Choice‚ Happiness‚ and Spaghetti Sauce was a well thought-out brain teaser type of video. Author and writer Malcom Gladwell introduces the audience to the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce‚ but ends up making a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness in a comical yet intelligent manor on TEDTalk. Gladwell uses his friend and Psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz’s crazy idea with Pepsi‚ and breakthrough formula for success with Vlasic Pickles and Prego spaghetti sauce
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Genuine Relationships: The Impact of Technology on Society in Sherry Turkle and Malcolm Gladwell Technology has a great impact on our authenticity of a relationship because many people have no concern for the person on the other end. When one has a face to face conversation with someone‚ body language and facial expressions show the person’s emotions. One can represent love‚ hope‚ fear‚ or happiness in an eye to eye conversion‚ but in terms of texting one cannot show real emotions. In Sherry Turkle’s
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Examining the American Dream through a Dystopian Lens Meritocracy: the idea that success is achieved through talent and hard work. When it comes to the pursuit of happiness‚ most Americans would fervently affirm that everyone deserves an equal chance at prosperity. That is the “American Dream” after all; a land of social mobility with no barrier to success. Where this agreement usually ends‚ however‚ is on the nature of this equality. Whereas some are convinced that equal opportunity is just‚ others
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Contagious Emotions‚ Chapter 2‚ pages 84-86 Gladwell packs a lot of information into Chapter 2‚ explaining the characteristics of Connectors‚ Mavens‚ and Salesmen. The first two terms are a bit unfamiliar‚ but the third is something that every reader can identify immediately: a Salesman. However common a Salesman may seem‚ Gladwell breaks open the unexplored makeup of these persuasive personas and expands on their traditional image‚ explaining the reasons why successful Salesmen have their customers
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people who lost their sight when they were young; as a result‚ most of them were able to heighten various senses such as visual imagery‚ hearing‚ or touch. On the same hand‚ Malcolm Gladwell also discusses how sensitively people respond to the changes of their physical conditions in his text. In The Power of Context‚ Gladwell shows how easily individuals can be influenced by their environment through
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discourse‚ ordinary citizens often utilize social media‚ which has gradually become an integral part of society. As part of the “Doubt” camp‚ authors such as Malcolm Gladwell and Matthew Hindman believe ordinary citizens fall short in affecting change and doubt the effectiveness of social media to influence society in the long run. Gladwell and Hindman believe that ordinary citizens‚ in comparison to professional journalists‚ fail to produce immediate change. Authors like Clay Shirky and Zeynep Tufecki
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Katy Perry: Road to Success Katy Perry is an extraordinary singer with a great voice. She grew up in Santa Barbara‚ California not being able to listen to pop music with a religious family‚ both parents being pastors. She expresses herself in a way that tells her life story through music. She inspires many‚ saying that we don’t have to be like everyone else‚ that being weird is okay. Katy Perry’s music is unique following her personality and charisma‚ having a way of making people smile and enjoy
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Gladwell attributes human behavior to what he believes is quite a radical idea. In his article‚ he searches to discover what causes behaviors to “stick” or become pervasive‚ and at what point a government or organization becomes able to make a societal change
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notions of a revolution. “Decisions are made through consensus‚ and the ties that bind people to the group are loose.”(Gladwell 139) Gladwell believes that social media ruins activism because people on the Internet are cowardly hiding behind their laptop screens instead of facing issues head on. If Gladwell would learn to use social media he might find that he will like it. When Gladwell tells the story of someone who got their phone stolen and through social media‚ they got it back. This shows “the
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the Tipping Point.” (9) CHAPTER ONE takes us through THE THREE RULES OF EPIDEMICS. Using the examples of syphilis in Baltimore‚ the craze of Hush Puppies shoes‚ the contagiousness of yawning‚ a few advertising slogans‚ and bystander experiments‚ Gladwell sums his course. “These three agents of change I call the Law of the Few‚ the Stickiness Factor‚ and the Power of Context.” (19) “When it comes to epidemics‚ [the disproportionality of the 80/20 Principle] becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage
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