faithful and so on. Then, I’m also going to think that it is true because that is what they see on me. I also believe that the influence of those people continues to mature. As we grow older, we become sure about ourselves and we may not agree anymore on them. What is the essence of knowing self? A lot philosohers may be right on their their theory in which I believe in just like Socrates. I believed that we have one soul, for our Divine Creator made his sons with unique identity, plan and the character the we build in this life. It is our responsibility to choose what is wrong and right, but the decision derived from our values. Character formation is not made in one day or attending a lecture from our teachers. The totallity of who we are is just a reflection of our childhood. Parents are the main source of our personality today, because of them we were informed. Soul, is the biblical truth of our life which rest inside our body. Every life has divine soul within, it takes a matter of searching our conscience that we maybe able to apply the learnings from Socrates. It is our duty to achieve for the common good. Really, it does’nt matter on what philosophy we use or believe in, it’s the justification and effect of our decision. Since day 1, we are taught by our family how to do things the first time. We came across different people and childhood friends, without knowing that they too has affected our self in one way or another.

Education, molded us to be a better son and daughter while we understand the purpose of the things around us. We may not understand the reason for quite sometime but as we strive to seek for truth, ask questions to get answers. Are we aware that we can cleansed our soul by doing good to others? St. Augustine state that the superiority of of our soul over our body. Physical parts of our body is just our mechanical components to complete a task or make it function as what our Creator design perfectly.

Teenage years is also considered as one of the most influencial part of our life, to take control of ourselves. We try to test for our potential, experiment to get answers to our problems. Unknowingly, we are all leaders in our own litte way and take control of situation. Setting up standards will start to blend with our character, as people recognized us of who we are, what we want. Ambitions, expectation in life and pursuing it makes the difference now to use principles from our philosophers. They are just guide to make me understand that truth from the past will now be accepted as facts of today. St. Augustine introduce the philosopy of dualism between material and intellectual. As we search for our own path to success or to survive, we nourished our minds with information to be an intelligent person. I also accept that I need material things to give me comfort, a sense of fulfillment. It’s impractical to say that I only need intelligence but lack material things to appreciate and apply what I learn.

Religion is a part of our self, it allow us to ponder the deepest secrets of our life, moral values, biblical stories to define love and hate. Well, it does not matter at all on what religion we believed in, Christianity, Baptist and others. The real score in establishing this group or sector was based on the teachings of their own philosophers and ancient leaders. Faith should not be a topic of discussion for in the end it will only result into argument. Respect is one of the most important value that our parents taught us. As a formation of character starts in our home, environment will be our playing field to practice our norms. At this point in my life, I can attest and conclude that we reach for happiness. Everybody deserves to be happy, to be successful, to cleaned our soul and be at peace. It is a lifetime purpose of every human being. There are circumstances where we find ourselves hopeless, full of anger, envy and a lot shortcomings. Adopting the ancient teachings will only be a guide to me but it will not always be the case in life struggle.

Eternal destiny describes human being as essentially immortal souls striving to reunite with God through faith and reason. Sometimes, we argue in order to prove our principles, justify our rights and set as holder of truth. Control of our situation, make us a wiseman, a leader and reach for unity. War is the result of grid, seek for power, creating kingdom, injustices, oppression and a lot more reasons. Knowing self is the most important aspect that i should dealt with, to be a responsible individual. True love for God and family as well as other persons that forms our environment.

Time evolves, I accept science as a systematized knowledged derived from facts, observation and experiment. To find the absolute truth I need to conceptualized my idea, form different ways to solve it. It takes Descartes Philosophical project to analyzed that scientist learn from their mistakes, before achieving the final outcome. Faith stays within our minds as long as we continue to be strong, determined and united with God our great Creator.

Finally, realizing all the principles from our ancient philosophers will give us the independence to decide, make the right choice and reject bad habits, traits. Being a christian filled my soul with love and reality makes me righteous self. Education is just one way to build our foundation in life, but our environment keep us to be in touch with reality and take actions for every situation. I know that I should amid the noise and haste and let peace there maybe in silence. Motivation to succeed starts within us, to be a worthy real person. We can only influence the values we learn from the past, if we know how to practice it for real, seek for happines, cheerish every moment of our life and love with God, that is SELF.

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Essay on Steve Jobs at the Time He Started and Grew His Venture

Steve Jobs’s primary motivation for starting a business and the factors that led him to start the venture

For Steve, the motivation why he created a product was important. Steve Jobs was motivated by a passion for his job. He discovered what he loved to do early in life and co-founded a company that would allow him to focus on that. The primary motivation of Steve Jobs in creating the Mac is not money. There was an intrinsic value associated with the Mac. It was more than a way to amass millions of dollars. From the very beginning, it was about creating a product he would value. The Mac was the best thing that Steve’s team could build. Although he had been rejected he still loved what he did. Being able to face this kind of rejection and still want to continue down the same path shows that he had a true passion for his work.

There are a few factors that led Steve Jobs to start his venture of creating the Mac. Early childhood experiences are one of the factors that make Steve Jobs to start his venture of creating the Mac. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Steve’s adoptive father, Paul Jobs was a machinist and fixed cars as a hobby. Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands. Jobs and his father worked on electronics in the family garage. Paul showed his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that instilled confidence, tenacity, and mechanical prowess in young Jobs. Thus, this environment bought an impact on Jobs and it was one of the factors that influences him has the idea of creating a Mac. In his early childhood, he showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer. Besides, Jobs also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. There he saw engineers demonstrate new products, and he saw his first computer at the age of twelve. He was very impressed and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers. So, the computer had given him the idea of creating of Mac in his venture.

Robert Palladino is also one the big influencer one Steve Jobs that led him to create Mac. He had an enduring influence on Jobs and the business empire he erected. Jobs sat in on Palladino’s calligraphy class at Portland’s Reed College, which eventually inspired the elegance for which Apple computers are renowned, the tech icon recalled in his famous 2005 commencement address at Stanford University. If Jobs had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. Jobs learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, and about what makes great typography great. He found it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture and fascinating. That is the reason he applied it into his creation of Mac.

Last but not least, the co-founder of Apple Computer, Wozniak, Steve Jobs’s partner is also one of the factors that made Jobs to create the Mac. Wozniak is an American computer scientist best known as one of the founders of Apple and the inventor of the Apple II computer. Jobs and Wozniak both loved electronics and due to their common interest and both of them have an independent attitude about things in the world. Thus, Jobs decided to invent his Apple Computer with Wozniak with Wozniak’s knowledge of electronics and Jobs marketing skills. Moreover, Wozniak had designed many computers, so he has experience of making computers.

Steve Jobs’s goals at the time he started his venture and the sort of beliefs did he have

Steve Jobs’s goal was to change the world with his computers. Jobs’ goal, according to Walter Isaacson’s biography “Steve Jobs,” was to build an enduring company that prioritized people. Everything else — products and profits — while still important, would be secondary.

His vision for Apple was a company that turned powerful technology into tools that were easy to use, tools that would help people realize their dreams and change the world for the better. Jobs believed that in order to achieve great success and create revolutionary changes in the world, we must learn to prioritize the intersection of technology and the humanities because that’s how the best ideas emerge. The other visionary, Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in Jobs’s garage in Los Altos, California, in 1976. In contrast to Bill Gates, Jobs and Wozniak were hardware experts and started with a vision for a personal computer that was affordable to use.

Another tenet of Jobs’ philosophy was based on his belief that the computing experience should be easy to use and intuitive. That was embodied in his decision to follow early user interface designs created at Xerox Parc and with the Mac, popularized that graphical user interface. He also “borrowed” ideas from Xerox PARC and introduced a mouse, which made working with a graphical user interface easy. In decades of conversations with Apple executives and engineers, it is clear that the culture of innovation and ease of use has guided Apple in everything it does in terms of hardware, software, and even services. This is part of the DNA passed down by Steve Jobs and is the main reason why Apple continues to succeed even today.

Steve Jobs has faith in people. He believes people is smart and good and if he gives them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. Before Jobs entered Apple’s headquarters, he began to believe and trust in the best capabilities of Jobs’ engineers and other knowledge workers. In Apple’s recruitment practice, he pre-advocated a culture of trust in autonomy and empowerment. Indeed, Steve Jobs knew how to ‘instantly instill enthusiasm for creating breakthrough products for Apple employees, and believed that they could accomplish what seemed impossible.

Moreover, Jobs felt that a core component of design simplicity was making products intuitively easy to use. Sometimes a design can be so sleek and simple that a user finds it intimidating or unfriendly to navigate. Jobs repeatedly emphasized that Apple’s mantra would be simplicity. He wants to make their products bright and pure and honest about being high-tech. Those products will be going to package cleanly so that consumers know they are high-tech. These products fit in a small package and then make them beautiful and white, just like Braun does with its electronics. For Steve, quality was certainly defining habit of Steve Jobs. He always feels quality is much better than quantity, one home run is much better than two doubles. It was a consistent theme that ran throughout his career at Apple, NeXT, and PIXAR. In fact, quality was a genuine obsession that followed Jobs in all his endeavors. He surpassed normal supervisor standards to ensure that his products went beyond the consumer’s expectations.

Steve Jobs is famous for the invention of the iPod and iPhone, but his other great invention is the home computer. Many people do not have a computer at home, but Steve changed this situation. He was one of the first to invent the computer for the whole family to use in his own home. Before this, people just used computers at work. Later, he also made many popular Apple laptops and has been making them thinner and newer. Steve Jobs is a truly talented person. His invention has influenced the world in many ways.

Sort of resources (not just financial) Steve Jobs has when he started his venture

Jobs began to move mountains at age 21 when he and Wozniak started Apple Computers in the Jobs family garage. To fund their venture, Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry with Apple by democratizing technology and making machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive, and accessible to everyday consumers.

How concerned was Steve Jobs with control when starting the venture

Steve Jobs have his own way to control his company. Jobs exerted his control over every aspect of the business in the quest for perfection. Jobs encouraged a culture of strict accountability at all levels of the organization by meeting each Monday with executives to set the tone for the week. Run by a strict agenda, these meetings reviewed every single product under development. Employees were recruited into the company as specialists and put into roles that made the most of their specific strengths and abilities. Turnover was low despite the demanding corporate culture. Jobs was a passionate advocate for his vision and incredibly effective at communicating this to shareholders, customers and staff.

He hired the right people and trusted them to perform. Jobs understood the cost of hiring the wrong people. He was heavily involved in major hiring decisions and remained so even after taking medical leave. Many people have a wealth of knowledge that allows them to make the right decisions in various situations, but you cannot be an expert in everything. The best leaders know what they do not know, and they will ask experts to help them plan their next move. Before Steve stepped into Apple’s headquarters, he began to believe and trust his engineers with the best ability to produce. In Apple’s recruitment practice, he pre-advocated a culture of trust in autonomy and empowerment.

He taught his employees about humility. Some people might get a chuckle out of this one, considering Jobs was known to have a certain degree of arrogance, but he also had the capacity to admit when he was wrong and change his opinion entirely. When Jobs first introduced the iPhone in 2007, for example, it was a closed system, no one outside of Apple could create an app for it. A year later, Jobs made a complete “180-degree reversal”. He opened the system to the public after realizing how much more the device could offer customers with apps written by anyone with a good idea. In a world of stark dichotomies, it’s good to be fearless about changing sides or altering courses.

After his return to Apple, Jobs would take his top employees on annual retreats. On the last day of each retreat, Steve Jobs stands in front of a whiteboard and ask his employees about the 10 things they should be doing next. People would fight to get their suggestions on the list. Jobs would list them down and then cross off the ones he decreed dumb. After that, the group would come up with a list of 10. Then, Jobs would slash seven of them and announce the selected list they could do. The theatrics of the activity was meant to teach his employees about focus. Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. That’s true for companies, and it’s true for products.

What was Steve Jobs’s risk orientation when he started his venture

Steve Jobs had faced some challenges in his venture. Firstly, he faced a technology challenge. Judging from the functions of the iPhone 4S, Apple’s radical and innovative machines seem to be out of control. From both physical attributes and technical capabilities, the new mobile phones are insignificant compared to the previous generation’s products, rather than a fundamental improvement.

Secondly, he also faced leadership challenges. The company is in a leadership transition, which casts uncertainty on its future. Apple without Steve Jobs will be difficult to grow because he is a visionary leader, a person who understands technology, the market, and art, and can combine with all the sensational products. He has an attractive charm and can spread information to Apple followers to carry out effective and effective WOM and buzz activities.

According to Steve Jobs, another one of the biggest challenges that his company faced was that while their engineers were doing interesting work, that work sent the company in ’18 different directions. Apple’s employees had an amazing ability to execute but this might have resulted in them executing on many wrong things. Steve Jobs did a complete overhaul of Apple’s operations, killing thousands of great ideas in the process to overcome this problem.

Moreover, competition challenges also becomes an obstacle when Steve Jobs started his venture. Apple’s barriers to competitors and innovation magic have been formidable, and any company from Nokia to Research in Motion to Hewlett-Packard that has tried to challenge Apple has been trashed. In recent months, however, Apple has faced a serious challenge to two of its blockbuster products, the iPad and the iPhone. On the tablet market, Apple contends with an unlikely challenger which is Amazon.com. On the iPhone side, Apple faces a new challenge from Google’s Android phones, especially if Google manages to integrate Motorola Mobility successfully to its organization. In fact, according to a Nielsen Survey, Android phones command a 43 percent market share, compared to 28 percent for iPhones.

Lastly, the economic challenge was also becoming one of the obstacles. Though Apple enjoys a strong brand among consumers that makes the demand for its products inelastic, its sales are sensitive to an impeding downturn, especially in Europe.

Steve Jobs as he grew the venture

What key mistakes did Steve Jobs make along the way and some of the key lessons he learned

No one is perfect, even Steve Jobs. There are some mistakes he had did when he grew his venture. The first failure he made is revealed on the Apple III computer. This is the first Apple computer not designed by its co-founder Steve Wozniak and also the first time Apple has entered the commercial market. Apple III has many problems. It has serious stability issues and the motherboard gets hot quickly. This is because Steve thinks the fan is too noisy and gone. It led to design overhaul and recall of existing machines. In order to solve this problem, He won’t say it out loud, but he hopes Apple will make all the mistakes before the world sees them. The way he handles internal failures in the company is very different. By making multiple product iterations as needed and gradually improving the product. Then, when the final version came out, it seemed to be a few miles ahead of the competition. Even if there are a few failures, they can be solved by the time the product reaches the customer.

The second failure is on Pixar Image Computer. Steve Jobs admired how technologically advanced the computer division of Lucasfilm was. After George Lucas divorced, he sold the department to Jobs. Its first product was a Pixar image computer. For the high-end visualization market, it has never really taken off. Although it is orders of magnitude better than competing products, it is very expensive and sells less than 300 computers. Jobs knew that making Pixar become a successful business was not easy. However, he was willing to remain patient and flexible. He realized the dream of Ed Catmull who wanted to make the first cartoon. The technology is not ready; they have to figure out how to survive at the same time. They tried to sell Pixar image computers, but the sales were not satisfactory. John Lasseter, Pixar’s third co-founder, produced several award-winning animations to showcase the computer’s capabilities. The industry has noticed, but sales are still very low. They sold the hardware department and turned their attention to producing computer animation advertisements. In the end, Pixar turned his successful relationship with Disney into a $ 26 million deal and produced three computer-animated feature films.

The third failure he made was on NeXT Computer. After his involuntary departure from Apple, Steve Jobs was keen to show the world that he can build another computer company. This is why he founded NeXT, Inc. in 1985. Facts have proved that this is much more difficult than he expected. Like the Pixar graphics computer, the Next workstation is also aimed at the commercial market. The release of the NeXT computer experienced several delays because of its high price, and only about 50,000 units were sold. NeXT sold its hardware division in 1993.

This is arguably the most important lesson left by Steve Jobs. Yes, he is a patient and flexible entrepreneur. What makes him so different is that he has the courage to stand at a crossroads. He understands how powerful it is when he connects different worlds. Art and technology world. He knows that it is not just hardware that constitutes a personal computer. This is also the software and the way to combine the two. He is a true believer in a great end-to-end experience. In retrospect, what he wanted to do seemed ambitious, but looking back, it was the right strategy. This is not only good for customers but also a good business strategy. NeXT hardware is malfunctioning, but Steve wants to make great high-end computers. This led him to develop the software and eventually brought him back to Apple. In 1997, he sold NeXT to Apple for $ 429 million.

Essay on Life and Times of Steve Jobs

The Beginning

This whole journey started on February 24, 1995, the day that Steve Jobs was born. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, CA. Steve Jobs was actually, he was adopted by Paul Reinhold and Clara Jobs.

School

While Steve Jobs was in school, he was a really good student and all the teachers liked him. One day he was doing so well in school that he thought it was not fun anymore. So he started playing pranks on his friends, and on his teachers and he got into a lot of trouble by doing these pranks on his friends and teachers. Steve Jobs was actually told to skip two grades because he was too smart for the grade he was on. While Steve Jobs was in college he had to ask his friends if he could sleep on the floor of their room because he did not have any money to pay for the college he dreamed to be in. If Steve Jobs wanted to buy something for him he couldn’t, Steve Jobs literally had no money while he was in college, his source of making money was already getting drunk Coca-Cola cans and selling them to make money and buy something. But you might be asking yourself “why was Steve Jobs in a college if he could not pay for it?” Well, he said he did not want to be in college to get a degree, he only wanted to be in a college to learn things he was interested and could not learn at any place, that’s why he went to a college even if he could not pay for it. The college chosen by Steve Jobs even if he had no money was Reed College. Steve Jobs had a favorite color like any other normal child and his color was flush, he liked this color because for him it was a special color, he said you could see purple inside that color. Steve Jobs also had a favorite movie like everyone, his favorite movie was Toy Story. When Steve Jobs was not in school he had a hobby and that was working with his dad with technology and Steve Jobs loved to build things with technology. If you did not know Steve Jobs is the person who created the electronic devices a lot of people use these days. Another fun fact about Steve Jobs, while he was in college, is that he did not like to wear shoes, he would just walk in the college with no shoes, he once went to a business meeting with no shoes and that really annoyed the person Steve Jobs was meeting for the business meeting. Steve Jobs’s IQ level was really high, on 4th grade, he took a test to see what was his IQ level, after taking the test his teachers told him his IQ was 160 or above, and they told him he had a 10th-level IQ.

Company

Steve Jobs is the inventor of Apple. He did not know that that little company that he started at in his garage with one friend and his dad was going to grow and be popular. Today more than half of the world which is half of 7 billion people use any Apple product, to be more specific 64 percent of the people in this world use Apple products. Steve Jobs was the person that created the mouse that you use in computers. Steve Jobs also made the first telephone upgrade. He also made computers stylish. Steve Jobs also brought portable music players to the mosses. Steve Jobs, former Apple chief executive officer who died on October 5, 2019, at the age of 56, has been hailed as a cultural zeitgeist. He’s changed the way the world communicates, interacts and entertains. He’s even changed the way people all over the world think today like me and you. His company’s impact on society, and how we do business had been no less impressive. Steve Jobs created Apple which now is a really popular store that a lot of people buy their products and like. In Apple, they sell headphones, iPhones, MacBooks, and computers. Steve Jobs had a really big impact on the tech world and it really changed how a lot of people see things in the real world. A fun fact about Steve Jobs is that he was actually so good in school that he was a college dropout.

Family

In the Steve Jobs family, he had 2 siblings, Mona Simpson 62 years old, and Patricia Ann Jobs. His father Abdulfattah John Jandali, he died at 88 years old. His mom was Joanne Schebler Simpson and she died at 87 years old. Steve Jobs also had 3 daughters and 1 son, his daughters are Lisa Brennan Jobs 42 years old, Eve Jobs and who is 21 years old, and Erin Siena Jobs, and his son is Reed Jobs. Steve Jobs is actually the inventor of the game “Breakout”.

Steve Jobs does not like giving money to charity. Steve Jobs died of Pancreatic cancer.

Apple

In my opinion, Steve Jobs made a huge change in the world by creating Apple. He changed the world by creating new things people did not do or create, he changed how companies work and how people think. Steve Jobs made things easy and faster by creating new technology things that helped humans a lot and a lot of people buy items from Apple these days. Today Apple is one of the most popular stores in the world. A fun fact about Steve Jobs is that he was once fired from apple for being lazy and not wanting to do things. Before Steve Jobs chose the name Apple because when he was going home with his friend he thought of the idea apple because at that time Steve Jobs was on a diet and he was coming from a farm he was coming from, he choose apple because it was a fruit that was on his diet.

Money

In 2018 Steve Jobs’s family has announced the 40th richest family in the world. When Steve Jobs died he gave half of his money to the company that he created, Apple, and the other half stayed with his family.

Favorites

Steve Jobs could also give his opinion in what was his favorite food, Steve Jobs’s favorite food was sushi and soba his favorite topping was salmon. The last iPhone that Steve Jobs created was the iPhone 5 and after that, all the iPhones created up to the iPhone 11 were his Apple employees that joined him throughout his journey. He was also such a perfect person his friends sometimes call him annoying.

The End

This whole tech history and journey of Steve Jobs would one day end, and that day was October 5, 2011. Steve Jobs died of Pancreatic Cancer. Steve Jobs first got pancreatic cancer in 2003, so Steve Jobs had cancer for 8 years. A really tragic day in the tech world, when one of the best tech creators ended his journey. Steve Jobs’s last words were “ treasure life and family before every object in this world, when I die I cannot bring all the things I have achieved here, family always comes first”. And let me tell you Steve Jobs did not die without leaving a mark, he left a mark on this world and on the technology world and made our lives and everyone’s lives way easier.