From The Past To The Present Gladwell Analysis

Opposing historians argue that the American Revolution is classified as a contradiction to the true qualities of a revolution. Interpreted from the class lecture regarding the AR , a revolution consist of, but is not limited to the following: Complete social reorganization such that the bottom and top of society assume their opposing position, must enact the societal transformation, and the struggle of a revolution must be bloody, gruesome, and vicious. It is assumed that the abundance of the aforementioned qualities culminate to a Revolution. A revolution is synonymous to a mutiny, revolt, or uprising; historians further argue the AR lacks such revolutionary elements. Examples of a revival of this magnitude are those

The main argument of the Gladwell in this article is that social media is not effective in “high-risk” activism because it lacks strong bonds and hierarchical command structure. Although he agrees that social media can bring a “limited” change which has far less consequences than the “high risk” activism and do not require a higher level of commitment. He thinks that social media is not an effective enemy of status quo.

When thinking of successful people you automatically think about how hard people have worked to be successful. In the Outliers book "Malcolm Gladwell" argues that we should look at the world that surrounds successful people. For instance their culture, family, experiences, and their upbringing. Gladwell has made an interesting argument about how people become successful. In this paper, I will be talking about how Bradley Byrne, US Representative for Alabama became successful using some information from Gladwell’s arguments.

However, at the same time, he claims that the powerless cannot achieve anything without the help from the big guy. He believes that any type of movement that uses social media as its main platform simply cannot have a “leader” and can never have a strong strategy. Gladwell’s argument is extremely one sided. The majority of the points he claims are all the postives of activism before social media and the few times he brings up activism on social media, it is incredibly negative. His main point is that social media is the weaker platform because it is simple and fast. It allows people to think that they are helping and becoming a part of a movement simply because they clicked a

Extra Credit: In this chapter, Gladwell does address and disprove a counterargument that everyone came from hardworking hunter-gatherers. Gladwell disproves this by showing that hunter-gathers diet was largely “a rich assortment of fruits, berries, roots, and nuts” (Gladwell 233) which isn’t that difficult to find. They didn’t grow crops, nor raise animals, so they never had any hard work that needed to get done. This shows that not everyone has the same hard working background that the Asians do, and their ore each culture grows different individuals that show different

Every individual has a unique and distinct personality that allows them to experience the world in their own way. However, despite our differences, people often share similar episodes with other members of society, which would imply that the social or physical environment around us has a powerful effect on the perceptions humans create. With this in mind, it is important to understand that the awareness of our environment is often dictated by biases comparable to an author writing his own story. This concept is first explored in Malcolm Gladwell’s, “The Power of Context”, where the author discusses how the social environment that a person comes from plays an essential role in shaping their behavior. Tim O’Brien offers a different perspective

Gladwell pick up a Canadian youth hockey team in 2007. Also, he tells about Rpger Barnesly who is a Canadian Psychologist. He noticed that most of the players were born in January, February and march. On the other hand, few player on the team born between October and December. This is happening in other teams either. Gladwell was fill in the date of birth instead of the name even major hockey tournament.

Memes that are spread throughout the internet allegedly become successful, because the internet is a global network that connects millions of people around the world to link and exchange their ideas, opinions, and information. Through the internet it will be easily accessible for memes to be copied, spread and to be successful. Nonetheless, Malcolm Gladwell stated the internet and the social media are nothing compared to the sit-in movement, and considered the internet and the social media as weak ties and a disorganized network. To add on according to the essay, “Small Change”, Gladwell included that, “Social networks are effective at increasing participation---by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires” (138). On the other hand, in the essay, “Strange Creatures”, Susan Blackmore asserts that, “Memes spread themselves around indiscriminately without regard to whether they are useful,

In the passage Gladwell talks about how there is a pattern and it is quite clear but no one seems to recognize it but that has to do with the fact that unless someone does the research or has read his book. People won’t and don’t notice the pattern as much as he thinks they would. Gladwell is blaming and once again calling people out on how themselves and society doesn’t give the people and place any credit. In the passage Gladwell states “Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up” and I truly believe he is not giving them enough credit. However they did have some advantages based on when they were born and where they grew up, nevertheless they did have to put in some hard work. Gladwell

Gladwell writes in this passage about how the way people think can be crazy and altered based on where they come from. People might disagree with this and he brings that up saying “ we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different cultural groups” and far point to bring up. However he knows and isn’t afraid to say statements a little out there. Gladwell in his writing I have noticed brings up points that people don’t also want to or even recognize. He bring up honor which can be wounded very easily just as easy as people’s pride. Another thing people don’t like to talk about unless they are boasting about it but when it is hurt blood will be shed. Which is in fact deranged to think that people can’t put away

This chapter revolved around what leads to the success of certain people. First, Gladwell analyzes the key factor to the success of hockey players: their birthdays. The birthday theory states that children born immediately after the cutoff date of a specific sport or activity have a greater chance of being successful in that specific field, because they are bigger, stronger and smarter than their peers due to the increase of age. This advantage can be career-changing yet it is not the only deciding factor of success. Obviously, talent and passion is the foundation to success; the birthday theory just broadens the chances of an individual’s success.

Is cultural legacy to blame for the death of 228 passengers on board the 1997 Korean Air Flight 801 as explored by Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell? I agree with Gladwell that cultural legacies are powerful and persistent, as seen in Korean Air’s tarnished history. Although some cultural legacies are more impactful than others in terms of a person’s probability of success, at least a portion of someone’s many cultural legacies most likely have a great impact on their achievements. Therefore, a person’s cultural legacy should always, to some degree, be factored into a person’s chance of success.

Gladwell supports his argument regarding power with, the strong is not always what they seem, people jump to conclusions way too often, and powerful

In his previous book, Malcolm Gladwell coined the phrase ‘tipping point’, meaning the moment when an idea or concept suddenly becomes popular within the general populace, and in his following book, he gives us the term Outliers which means something that lies outside of the normal or the expected. In his book Blink, Gladwell provides us with two more phrases; thin-slicing and blink. To ‘blink’ is to act without thinking, working on split second decisions to make choices. Thin-slicing is using the small amount of information that is known to come to a conclusion without further searching for more information. According to Gladwell, snap judgements often provide better decisions than well informed, over-analysed ones, which is ironic in our generation of information overload.

Gladwell views social media as a separate being from social change. He argues social media brings participation, but not motivation, which does not accurately respond to the way social activism is heard. By his definition, social activism is a face to face, up and around action that actually strives to make a personal, hands on difference to an environment or topic. To support his opinion, he tells a story of a phone search gone wild in which social media sparked the interest of 25,00 people to stalk a girl to find one “expensive” phone and have it returned safely. Gladwell points out that this is in no way activism to change an opinion, or start a revolution to make a change, simply a goose chase for something trivial. Gladwell, however,