Gladwell Summary

Criminal case is always tedious when it involves little or no information about the offender, like in the 9/11 terrorist attack which annihilated most of the workers in and damaged the New York Trade Center building. However, in an attempt to identify the offenders, government officials and investigators try out different ways such as criminal profiling and others. Thus, in the New Yorker article, “Dangerous Minds” by Malcolm Gladwell; the author informs the deeper problems with FBI profiling and argues that it is ineffective. He questions the usefulness of criminal profiling, “But how useful is that profile, really?” and uses other criminal cases, group research analyses, and analogies to refute

Example Two - Two families in Harlan, the Howards and Turners, put small town on map, because

This essay reflects the issues presented in Gladwell's "The Trouble with Geniuses" parts 1 and 2. You will hear my thoughts on what I believe was Gladwell's purpose for writing both parts of "The Trouble with Geniuses," who is his audience and why, and the approaches he takes to address us as readers. This essay will follow with my thoughts on the argument behind "Geniuses," how Gladwell contextualizes his arguments, what contextual perspective did Gladwell take for both chapters, and whether I agree or disagree with Gladwell's idea and why.

Can one change the world? It only takes one, who will it be? It's difficult to understand the world and comprehend how many people inhabit it. Possibly changing the world, sounds crazy. Everyone has the ability too, but no one believes in themselves enough. Everyone is guilty of belittling themselves, comparing themselves to others. Which overall lowers one's confidence and creates the perception of a fixed mindset. Although the world isn't the intimating and untouchable place, it's perceived to be. In reality, the universe is a blank canvas filled with unique and mesmerizing people. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell looks at several social epidemics and analyzes the build-up to when everything tips. “Tipping” is the point where an epidemic blooms or grows, to its greatest potential. Gladwell

Through an adage, Gladwell also provides a general truth, stating that “The sense of entitlement…is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world.” This allows him to appeal logically

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’s article was very interesting to read and it was a very motivational article, its general message being that the underdogs can win if they play their own game. His thesis is that effort trumps power and he shows his evidence through multiple stories. The first story he uses is about a basketball team who didn’t know how to play basketball and learn how to win consistently by playing a full court press. The second is an example of a battle in a war, where Lawrence and his army attack at the tracks, a weak spot, instead of attacking the strong point of the city. The third is the Bible story of David and Goliath, when David faced the massive Goliath with only a slingshot and five stones and was victorious. The final story that he uses

The message that “Blink” conveys is a topic called thin slicing, that is, decision making made in the moment without much information or thought. Gladwell uses multiple scientific experimental cases and real life experiences to show how thin slices affects us and how we can tell more about a situation from a couple seconds rather than long periods of time.

There is not any guarantee that the friends on Facebook will support or help others in a situation. People are not exposed to witnessing any situation online through a computer screen, which results in technology to be consider a low-risk activism. Technology is a virtual place for users to meet people all the world, which distracts users from feeling lonely. Technology is a place for social communication over a computer screen whereas, civil right moments is a place where people bond. People communicate with one other to express and show their passion for what they are working for. Through hierarchical groups, people set clear goals and work together to complete the goals as one team. People create special bonds, but people can also create strong bonds through technology.

Gladwell states that an important key to become successful is by demographic luck which is when you happen to be in a situation that you did not necessarily knew it would happen, but you have the chance to take advantage of that situation. This usually opens many doors in someone’s future where many become successful. Someone does not choose to be lucky, it just happens. Someone does not simply wake up and become successful all of a sudden. There are many public figures who we know as successful persons that have achieved their goals on their own and we view them as role models, but there is a truth behind someone’s success.

Gladwell provided an example of successful revolution in the past when there was no existence of social media and some current examples when social media like Facebook and Twitter were popular in most of people's daily life while they were not as useful as they were claimed to be so in the revolution. By listing these examples, the author would like to to support his statement that social media is ineffective in revolution. The first example is the revolution against the racial discrimination in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960. The revolution started with the sit-in protest of four college students in a lunch counter. It is a typical and successful example of revolution without the help of social media. The revolution grew quickly that it

We act a certain way around our peers, family, coworkers, and even pets. The same holds true for different environmental settings. We may swear while in the comfort of our own home but will keep the obscenities to a minimum in public. The concept, that we change our behavior to fit our settings, is described in Gladwell’s essay – “The Power of Context.” In this essay, Gladwell asserts that the actions of people are exacerbated by their immediate environment and may even trump our previous experiences.

In the chapter eight, Gladwell asserts that students from eastern countries have a better math skill than students from western countries is due to hard working and practice. Gladwell argues the attitudes on hard working and practice could trace back to the differences in agriculture. China is a county with high demand on rice, but majority Chinese farmers cannot afford of equipment to help them plan the corps, so they have use human labors to improve their yields by calculating their time and manage the water levels, fertilization, and harvest time (Gladwell 233). However, farmers from western countries do not have the chance to practice their math skill because they could afford of the equipment to help them plan about the corps. Therefore,

I think the title of this book means a diary that Gladwell dedicated to writing about the problems that he has encountered and his studies were done and their results. It describes the full range of steps to help him find the answers to these questions in his mind about the important issues that has no previous answers. For me, it is the best title for the book because although only a word but it carries many meanings. I cannot think any better tittle than it.

However, in the absence of collective outcry and tangible solutions, it would be more accurate to say that we, as a society, have become numb to the pain. President Obama sounds more like Prophet Amos than a statesman when he bemoans our religious platitude that fails to act: "Our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It 's not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel, and it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America -- next week, or a couple months from now."