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Steve Jobs

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STEVE JOBS  Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. His unwed biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, put him up for adoption. Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a lower-middle-class couple, who moved to the suburban city of Mountain View a couple of years later.  He lived in the Silicon Valley in the early 1950's after the sprouting of a myriad of semi-conductor companies. As a result, young Steve Jobs grew up in a neighborhood of engineers working on electronics and other gizmos in their garages on weekends. This shaped his interest in the field as he grew up and made his interest grow even more. Five years later, when Steve Jobs reached college age, he told his parents he wanted to enroll in Reed College — an expensive liberal arts college up in Oregon. Even though the tuition fees were astronomical for the poor couple, they had promised their son's biological parents he would get a college education, so t

Online Newspapers

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The newspaper online that I decided to choose is El Informador from Guadalajara, Jalisco. The name of the article is called "Reportan fuera de peligro a bebé intoxicada por cocaína".  This article is about an 8 month old baby who was intoxicated by cocaine. My opinion of this article is that it is very sad to see that someone would do this to a child this small, it was frustrating to try to comprehend why someone would do this. I chose this article because the headline caught my attention and my roots come from this place.