by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. (pg. 19) a. Malcom Gladwell wrote this book to show that “Rags to Riches” stories have more to them than just hard work and a good personality‚ he tells the reader that success is the product of cultures‚ opportunities‚ and many other hidden advantages. Not just one man
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presented in a book titled Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell’s book presents a rule called the 10‚000-hour rule. The rule inspired at least a few other individuals to write their own works countering his argument. A specific example of a counter argument is David Bradley’s
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Author of the Tipping point‚ David and Goliath‚ Malcolm Gladwell in his self help book Outliers published November 18‚ 2008 addresses the topic of class advantages from a study by Annette Lareau and argues about the necessity of cultural advantage and the role it plays in determining success. He supports this claim with the use of rhetorical strategies such as Description‚ compare and contrast and the use of cause and effects. Gladwell’s purpose in this excerpt is to tell the readers that class
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The story Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is described to be a “story of success”; in fact those are the exact words on the cover of the book. I would consider this book more of a story that is not only describing success‚ but how people that became successful were able to do it in the first place. Overall‚ this book gives extraordinary background stories on how people that many of us look up today‚ started out as just regular human beings like you and me. This book is a magnificent source of motivation
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the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don’t matter at all‚” Gladwell argues that these extraordinary people “reached their lofty status through a combination of ability‚ opportunity and utterly arbitrary advantage.” Gladwell uses the Beatles’ early career to describe how the only way to be “successful” is to practice ten thousand hours. According to Gladwell‚ Bill Gates’ intelligence and privileged upbringing can certainly not be denied‚ but that is not what
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Think about it Malcom Gladwell defines connectors in his book “Tipping Point” as: “These people connect ideas and concepts. Their social networks are 100 people or more. They can often reach across industries and other traditional socioeconomic boundaries.” Whether we agree with Gladwell’s revolutionary concepts or not‚ we cannot deny it changed the way we think. If we want to translate Gladwell’s term “connectors” to a much simpler word‚ it would be “ the middle man.” For centuries‚ people created
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Award‚” but I got neither. My mother said those students were at least two years older than me‚ so they had more time to practice more than I did. I did not really understand what my mother meant until I read chapter one of the book‚ “Outliers” written by Malcom Gladwell. The first chapter of the book introduced me to the “Matthew Effect.” This effect is a phenomenon
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In the book‚ Outliers‚ Malcom Gladwell expresses situations in different people’s lives through statistics and probability. This book focuses on the “Outliers” of the world‚ these people are the smartest‚ most successful‚ and well achieved human beings. He describes how we pay too much attention to what successful people. We observe minor things like and how they live‚ and not enough attention to their background‚ their culture‚ their family‚ their generation‚ and the way they live‚ and their upbringing
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The 10‚000-hour rule‚ popularized by Malcolm Gladwell‚ is considered a key to success. Though hard work is necessary for mastering something‚ do we really need to spend 10‚000 hours or is there more to this than Gladwell presented in his book Outliers? With further research it was found that 10‚000 hours is not the end all be all for mastery. In fact‚ Gladwell was wrong because he oversimplified what is necessary for mastery and the amount of work people need to put in by a long shot. In chapter
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Sociology-Family Page 1. Family A family is “a set of people related by blood‚ marriage or some other agreed-upon relationship‚ or adoption‚ who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.” (Schaefer‚ 2009) A family is considered a social institution. This social institution is one that can be applied to all three sociological theories which are functionalism‚ conflict‚ and interactionism. The first sociological theory is functionalism. A functionalism
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