n the novel‚ The Tipping Point‚ by Malcolm Gladwell epidemics are meant to include smoking‚ crime and even Hush Puppies. People you know can spread social or medical epidemics. Epidemic: Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time. In the novel‚ The Tipping Point‚ by Malcolm Gladwell he explains many epidemics that have effected everyone in one way or another. For example‚ Hush Puppies‚ teenage smoking‚ and crime in cities
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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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nominated as the “best” players had accumulated an average of over 10‚000 hours‚ compared with just under 8‚000 hours for the “good” players and not even 5‚000 hours for the least skilled. Summing up Mr. Ericsson’s research in his book Outliers‚ Malcolm Gladwell observes that practice isn’t “the thing you do once you’re good” but “the thing you do that makes you good.” He adds that intellectual ability — the trait that an I.Q. score reflects — turns out not to be that important. “Once someone has reached
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Outliers: The Story of Success By Malcolm Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success is a book that examines the qualities and experiences of successful people in order to provide a blueprint for nurturing the human potential. According to the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ human potential is not something one is born with but something that has to be shaped throughout one’s life course. Contrary to popular belief‚ having a high IQ or a lucky break are good opportunities to have‚ however‚ they do not
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little things make a big difference”. The author‚ Malcolm Gladwell argues that immediate environment influences people’s behavior. Based on this‚ the author presents evidence and ultimately argues that readers could modify their behavior with small changes and these could have positive or negative results. In addition to this direct support‚ Gladwell tries to indirectly advance his argument by using a number of persuasive strategies. Gladwell specifically mentions a piece of evidence to support
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Tyler Alford 7 December 2011 Prof. Smith Outliers Final Draft Outliers Final Draft In the book Outliers author Malcolm Greenwell talks about a variety of topics that deal with how success is obtained by individuals who are blessed to have many different opportunities. They range from a school designed for students to excel‚ to being financially wealthy‚ or even being in the right place at the right time. Many different types of examples of people who found success through opportunities laid
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people would give up on after thirty seconds... In the book “Outliers”‚ Malcolm Gladwell discusses some specific factors of extraordinary achievement. Some of the main ideas he discusses is advantages to succeed in life. According to Gladwell‚ there are tremendous advantages people have over their competitors to meet opportunities. In examining what made outliers like Bill Gates and the Beatles such phenomenal successes‚ Gladwell hits upon the important role played by opportunity. In each case‚ these
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that talent comes from innate abilities and these abilities allow for little training to be needed to be successful. He talks about how our biological image can carry us to success. In Outliers: The Story of Success another non-fiction text by Malcolm Gladwell‚ he tells that talent comes from the number of hours practiced‚ specifically 10‚000 hours‚ and gives very good evidence with experts and studies to support his claim. Both stories gave great evidence
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Microeconomics 2200 December 6th‚ 2013 Outliers There were many important concepts Gladwell listed. His book focused on six main points: opportunity‚ timing‚ ten-thousand hours‚ meaningful work and legacy. The two main focuses of his concepts were Opportunity and Legacy. I believe he chose those two because when and where you are affect a situation but how you approach it is the battery charge for the situation. Gladwell describes how when opportunity presents itself you should seize it. After doing
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The Sports Gene‚ and Malcolm Gladwell‚ Author of Outliers: The Story of Success‚ have different positions on the subject. The excerpt from The Sports Gene is about the athlete Donald Thomas who was gifted with genes that allow him to do well in high-jump. The excerpt from Outliers: The Story of Success is about research done to determine what difference practice makes in people’s success. In response to the question‚ how much of what happens in our lives do we control‚ Gladwell does a better job supporting
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