Minimal Wave The romance of the future‚ replaced by the romance of the past Minimal wave is a genre that is used to describe electronic and minimal forms of New Wave‚ Coldwave‚ Synthpop and Post-punk. It is a new phenomenon as the word minimal wave was not used until only 10 years ago‚ when a woman named Veronika Wasika founded the label Minimal Wave. Minimal wave was mostly made in the 1980s when synthesizers and drum-machines became accessible to the general public. The tracks recorded are usually
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Knowledge and intelligence are specific characteristic traits that can lead us to experiencing professional success. Suppose a child scores within the 135-140 range on an IQ test. People would assume that child will become successful in life based on their high IQ score. The question is‚ how are certain people able to succeed in life while others tend to struggle? Is it solely based off their intelligence or IQ? Opportunities? Race and culture? In Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Trouble with Geniuses‚ Part
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In Outliers: The Story of Success Chapter 3 and 4 “The Trouble with Geniuses 1 and 2 ” by Gladwell shows that two phenomenal genius person‚ but both are not the same. Langan and oppenheimer are alike and they both struggled in college. Langan was from very poor family‚ he did not had a lot and his father was alcoholic and mostly absent. Lagan got a full scholarship to Reed University‚ however‚ Langan was not adjusting well. He had a weakness on speaking in class‚ even though he knew most it. Then
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melodrama such as dramatic reversals of fortune‚ suspense and over-dramatic characters. The story is delivered as an old tale of good versus evil‚ the evil clearly represented by Oppenheimer‚ the Jew. Oppenheimer plays the devil’s advocate here by turning Germans against themselves. After being manipulated and influenced by Oppenheimer‚ even the duke eventually spots the snake in the grass and questions Remchingen ‘’Should an open feud break out between me and my Swabians?’’. What follows is the scene of
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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‚ such as: excuses‚ appearance‚ IQs‚ and Their stories will be compared with Harrison Bergeron’s life as another genius who is a fictional character. Christopher Langan is the world’s smartest
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The Trouble with Geniuses Part One: Although both Chris Langen and Robert Oppenheimer were both geniuses‚ Oppenheimer had better life chances and more opportunities than did Chris Langan. Oppenheimer was born in a wealthy and well-known family and was in an upper social class. Therefore he had a richer cultural capital than Chris Langan because his parents taught him how to deal with adults and how to assert himself. They also encouraged him to take chances. For instance‚ when he has an opportunity
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teenagers‚ who use their parents’ ability of purchasing expensive goods in order to stand out and show off in society. Those people usually claim: “Don’t underestimate my ability.” According to “Pamela: A Case Study in Status Symbols” by Franz Oppenheimer‚ Oppenheimer stated that status symbol is formed by the social anxiety (194). In other words‚ people are scared to be neglected in their peer groups. They keep buying branded products‚ which they think tell more about their existence. People keep following
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intermediary? How do these functions help expand the economic pie in the diamond industry? CSO stands for Central Selling Organisation. After Rhoodes flooded the market with diamond inventory and therefore decreased its price‚ Ernest Oppenheimer founded the CSO (1930). Oppenheimer believed that by limiting the quantity of diamonds put on the market the stability of the diamond trade could be maintained. The function of the CSO is to stimulate and control the demand for diamonds. These functions help
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to assert themselves. 2. Gladwell uses anecdotes and statistics to support his argument. He compares the life stories of two similar men‚ Chris Langan and Robert Oppenheimer‚ who ended up in very different positions towards the end of their lives. Langan‚ the less successful of the two‚ comes from a lower-class family and Oppenheimer‚ the more successful‚ comes from a high-class family. Both men’s upbringings affected their professional lives profoundly. In this chapter‚ Gladwell also supports his
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Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing. In this 2012 documentary‚ Oppenheimer attempts to understand a shocking phenomenon: the fact that the same men who systematically killed thousands of communists in the 1960s are now revered by their countrymen‚ celebrated as national heroes. Furthermore‚ Oppenheimer intends to hold the U.S. Government accountable for their role in these killings and in 2014‚ after the film was aired before the U.S. Congress; Oppenheimer formally requested that the U.S. acknowledge its role
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