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1．A Biography of Steve JobsEarly lifeJobss birth parents met at the University of Wisconsin, where Jobss Syrian-bornbiological father, Abdulfattah John Jandali was a student, and later taught, and where his biological mother, Swiss-American Catholic Joanne Carole Schieble, wasalso a student. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Jobs was born, said hehad no choice but to put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriends family objected to their relationship.Steve Jobs （February 24，1955 — October 5，2011） was born in San Francisco, California. He was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986), an Armenian American. According to Steve Jobss commencement address at Stanford, Schieble wanted Jobs to be adopted only by a college-graduate couple. Schieble learned that Clara Jobs hadnt graduated from college and Paul Jobs had only attended high school, but signed final adoption papers after they promised her that the child would definitely be encouraged and supported to attend college. Later, when asked about his adoptive parents, Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs were my parents. He stated in his authorized biography that they were my parents 1,000%. Unknown to him, his biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child, novelist Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962.The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Jobs was five years old. The parents later adopted a daughter, Patty. Paul worked as a mechanic and a carpenter, and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. Paul showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, he became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering.Clara was an accountant who taught him to read before he went to school. Clara Jobs had been a payroll clerk for