Noor T. Grade 12 English

Steve Jobs' Speech  I really enjoyed this amazing inspiring speech by Steve Jobs, where he shared 3 stories about his experience and what he learned from life! The first story was about connecting the dots. He was saying how he dropped out of college after 6 months as he did not see the value in what he was learning and it was one of the best decisions he made because when he s topped taking the classes that didn't interest him and started taking classes that interested him, he  got to learn new things such as typography. At the time, he did not see any practical application for that in his life, but 10 years later when they were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to him and he used what he learned to design it all into the Mac. So if he hadn't dropped out of college and went into that typography class, then personal computers wouldn't have the typography they have!  This shows how when one door closes, another door opens and at the moment when a d

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE The illustration shows how when a person looks at something from a certain angle, he can see it differently from someone looking at the same thing from another angle. For me, I see it can be 3 or 4 as I saw the sticks from the front, so I can see both perspectives and also maybe because I see both person's points of views, but if it was not highlighted from the beginning that it could be either 3 or 4, my answer would be the first thing that my eyes see, depending on the angle I am looking from.  This illustration signifies how people can have different opinions and see things differently and this is very much influenced by many factors, such as their experiences, values, character, mindset, mental state at the moment. It also signifies how important it is to not insist on your own way of seeing things as there is nothing right and wrong, there is no truth because everything is subjective and dependent on your interpretation and from which perspective you see