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Choose one individual from the late 1800s - 2012 that best exemplifies the idea of the American Dream.

As you conduct your research you need to identify the following:
 * Background information of the individual - create the context. Determine biases, motives, etc.(4 points)
 * The problem which they overcame to become the person they iconic individual we relate to today. (include specific details as available) (8 points)


 * similar to the format of the New Deal debates.

DAY 1 Debates on Wednesday: Who is your individual? Who struggled more to gain their achievement. Background - He was a college drop-out - Co founded apple, and Pixar - In 2006 when Disney bought Pixar he became apart of the board of directors the Walt Disney Company - Built the Pixar branch of Lucusfilm - Founder of NEXT a computer programming for businesses - Apple bought out NEXT and as part of the deal Jobs was named the interim CEO of apple. As founder he took control of the company and saved it from bankruptcy. - Created the iPhone, iPod, iPad iTunes, iMac - Also created successful businesses like apple retail store, iTunes store and app store. Motives - Was adopted and his birth mother wanted him to have college educated parents. His birth mother was not well educated and wanted him to be college educated. However when he went to college he did not like the classes that he was in. He dropped out but sat in on some computer classes. He learned more from those classes than he did in his other classes. His mother wanting him to go farther so he pushed himself to go farther. This was his motivation so that is birth mother would not be mad he did not go to college. Bias -He was a business man trying to promote his business. This had other companies try to bash apple. This was why some thing bad were said about him. He was creative so he pushed people to make his ideas come alive. This had some people dislike him because he was pushy.

Over coming -no college He dropped out of college and this helped him in the long run because he got to work with his dream faster. however some of the things he might have learned could have helped him. -asked to leave apple Left apple because the company voted him out. However he then started Pixar and made toy story -cancer in 2003 Was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas. he fought it and lived for 8 more years - letting go of apple in 2011 Left apple to fight the cancer that came back. however he lost this fight but left a legacy behind.

"Steve Jobs Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." //Steve Jobs//. N.p., 30 May 2012. Web. 30 May 2012. . I also used information from a video we watched in english.