In this section‚ Gladwell emphasises how cultural legacies operate as strong forces. He starts with the history of the small town situated on the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky‚ called Harlan. It was founded by eight immigrant families from the northern region of British Isles in the early nineteenth century. The first settlers were herders and this region was cut off from the rest of the state because of its tough accessibility. The town was always thinly populated never crossing the population
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“Something Borrowed: Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life?” By Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell writes the article‚ “Something Borrowed: Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life?” That article corresponds to a specific incident of plagiarism between a play writer and a journalist. The play writer is Bryony Lavery and she takes work from Gladwell and specific moments in the psychiatrist‚ Dorothy Lewis’ life. Gladwell‚ begins the article by telling a story about Lewis’ friend who is watching
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The Order of Things – What College Rankings Really Tell Us by Malcolm Gladwell The main argument of this article is that it doesn’t matter who comes out first place in a certain ranking‚ it all depends on who’s doing the ranking and on what variables the ranking is taking place. Malcolm Gladwell believes that a ranking can be heterogenous (diverse in content)‚ as long as it doesn’t try to be too comprehensive (including all or nearly all aspects of something). He also believes that a ranking
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Blink‚ blink. I stare at Chris Matthews on the television for the first time as his words ring familiar in my head. It’s the third time I hear his words‚ because his show repeats several times in the evening news cycle. The TV has been on all day while I worked on my computer‚ but its the first time I look at his face. All day I’ve focused on my Mac screen‚ working on my projects. Mostly a design for a new mobile website for Resurrection Hospital‚ but also the daycare site‚ the moving company site
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Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell’s examination of what makes some people a lot more successful than others. These "outliers‚" as he calls them‚ are commonly thought to possess some sort of talent and intelligence far above a normal average person‚ but he also looks at this popular belief by looking at the background of some famous outliers. Gladwell begins his research in a small town of Roseto‚ Pennsylvania. The town is known for having a remarkably low rate of heart disease among its residents. After
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Outliers Summer Reading Assignment Introduction: The beginning of the book‚ Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell‚ starts off with the story of the Roseto Mystery. This is referencing from a true story taken place in a small town named Roseto in Pennsylvania. The name Roseto originated from Italy‚ this is named so because the people who make up Roseto‚ Pennsylvania are immigrants from Italy. People from this small‚ self-sufficient town amazed many doctors such as Stewart Wolf; the fact that heart disease
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to do (Facione‚ 2011). I believe that Malcolm Gladwell is trying to tell readers of Blink that critical thinking can be done in just a few short minutes. “What is Blink about? It’s a book about rapid cognition‚ about the kind of thinking that happens in the blink of an eye.“ (Gladwell‚ 2005). You don’t need to take hours or days to do it. We have always been told that spending time to gather all the information is better‚ but is that necessarily true? Blink has several stories in it where we see
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Victor Horn Professor Pickford English 101 5 November 2009 Free Will Really Free? In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking‚ Malcolm Gladwell demonstrates the intriguing effects of priming by citing and analyzing its effects on individuals in priming experiments. One of those experiments involved two groups of undergraduate students. One group was primed with a set of words that described a disrespectful person‚ and the other group was primed with a set of polite or respectful words
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XXXXXX XXXXXXX Mr. XXXXX English 84 February 1‚ 2013 One of the Major Causes of Obesity Mark Bittman’s article “Coke Blinks” discusses how the famous soda company‚ Coca-Cola‚ recently released a video where it addresses the growing problem in our nation of obesity. In the video Coca-Cola attempts to claim that it is not their fault people are obese; it’s the consumers fault because the company offers low calorie beverages and now has smaller proportioned drinks. They are basically saying that
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David Berg 8/14/13 Outliers Outliers‚ is a book by Malcolm Gladwell‚ which is known as the book of success. This book explains why some people succeed more than others and it even suggest that birth dates are a factor of success giving an example of Bill Gates and his success in Microsoft. If your are interested in why Asians are superior in math‚ or why the worlds smartest man has accomplished the least‚ this book has all the answers. The title says it all outliers means those persons of exceptional
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