Silicon Valley
Jungbae Mun
ENGL 102
T/Th 11:00
E. Sheppard
Essay#3 Rough Draft
1 Mar 2012
Exploring New Communities Most people would live in better place than they are currently living. However, it is really difficult to find the place which suit perfectly to their hopes. There is the place called Silicon Valley in California. Silicon Valley could be described as the Technology City. It means there are many people who works for thousands of companies such as Apple and Intel. The city, Silicon Valley would be the best place to people who are looking for a job, establishing new business, having great avocation. Shortly, Silicon Valley is located in San Francisco, California. Silicon Valley was not that city which has high technology companies. The first reason to being high technology city is climate. The humidity in the area is not high, it is suitable for electronic devices which is easily malfunctioning by dust and moisture. Silicon Valley is considered to be the technology hub of the United States. The region is made up a number of computer companies and computer chip manufactures. The region gets its nickname from the silicon that is used in computer chips. Due to the demand for space in Silicon Valley, real estate and other property is very expensive and hard to find. Thousands of companies in Silicon Valley offers many kinds of jobs such as related to computer software& hardware and electronic technology. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS), in the year 2000, a cohort consisting of about 2,600 high-tech business born in Silicon Valley added over 27,000 jobs to the local economy of the area centered in and around San Jose, California(BLS). Between 2000 and 2009, 61 percent of employed people lost their jobs. More than 46 percent of all high-tech business born in 2000 were mostly related to computer system design industry. Even though this industry had the largest total employment in both 2000 and 2009 , almost 7,000 jobs were shed by the industry 's
ENGL 102
T/Th 11:00
E. Sheppard
Essay#3 Rough Draft
1 Mar 2012
Exploring New Communities Most people would live in better place than they are currently living. However, it is really difficult to find the place which suit perfectly to their hopes. There is the place called Silicon Valley in California. Silicon Valley could be described as the Technology City. It means there are many people who works for thousands of companies such as Apple and Intel. The city, Silicon Valley would be the best place to people who are looking for a job, establishing new business, having great avocation. Shortly, Silicon Valley is located in San Francisco, California. Silicon Valley was not that city which has high technology companies. The first reason to being high technology city is climate. The humidity in the area is not high, it is suitable for electronic devices which is easily malfunctioning by dust and moisture. Silicon Valley is considered to be the technology hub of the United States. The region is made up a number of computer companies and computer chip manufactures. The region gets its nickname from the silicon that is used in computer chips. Due to the demand for space in Silicon Valley, real estate and other property is very expensive and hard to find. Thousands of companies in Silicon Valley offers many kinds of jobs such as related to computer software& hardware and electronic technology. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS), in the year 2000, a cohort consisting of about 2,600 high-tech business born in Silicon Valley added over 27,000 jobs to the local economy of the area centered in and around San Jose, California(BLS). Between 2000 and 2009, 61 percent of employed people lost their jobs. More than 46 percent of all high-tech business born in 2000 were mostly related to computer system design industry. Even though this industry had the largest total employment in both 2000 and 2009 , almost 7,000 jobs were shed by the industry 's
Bibliography: Fox, Justin, 13 Aug, 2009, TIME, Silicon Valley: Fewer jobs at higher pay Marman, Tim, 9 Jul, 2008, Center Networks, Here 's why you should not start a tech company in Silicon Valley There’s been a bit of back and forth on what the best place to start a technology company is these days