Steve Jobs: A Man who Revolutionized1 the World.

Though he died before crossing the threshold of his sixties, ‘Steve jobs’ had already led

a unique and an ‘enchanted’ life. He was born to ‘Abdulfattah Jandali’, Syrian in origin, and

a German descendant mother: ‘Joanne Simpson’. Both had been in College together when

they first met. They wanted to marry, but their families wedged between them. While

pregnant, Joanne had run away to San Francisco, where she had given birth to baby boy

‘Samir’ (Steve afterwards). She left him in a foster home. Later on she would comment:

«If I had conceived of a baby girl, this would have never posed a problem. But since I

delivered a boy, who took after his father’s Arab countenances, I feared people’s

harassments and pestering questions: O! I know of how Americans like to poke their

noses in other people’s affairs. I hate questions like: is this your boy?”

In the meanwhile, the Armenian ‘Paul Yacoubian,’ who had migrated to America thirty

years before, and his American wife ‘Clara’ adopted baby Samir and his name became

‘’Samir Yacoubian.’’ Soon, ‘’Samir’’ became ‘’Steve’’ and the complex Armenian name

‘’Yacoubian’’ transformed into ‘’Job,’’ to roll off the American tongue. Since that day on,

the child’s name has become ‘’Steve Jobs’’.

Prior to Steve’s demise, last month, ‘Abdulfattah’ confessed that it had never dawned on

him, not until a few years ago, that his son has been ‘’Steve Jobs.’’ He added that after the

discovery, he had sent many letters to his son, but he had never heard back from him.

‘That is why he decided not to keep trying 2’, lest it would be believed, that he wanted a

share in his son’s fortune. In his own words: «I still hope my son gets back to me. I really

do. It seems very unlikely though. I can’t make whether he shirks from acknowledging me

or it is simply a reckless indifference of a young man who was born and raised in America

or because ‘Steve’ has never actually known his real father and mother for a big chunk of

his life. ‘’

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I’m aware ofthe simple choice ‘changed’, but still I want to see if this word holds or not.
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For this particular reason, he opted not to try again?
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 Steve worked in a computer company (Apple) for a while before he was discharged 3 of

his position. He said a word which has become a catch-phrase ‘for generation s to come’4:
“I  didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing

that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by

the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter

into one of the most creative periods of my life.” 5  He ‘rose up from slumber’ and opened

up before himself and the world limitless horizons: The iPod, the iPad, and the iphone.

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decommissioned
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‘that might be bequeathed down to future generations’?
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Of course I found it in the net. If it were by me translating it, it would be like this: « instead of
the heavy burden that comes with success, a lighter burden of starting from the scratch ensued.
They fired me. But little did they know that they gave me wings that unleashed my creative powers
more than any time before. »
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