Rhetorical situation

Speaker

The speaker of the Commencement Address at Stanford University is Steve Jobs. He was an American entrepreneur, inventor, and industrial designer, who started highly successful companies such as Apple and Pixar. He was also involved in the creation of revolutionary technological products such as the Macintosh and iMac computers, the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. In his speech, Jobs shares many different things about his life and career. 

Jobs talks about his upbringing in the first part of the speech: “My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption”. He mentions that he was raised by a working-class family and also discusses his education: “I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then st...