op ed.

My op-ed piece is Steve Job's Sister, Mona Simpson, giving an eulogy for Steve Job. She didn't know that her long-lost brother was Steve Jobs--she met up with him when she was 25, and they became close friends since. She wrote about how he lived virtuously, humbly, and determinedly, and explained how these traits never disappeared even through his sickness. The article transitions to how his death was like, ending with his own last words: "OH WOW! OH WOW! OH WOW!"

The article was very effective. It convinced the readers how Steve Jobs was not a self-centered CEO stereotype. Using touching stories, Simpson strengthened her argument with pathos. It gave a feel of an insider's relation with Steve Jobs. The chronological order of events in the also allowed the article to smoothly transition to how he was when he was healthy, ill, and eventually dead. This piece of writing was clearly effective in showing how great Steve Jobs was beyond the Apple Company.