prestigious backgrounds‚simple lives of less fortunate can also contribute to the level of success one can achieve in life.Success is greatly influenced by one’s lifestyle and background because they motivate one to strive for change like Malcolm Gladwell‚ who advocated the importance of underdogs‚the poem “if” with the theme of success and the eminent writer‚shakespeare’s famous quote which provides germane details on the impact of one’s background that defines complete success in life.Success is
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In the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the central theory that Gladwell presents is that often the decisions and observations made in only a split-second‚ in the blink of the eye‚ are better than decisions which are made after extensive thought. To present and justify this idea Gladwell describes the lives of several people who make‚ or have made‚ important snap decisions with a high level of success or failure. He then explains the logic behind each story and relates it back to his original principle
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9/16/12 Eng ap. In Esther Burr’s journal entry on‚ May 1‚ 1742‚ the ten year old girl documents a particular outing with her father‚ through the wilderness. She has a very deep respect for her father‚ so when she gets the chance to travel to “the spring wood” with him she could not be happier. Her use of language‚ including; diction and imagery‚ the manner in which she talks about the knowledge she gained that day‚ and of course how she looks up to her father reveals just how cherished this outing
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“Literacy behind Bars” “Literacy behind Bars is a narrative that is taken from “The Auto-biography of Malcom X.” In it‚ he explains how being incarcerated gave him the oppritunity to expand his vocabulary and help foster his love for reading. Like many people in prison‚ he spent time reading books‚ the issue was that many of the words in the books he did not understand. He decided to expand his vocabulary and each day copied a page from the dictionary by hand and then read it aloud to himself. By
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Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell discusses the subjective nature of human perspectives. It illustrates how different individuals can interpret the same historical event in diverse ways based on their unique experiences and positions. This subjectivity suggests that our understanding of events is inherently limited‚ making some aspects of truth potentially unknowable. First‚ in the "The Foot Soldier of Birmingham" episode of Revisionist History‚ Malcolm Gladwell discusses how individuals’ perspectives
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Within Gladwell’s books the prevalent theme of the little things comes up constantly. The Tipping Point being the book where it prevails the most. Gladwell believes that the little things define most of the outcome in life. When he begins the book he starts off with mentioning that economists talk about “...the 80/20 principle… the idea that… 80% of the “work” will be done by 20% of the participants’’. In daily life it can be found that the 80/20 principle takes place for example a group project
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The Game Theory by Malcolm Gladwell‚ gives amazing insight into the world of professional sport statistics. Gladwell argues that athletic dominance in a team sport can’t always be seen by the eye. Allen Iverson‚ for instance‚ was the 2001-2002 NBA’s Most Valuable Player. He was viewed as one of the best basketball players of his generation. However an algorithm devised by David Berry‚ Martin Schmidt‚ and Stacey Brook‚ shows the true value of a basketball player by grading their number of wins they
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Malcolm’s Final Speech Shakespeare’s written work has stood the test of time and Macbeth is an excellent example of his classic literature. At the end of the play the final scene is about who will become the King of Scotland. After the death of Macbeth‚ Malcolm is declared King. He is declared King since it was his birthright because his father was King before Macbeth killed him. Shortly after he was declared as the new King‚ Malcolm makes a speech of acceptance. One can look at this passage
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Blink‚ by Malcolm Gladwell’s‚ discusses the idea of thin slicing‚ the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations from small samples. Gladwell also delves into the positive and negative effects of snap judgments and how people come to conclusions withoutbeing consciously aware of doing so. One topic of the book that intrigued me was the research of John Gottman and Paul Ekman. Gottman is a psychologist and professor who has spent most of his career studying interpersonal relationships
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In chapter “Wilma Derksen”‚ Malcolm Gladwell talks about different way of using power. There are two words that important to understand the chapter are “crime” and “repercussions”. The first word is crime; this word means an offensive action that may be prosecute by state. This chapter talks about the limit of power through the ways that people uses to react to crime. We can see this word repeats all over this chapter. The second word is repercussions; this word means a bad consequence occurring
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