Brain Candy by Malcolm Gladwell explore the idea that pop culture is making us smarter. Playing a simple video game or watching a modern television series can improve learning as much as reading a book. Video games are more intriguing than a book. “But these games withhold critical information from the player” (Gladwell 1). This illustrates that key information used in a video game is withheld and the player needs to problem solve to gain the answer. Modern television is more consuming and makes
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Today‚ America is seemingly defined by its popular culture which has become a major export to the whole wide world. The pop culture refers to all things that people usually do and talk about‚ manners and beliefs that make a society grow. The culture that is well accepted and followed by everybody in the society. For every place‚ there is always different style of culture that all people who lives there are subject to follow in able to fit in to that given place. America is one of the major countries
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Nur Fajrianti Review Journal : Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up? This journal is telling us about the fact that American people are getting smarter. That statement is based on American people’s I.Q. tests results which are rising about three points per decade by using the same standard score of I.Q. test that has been kept for years. This fact is uncovered by a political philosopher named James Flynn. Meanwhile‚ other people over the developed world also get better I.Q. test
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child’s mind? Malcolm Gladwell proposes in his article‚ “Brain Candy‚” that playing video games or watching television is just as important as reading a book. Gladwell is using rhetorical appeals to prove that in fact‚ video games are not dumbing down society. Pop culture is helping to improve test scores and knowledge. In “Brain Candy‚” Malcolm Gladwell does affectively use rhetorical appeals to convince his audience that pop culture is making our society smarter. First‚ Gladwell effectively appeals
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Major Companies of Candy Production in the US‚ August 2012 (Market Share) Other 44.30% Mars Inc. 35.30% The Hershey Company 20.40% IBISWorld Industry Report 31134 Candy Production in the US Mars. Inc. Mars Inc. Market share: 35.3% Industry Brand Names Wrigley Skittles Starburst Juicy Fruit Airwaves Freedent Orbit Eclipse Big Red Mars Inc.-financial performance Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012* *Estimate Revenue ($ million) 1‚800 2‚160 1‚908 2‚160 2‚232 2‚376 % change N/C 20
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The Thinkers 50: Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell is the writer of books and for New Yorker Magazine. His books are generally categorized under the category of “Self-improvement”. However‚ in my opinion‚ he is not one of that self-improvement trashes. You can see that he does really research for his books. Just take a look into his “cites”. Even this made him different them from those I called trash. He is not putting an exact way on you‚ he does not tell you what to do‚ as if you are beginning
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Malcolm Gladwell’s arguments center around an idea he calls “thin-slicing.” Thin-slicing is the concept that our unconscious can take lightning-quick bits of experiences and use preconceived notions about behaviors and situations to interpret them. Our unconscious thin-slices the world around us on a constantly– every person we meet or even already know we thin-slice. In times of panic‚ our brains rely on those split-second decisions based on what we have unconsciously observed. The reactions that
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less proficient and probably ‘dumber’ human being of the 21st Century” The current developments in technological devices‚ media‚ education systems‚ medication and foods have created a claim: that they are the main contributors to the dumbing down of the human species of the twenty first century. This claim has created a controversy where some people agreed or disagreed that the surge of these factors has been negatively affecting the intelligence of human beings. This controversy began
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society. This theory seems like reasonable and logical because it is quite natural that a person’s behavior follows his or her characters. Malcolm Gladwell‚ however‚ in his essay‚ “The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime‚” examines those factors affecting peoples’ behaviors and comes up with his own theory. Gladwell believes that the environmental conditions have the most significant influence on how one behaves. Throughout his essay‚ he presents a few different
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characterized as very conservative in its political and religious view. This part of the country is always referred as “bible belt” while the west coasts are more liberal in its view. Some communities such in California and Washington have a large “hippie culture” and New York has many urban areas which quite progressive on the whole. Attitudes are the way a person expresses or applies their values or beliefs. Its being expressed through words and behavior. To get to know about Americans life‚ there’s some
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