In The Unlikely Event Of A Water Landing Summary

1. Slater's style of writing in "In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing" was written in a storytelling voice. This storytelling voice gave a less academic tone, but it engaged the reader to be more interested making the overall voice work for the purpose of the paper. On top of her style, Slater organized the chapter by breaking it into the five steps as each section. This helped the reader follow finding the main points of the article more easily. The purpose of having the sections broken into each of the five steps was to highlight the steps to the reader, so he or she could recognize that it was a step.Then, the step would be reinforced through the section. Overall, this organizational method aided the reader learn the five steps and reinforce them into his or her memory. Lastly, Slater had antidotes throughout her article. These helped the reader see how the steps are applied to reality and make the steps more personal. By using antidotes, the author made it more likely for a reader to follow these steps.
The findings that surprised me the most of Darley and Latané were the smoke test. In the smoke test, two actors were placed in a room with an unsuspecting subject. Then, the testers started having smoke pour into the room. When the unsuspecting subject would inquire about the smoke the two actors would seem unconcerned about the smoke. The results found that a majority of the subjects did not act on the smoke (Slater). The fact that people are more worried about breaking rank in a situation than survival is concerning and shocking to me. I would have thought that the primal instinct in humans would drive people to try and get out of life threatening situations. However, many people put staying the same as everyone else above potentially saving his or her