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    Offensive Play by Malcolm Gladwell Kyle Turley‚ a determined N.F.L offensive lineman from Nashville who played for 9 years. This position in football was a very dangerous one due to problems with your heads. His head was hit over and over again. The results of his head being hurt numerous times led to him experiencing black outs‚ dizziness‚ or even unconsciousness. He would sometimes overdue it because he would be so frustrated. Although after experiencing such harm this scares him now because

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    Josh Brown RDG 093 November 27‚ 2012 The author of the article‚ “Offensive Play” is Malcolm Gladwell. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine‚ and has published four books. “Offensive Play” was published in the October 19th‚ 2009 edition. The New Yorker began February 21‚ 1925‚ and is now published forty-seven times annually. It focuses on arts‚ culture‚ politics‚ sports‚ medicine‚ etc. Anything enticing the wealthy‚ middle-class and metropolitan is what it is geared towards. In

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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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    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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    Success is an informative book by Malcolm Gladwell dealing with the topic of human success. The book talks about outliers or “men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary.” by Malcolm Gladwell. In Gladwell’s book‚ he mentions that most humans believe that the successful people in the world are “self-made” but that isn’t completely true. The overall theme of the book is that successful human beings don’t rise up from nothing. There are many factors that play into being successful. We seem

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    “...If you work hard enough and assert yourself‚ and use your mind and imagination‚ you can shape the world to your desires.” In the book ’outliers’ by Malcolm GladwellGladwell States that there is no such thing as a self made person. That if you succeed in life it depends on who you are and where you came from. I disagree with this statement for the reason that‚ although this may be occasionally correct‚ mostly it isn’t true . There are many people who have created success for themselves and

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    figures in history? And most of all; how? Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Outliers: The Story of Success”‚ suggests many theories and explanations on how one can become an “outlier” of society by analyzing the triumphs and failures of the people and events that we know very best. Gladwell goes about this book by bringing success down to something that is most relatable in every human. Life. Not just escaping death‚ but living a full and healthy life. Success‚ as Gladwell explains it‚ has a systematic solution

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    look like but the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ of the book‚ Outliers‚ The Story of Success‚ defines it by the book. It says‚ “Something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body. A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.” Gladwell uses this definition as a baseline for the rest of his intriguing book. Gladwell gives us plenty of examples of known outliers in the world and through them Gladwell tells the secrets in becoming

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    had to be the reason that poor immigrants like Andrew Carnegie and college dropouts like Bill Gates achieved unimaginable wealth. Most of us were taught that working harder than anyone else would lead to ultimate success. While the author‚ Malcolm Gladwell‚ does not dispute that hard work in a necessary component‚ we learn that many factors‚ lucky breaks‚ and some coincidences all occur in making high achievers into true outliers. We also learn that many of the richest‚ most famous‚ and most successful

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