Johnnie Cochran: An Outlier By: Ryan Starr Johnnie Cochran was an infamous American lawyer‚ who gained recognition from his highly publicized and controversial cases as a successful defense attorney. Born as an African-American on October 2‚ 1937 in Shreveport‚ Louisiana‚ Cochran grew up facing extreme racial prejudice and learned valuable life experience at a young age (Cochran Biography 1). Turning a deaf ear to discrimination‚ Cochran did well in school and got good grades. His father and
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pay and treatment for field workers. Malcolm Gladwell‚ author of Outliers‚ believes in six key components that make an outlier successful: abilities‚ opportunities‚ passion‚ ten-thousand hours‚ cultural advantage‚ and community. Cesar Chavez maintained all of these elements of abilities and opportunities‚ passion and ten-thousand hours‚ as well as cultural advantage and community to complete his goal for field workers‚ which made him a successful outlier. Cesar’s had many abilities and opportunities
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Guided Reading Questions: The Outliers Introduction “The Roseto Mystery”: 1. What is the Roseto Mystery? What overarching idea is Gladwell establishing in his introduction? The author in the novel explains the concept of the Roseto Mystery to be a phenomenal time in history. During the 1950’s where the leading cause of death in the United States was a heart attack in men under the age of 65‚ In Roseto the remarkable discovery was that you ”rarely [found] anyone from Roseto under the age of sixty-five
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spent deliberately practicing. The study resulted in finding that on average they only spend 3‚000 hours practicing deliberately (O’Sullivan). Athletics just don’t work the same as other subjects like games. This rule should’ve been made clear in Outliers that it only applies to certain areas of expertise. Deliberate practice only accounts for 18% of skills in sports (Hambrick). Sports are different in the sense that it has to do with people’s physical abilities‚ while other things like games are
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families fight with one another in identical little towns up and down the same mountain range‚ it’s a pattern.” (Outliers‚ p.249) However‚ Gladwell only mentions Scotch-Irish descents‚ in which he believes their herding cultural heritage allowed them to respond to threats more than agriculture people. The Scotch-Irish was a big part of migration to the south‚ and this is why Gladwell believes this heritage is tied to Southern culture today. “This thesis is limited‚ however‚ by modern evidence that
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what winning means… you’re willing to go longer‚ work harder‚ give more than anyone else.”(Lombardi). The famous NFL coach‚ Vince Lombardi agrees that hard work will lead people to accomplishing their goals‚ just like how Malcolm Gladwell points it out in his book‚ Outliers and Paul Tough who wrote in an article for the New York Times. Tadas Bartkus who is an engineer‚ researcher on jet engine icing for NASA and he has also discovered what it means to be successful‚ and that’s hard work. Success is
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In chapter 8‚ the writer Gladwell mainly talks about the relationship between peasants planted the rice paddy and Asian children are good at math. Peasants in China are very hard working because they worked from dawn to noon in order to plant the rice paddy. They are hardworking because they spent three thousand years on planting the rice paddy without any leisure time. For planting the rice‚ they built a dike to provide water for the paddy and also gave the nutrition for them. But‚ you must carefully
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example‚ Oprah Winfrey has been quoted as saying‚ “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” Oprah Winfrey has the innate understanding that luck isn’t really luck at all. In fact‚ luck is the culmination of hard work. Malcolm Gladwell‚ in his book Outliers: The Story of Success states “…If you work hard enough and assert yourself‚ and use your mind and imagination‚ you can shape the world to your desires. (151)” The
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Malcom Gladwell is a very powerful speaker man that has plenty to say on a varity of topics. However‚ when he chooses to speak he uses many ways of expressing himself to grab and keep his audiences attention without having doubt about what he is saying by the end of his speech. Gladwell‚ in the speech on school shootings is very convincing. There are three main devices he used in order to get his point across which is reasoning‚ emotion‚ and credibility. Here I will be explaining how he has come
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Outliers‚ RR#10 1. Citation: Gladwell‚Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little‚ Brown and Company‚ 2008. Pp. 177-200. 2. Summary: First two parts of chapter seven tells that Korean airlines have a high rate of crashing. According to the record‚ the loss rete for Korean Air in the period 1988 to 1998 was more than seventeen times higher than in the same period of United Airlines. But it turned itself around since 1999. In 2006‚ Air Transport World gave the Phoenix Award Korean
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