Chapter 2 is called "The 10‚000-Hour Rule"‚ which refers to the claim that to become expert at anything a person must spend 10‚000 hours at it. Gladwell begins by describing the success of a computer programmer named Bill Joy. Joy comes to the University of Michigan as a teenager in 1971 and finds his way to the new computing center that opens there the same year. He becomes a well-known programer famous for his quick ability and skill. After graduate school he co-founds Sun Microsystems and helps
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The story Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is described to be a “story of success”; in fact those are the exact words on the cover of the book. I would consider this book more of a story that is not only describing success‚ but how people that became successful were able to do it in the first place. Overall‚ this book gives extraordinary background stories on how people that many of us look up today‚ started out as just regular human beings like you and me. This book is a magnificent source of motivation
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phone‚ I take a deep breath‚ look at her and quietly utter‚ “I guess we’ll have to talk through a radio in twelve months.” What I didn’t know at that point was this once-in-a-lifetime trip turns into a battle for survival. Inside the pages of Into Thin Air‚ Jon Krakauer displays in a morose but nostalgic way how human relationships are strengthened and built during crisis. The Mount Everest Disaster of 1996 may be an immense part of the novel‚ but facts and experience translates into emotions and
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Throughout Malcolm Gladwell’s‚ "Small Change"‚ he assesses the difference between strong-tie activism and weak-tie activism. Strong ties are the relationships between us and those we are closest to‚ our friends and family. This type of bond enables true social activism because we are committed to the relationships and are more likely to be compelled to take a stand and fight for change. Weak ties‚ on the other hand‚ are described as the type of relationship we have with our "friends" online. These
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Magazine. People might say that he still had control over his life completely while climbing Mount Everest‚ but when you put your life in the hands of someone else‚ they take the most control over your life‚ just as Jon Krakauer had done in the book Into Thin Air.
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purpose of this experiment is to identify an unknown proprietary drug using thin-layer chromatography. The unknown’s behavior in thin-layer chromatography will be compared with that of its possible component analgesics. The possible unknowns and their analgesic ingredients will be Anacin (aspirin‚ caffeine)‚ Excedrin (acetaminophen‚ caffeine‚ aspirin)‚ Motrin (ibuprofen)‚ and Tylenol (acetaminophen). Introduction Thin-layer Chromatography(TLC) was the method used to figure out and identify the
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state of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. This is a reoccurring theme in the both The Lost World‚ and‚ Into Thin Air. The problem with alienation in each book is that it has a negative effect on the characters and their decision-making. Into Thin Air is the book about the Mt. Everest disaster‚ the main character and narrator John Krakauer gets invited to come with Rob Hall’s expedition team‚ little did he know what he was
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Experiment 9- Thin Lenses Introduction Experiment 9 introduced us to the concept of thin lenses. We were asked to determine the focal lengths of two converging lenses and one diverging lens. The following equations were used to calculate the focal lengths: 1/p + 1/q = 1/f where p is equal to the distance of the object from the lens and q is equal to the image length from the lens‚ and f is the focal point and 1/converging F+ 1/diverging F = 1/combined. The focal point is positive for converging
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The book Into Thin Air is a documented disaster by climber Jon Krakauer. Published in 1997‚ Jon wrote about the devastating summit attempt by several different groups. This climb was stopped by a disastrous storm above the death zone killing eight people‚ including Rob Hall. Rob Hall was Jons respectable leader and a guide who was a very experienced climber bringing 39 climbers to the summit between 1990 to 1995. He was once again trying to keep his business booming by bringing more and more climbers
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Abstract: One is to determine the gap energy of cadmium sulfide semiconductor thin film using the equation: Eg = h.c/ is the signal of the long wavelength limit of the absorption peaks (measured in the lab). The reaction between cadmium sulfide and NH3‚ in the presents of thiourea yield a of 579(nm). The % error of the reaction is 1.24%. Introduction: There are 3 types of metals for electricity conducting: metallic conductor‚ semiconductor‚ and superconductor. Metallic conductors
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