During Steve Jobs speech to the graduating students at Stanford Jobs uses a lot of examples throughout his lifetime and tries to relate as much as possible to the students through stories about his lifetime and how his companies came about. Jobs uses different forms of Ethos, Pathos, and also Logos in his speech to Stanford. The issue is does Jobs fit the criteria to actually be speaking to graduating students about life challenges and his college experience. Here I’m going to go over the rather I feel if Steve Jobs was a good fit to be speaking to students and if he uses good Ethos, Pathos, and Logos examples while doing so. Ethos basically has to do with the writers or speaker’s character as it’s projected to the students through speech.
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Telling this to the class gives Jobs some sort of credibility which resolves in ethos and being such an inspiration with all the success and accomplishments throughout his lifetime also highlights ethos. Jobs being the public figure he was in the world can be just about be enough to persuade you to believe and listen to whatever is being told by him. The experience in the technology field Steve Jobs comes from being the founder of his well-known company’s Apple, Pixar, and NeXT which changed the way people commutate and see the world. So as Jobs opens the speech he starts one of the stories by saying “I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?” this being said shows that Jobs actually attended which can relate to the students but just later on down the line figured college wasn’t for him by not seeing the value and never knowing what he was going to do in life and thinking college wasn’t going to help. Later on using ethos by telling the students about being the founder and opening up about being the CEO of one of the most successful corporations Apple. Jobs goes on with telling his second …show more content…
A good quote that Steve Jobs says in his speech referring to Logos is “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” The way Jobs explains how he dropped out of college could be kind of insulting or more to counter his argument to students just graduating alienating some of the students who just spent a lot of time and money going to college. So by avoiding students think in this manner Jobs talks about how in just his little time at college he actually learned a lot from a calligraphy class he dropped into after he dropped out. By going into the calligraphy class Jobs was able to use the knowledge he learnt from the class into creating the Mac computer. Giving this information Steve Jobs shows that learning from a college can actually be a big part with your future aspirations, with this being the point he actually avoids constraints on any would be insulted college graduating students. Repeatedly reminding the student that death is inevitable which is a fact and to check themselves and make sure there doing what they love. Jobs also mentions how Reed College offered the best calligraphy instruction in the country saying that throughout every poster, every label on drawers was hand calligraphed and without this particular class the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts and
Telling this to the class gives Jobs some sort of credibility which resolves in ethos and being such an inspiration with all the success and accomplishments throughout his lifetime also highlights ethos. Jobs being the public figure he was in the world can be just about be enough to persuade you to believe and listen to whatever is being told by him. The experience in the technology field Steve Jobs comes from being the founder of his well-known company’s Apple, Pixar, and NeXT which changed the way people commutate and see the world. So as Jobs opens the speech he starts one of the stories by saying “I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?” this being said shows that Jobs actually attended which can relate to the students but just later on down the line figured college wasn’t for him by not seeing the value and never knowing what he was going to do in life and thinking college wasn’t going to help. Later on using ethos by telling the students about being the founder and opening up about being the CEO of one of the most successful corporations Apple. Jobs goes on with telling his second …show more content…
A good quote that Steve Jobs says in his speech referring to Logos is “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” The way Jobs explains how he dropped out of college could be kind of insulting or more to counter his argument to students just graduating alienating some of the students who just spent a lot of time and money going to college. So by avoiding students think in this manner Jobs talks about how in just his little time at college he actually learned a lot from a calligraphy class he dropped into after he dropped out. By going into the calligraphy class Jobs was able to use the knowledge he learnt from the class into creating the Mac computer. Giving this information Steve Jobs shows that learning from a college can actually be a big part with your future aspirations, with this being the point he actually avoids constraints on any would be insulted college graduating students. Repeatedly reminding the student that death is inevitable which is a fact and to check themselves and make sure there doing what they love. Jobs also mentions how Reed College offered the best calligraphy instruction in the country saying that throughout every poster, every label on drawers was hand calligraphed and without this particular class the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts and