The Night Of Mystery, Hope, And Magic

Furthermore, Gladwell’s tone and style of writing throughout Outliers contributes to his arguments’ effectiveness. The manner in which Gladwell tells the stories in relation to each individual claim is brilliant. Not only is the writing tone of the author informative, thoughtful, and compelling, but it is also frequently conversational. Many times in Outliers, Gladwell seems to be speaking directly to his readers. The author achieves this conversational tone primarily by asking questions within his arguments. In The 10,000-Hour Rule chapter, Gladwell applies this tone when he asks, “What’s ten years?” The author is challenging the reader to determine what significance ten years has in relation to success. Unknowingly challenged, the reader searches for an explanation within his or her own thoughts before continuing reading. The author answers his own question, “It [ten years] is roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice” (41). Gladwell also uses a conversational style of writing by including a personal touch within the epilogue, A Jamaican Story. “That is the story of my mother’s path to success,” writes the author (272). With this statement, Gladwell is opening up a personal revelation to the reader in a way

Elie's struggle with his faith to God is a major internal conflict he has with him self in the book Night. In the beginning of the book, his faith in God is completly untoched. When questiond about his faith and why he would pray to God, he ask, “Why did I pray? Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”( Winsel Pg 2) His belief in a powerful and able God is untouched, and he cannot think of living without his faith in his religions practices, as it has been one of the main guides in his life. But this faith he has is shaken by his experience during the Holocaust and the events that took place, what he lives and what he sees.

Yu writes that a young 5-year-old girl “weeps in a city without care./Without anyone to save her from her sins [...], exposed to beatings, not knowing that such behavior is normal” (Yu Lines 7-8). Due to the child’s very young age, readers can assume that her loss of innocence must have been influenced by external pressures from the media and society. As this child weeps in the middle of an ignorant city of people, she feels conflicted because of her inability to define reality; she is aware of the presence of dangers in the world, but is unable to let go of her childhood memories involving fun and happiness. The young child now understands “the concept of no magic, and that the fairytale is dead [...] [Similarly,] this princess knows nothing of childhood./But rather the bitter sorrows of the darkened morrow” (Yu Lines 16-18).

"That was a wonderful story, you are an excellant story teller." Belle beamed at him.

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his book “Night,” survived through some of the harshest conditions mankind has ever seen. Separated from his mother and sisters at the Auschwitz concentration camp, he and his dad had to keep each other alive while they were being held captive by the Nazi’s. Elie had to manage to survive off of little food, forced labor, and other inhumane living conditions. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, is affected by the events in this book by losing faith, becoming less sympathetic, and changing emotionally.

Ryan Lewis is such a fan of Gladwell’s book, Outliers, that he has a tattoo on his forearm displaying Gladwell’s concept of “10,000 hours.” The idea is that it takes 10,000 hours of practice and hard work to master something. Lewis says that he has done this by committing himself to producing from a young age.

A debate has been ongoing about Malcolm Gladwell’s “The 10,000 Hour Rule”. Jared Sandman argues in “ Write. Rewrite. Repeat.” to forget the 10,000 rule and to try his 1,000 day rule, and Cory Turner argues in “Practice Makes Possible” that you are not born with talent and most at a young age be taught. Sandmen writes in his article “write, rewrite, repeat” and Cory Turner writes in his article “Practice Makes Possible” both comment about the 10,000 by Gladwell. Both authors are trying to reach a level of trust, emotion and reasoning. Sandman is more rhetorically effective because he establishes his credibility by stating the amount of time he puts into one book before he puts it to publish, cites convincing empirical evidence, and elicited

In the second chapter of his book “Outliers: The Story of Success,” Malcolm Gladwell introduces what he believes to be a key ingredient in the recipe for success: practice. The number of hours he says one must practice to obtain expert-level proficiency in a particular skill is ten thousand hours. He goes on to list several examples of successful individuals and makes the correlation between the amount of hours they practiced their skill and when they achieved expert-level proficiency (almost always around ten thousand hours of practice). While the magic number appears to be the main focus of the chapter when it comes to success, Gladwell seems to put more emphasis on the advantage and opportunities each individual experienced. However, I

The 10,000 hour rule in Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers” states that ”...ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class-expert--- in anything.” I disagree with this statement, but if I were to change it so that it was more agreeable, I would change it so that it would say, “...to most people, ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the possibility of becoming a world class-expert-- in anything.” Evidence of astronauts who became experts under 10,000 hours, comedians’ god given natural humor, and evidence of exceptional soccer players and volleyball players’ heights all show why Malcolm Gladwell’s “ten thousand hours” isn’t completely true.

Carlo Ginzburg’s Night Battles depicts the relationships that existed concerning magic and the use of witchcraft as they where believed by both the popular and the elite concerning the benandanti in the Italian area of Friuli. Keith Thomas’ Religion and the Decline of Magic does a similar thing except his subject area is in the whole of England and includes more information and examples of the beliefs and practices of the English. Both the English account and the account of the Friuli benandanti have several similarities that exist between the two as well as some distinct differences. The differences between the two groups are shown by the way

Twelve year old Sonja Haack is out wandering the streets of London at a very late hour. The wind blowing her long blonde hair. Her blue eyes glimmering in the light of the moon.She is running through the deep, dark woods with Luna the 1 year old dachshund.When Luna and Sonja get back to their little house she calls out to her mum in an indoor voice, just loud enough to hear from the top floor,;

RUN! GO NOW!” Ava screamed as she was pushing Mia. They both rushed up the stairs and swung open the door at the top as the big, heavy, door that creaked when you opened it. The door leaded to the outside of the big creepy house. It was like a dog chasing a cat. Ava lived right next door so all they had to do was hop the fence and they were safe. Ava pulled herself up and leaped over the fence so fast like she had done that a million times before. and was perfectly safe but Mia was stuck. “Come on Mia! They are right behind you!” Ava shouted as she was peeking through the fence. Ava grabbed Mia’s hand and pulled her over. They both fell to the ground, and looked at each other with so much

"So it's a ghost story, but with only living human being?" he asked at the end

In A Darker Shade of Magic, V.E. Schwab tells the story of a smuggler who travels through different worlds that each contains varying degrees of magic. Kell is the adopted child of the royal family in Red London, which contains the most magic out of all four existing London worlds. Meanwhile, Delilah Bard comes from Grey London, which is drab and does not have any form of magic. White London contains magic but is being destroyed by the royalty that lives there, and Black London is an area that has since self-destructed because it was overridden by dark magic. Kell is an Antari magician who travels through these four Londons, smuggling treasures back with him from time to time. He meets Delilah in Grey London, and she convinces him to take

Once upon a time there were 3 llamas Carl, Fuzzy, and Lola .They all wanted to go see their friend Magic who is a unicorn. Magic is a total buffoon that lives in a town called Crystal Cliff. So, that night they all packed up all of their things to go visit Magic.