After the recent death of Steve Jobs, I found it hard to imagine that such a rich, so powerful, and incredibly intelligent man died of a cancer that could have been cured! How can anyone be so intelligent as to question the authority of doctors? The answer is simply stubbornness. Steve Job believed that he would not only beat cancer, but he would also find a cure! With so many resources at our fingertips, it should have been an easy task. It's safe to say that with all the money he had, doctors and scientists would have worked overtime to find a cure. How could Ted Kaczynski, such a brilliant man, one day graduate from an Ivy League school, and then become the man who terrorizes people all over the United States? Unfortunately, Steve Jobs and Ted Kaczynski are just two of many examples of people whose pride put their lives or the lives of others in jeopardy. Thesis: Early life, Unabomber, Prison. Known to many as the Unabomber, Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. According to Paul Ferguson in his article “Ted Kaczynski: Evil Man, or Tortured Soul?” featured on CNN, As a child, Kaczynski spent much of his time in the hospital when he was diagnosed with an allergic reaction that caused hives all over his body. According to Ferguson, hospital staff who photographed Ted said he looked terrified. In their article “An Adlerian Analysis of the Unabomber,” Amy M. Leeper and her colleagues at the University of Texas explain that “Ted's childhood was spent largely with his mother, who devoted all of her time to education and care of her two children”. children” (169-70). In their article “Tracking down the Unabomber” Nancy Gibbs and Sam Allis suggest that Ted had the mind of a genius. According to “………… middle of the paper……What reasoning can be used to explain this type of behavior? How could such intelligent men go against proven facts? What can be learned from this strange behavior is that no one knows everything. These men who had such a bright future ahead of them, only used their judgment to completely destroy their lives. All for nothing. This is simply arrogance! Maybe there's a fine line between genius and madness. Works Cited Ferguson, Paul. “Ted Kaczynski: Evil Man or Tortured Soul?” Time Warner, 2000. Web. November 16, 2010. Gibbs, Nancy, and Sam Allis. "On the trail of the Unabomber." Time International (South Pacific edition) 16 (1996): 24. MasterFILE Premier. Network. November 15, 2011 Leeper, Amy M., Stephanie Carwile, and R. John Huber. “An Adlerian Analysis of the Unabomber.” Journal of Individual Psychology 58.2 (2002): 169-76. Premier of academic research. Network. November 15. 2011.