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    Blink Summary

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    BLINK- SUMMARY The Blink thesis can be summarised thus: * Split-second decisions can be far more accurate than drawn-out‚ deliberate‚ “rational”‚ decisions. * However‚ split-second decisions can also be heavily flawed. * Interventions can be made to help people harness the power of split-second decisions. EVIDENCE OF SPLIT-SECOND DECISIONS OVER DELIBERATE DECISIONS * Experiment subjects quickly started following the profitable strategy in a card game‚ but could not explain why until much later

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    Marko Ceki Mrs. Reed AP Lang 3A 15 November 2012 Blink Blink is a book about rapid cognition‚ about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time‚ or walk into a house you are thinking of buying‚ or read the first few sentences of a book‚ your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. From this book I learned many things for example that our brain is like a big computer that contains and processes lots of data. This book showed

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    Francisco Ayala May 9‚ 2012 English 101 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell is a speaker‚ bestselling author‚ and Canadian journalist. He is a writer for the New Yorker since 1996. Gladwell has four New York Times bestseller books he has written. Among one of those books is Outliers: The story of success (2008). Outlier‚ a nonfiction book‚ had to do with social psychology. Outlier is about the success of people who do not fit into our normal understanding of achievement. Gladwell points out that many

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    Natalie Haro Mrs.Spruill 2nd block November 21‚ 2014 Rhetorical Analysis: Outliers Chapter 2 Ten-thousand-hours is how the people today and the past have became successful. In the Outliers‚ written by Malcom Gladwell he gives his belief on the ten-thousand hour rule. He uses load language‚ appropriate attiude and reliable evidence. Malcon Gladwell is correct in his assertion that ten-thousand-hours and a special opportunity are essential to become successful. Malcom Gladwell’s agrument is filled

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    The success of a person is based on a number of things. Dedication‚ determination‚ drive‚ focus and the necessary provisons. However‚ there are some of us who achieve success because of the people we know or simply by good luck. Being in the right place at the right time or genuinely striving for excellence‚ success is accessable to all. In the movie The Blind Side‚ success is portrayed to be accessible by simply knowing the right people. The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama

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    In Kurt Vonnegut’s‚ Harrison Bergeron‚ and Malcolm Gladwell’s‚ Outliers: The Story of Success‚ “The Trouble with Geniuses” Part I & II‚ are both similar because they tell stories that are about geniuses and how they live their lives. Being a genius does not mean that life is simple‚ but that life is filled with disadvantages and you just have to deal with the situations. In Outliers‚ the two main characters are Christopher Langan and Robert Oppenheimer are real people who struggle with their disadvantages

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    What is Success? Wealth And Support? Or Opportunity And Talent? Every author is different than one another. Some write fiction‚ some write non-fiction. Others like to argue and introduce their theories and ideologies to the world. But all authors have one thing in common: each writer has a main point‚ or main idea‚ to get across the papers and into our heads. Whether it is a short story‚ chapter book‚ article‚ or even a paragraph written down. Every word

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    Jingwen(jeanie) Feng Professor Heard English 92/93 05/05/2014 What Outliers Show us about Success Many people believe that success has a direct correlation to one’s intelligence‚ ambition‚ and personality traits‚ but in fact‚ those are not what someone successful. As described by Malcolm Gladwell in the book Outliers‚ the successful become that way as a result of many factors that come their way. Gladwell shows that surrounds the successful are their culture‚ their family‚ their generation

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    There is an obvious discrimination shown in the movie “Freedom Writers”‚ where everybody hates everybody and they got no choice but to live in a world full of pandemonium. Random cultural implications are shown in the movie. Where one has to accept his/her society since birth‚ or someone has to really join a gang to keep up and belong to a hood. In the case of the students in the movie‚ they are just simply hopeless and what they all just do is to keep raging flames in their hearts. Until one tough

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    Focus Questions 1. In the novel‚ Outliers‚ the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ defines key factors that leads one to be successful. To begin with‚ Gladwell asserts that “parentage and patronage” are key factors of success (19). In other words‚ success is measured based on one’s maturity level. For example‚ a younger child in the same grade level as an older child is more likely to be at a disadvantage because he/sh e lacks the cognitive skills that the older child has developed. Therefore‚ the older child

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