Rhetorical Analysis Of Steve Jobs Speech

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Steve Jobs Commandment Speech "You've got to find what you love"
When you have a shot for anything should you take it ? Apple CEO and Pixar Animator Steve Jobs and his commencement speech you've got to find what you love empathizes Jobs purpose to inspire the graduating students of Stanford. Jobs adopts a hopeful tone in order to persuade the Class to do what they love and live their life to the fullest. Jobs inspired the students of Stanford by using the power of Ethos, Pathos and logos with a few anecdotes as examples.
Jobs begins his speech proving even the most under privileged students can reach success. He then uses emotional anecdotes to show his character history when he starts with " biological mother was a young unwed college graduate student who put me up for adaption" found on page 3. Jobs explains that it , doesn't matter about how you were brought up but it matters about life choices that you make and prove this idea by admitting that he " dropped out of college and dropped into classes that interested him". He uses this to keep moving in the face of adversity , This inspirational story conveys a hopeful tone that reassure the graduates they can beat all odds.
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Jobs then uses pathos to convey his emotion about what classes he dropped out of and dropped into and becoming interested in a computer class and not to mention his biological mother giving him up for adoption. Jobs finally gets to logos using logic to inspire the students that were graduating from Stanford and listing to his speech to Stay hungry , Stay