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After reading The Tipping Point, I have learned many important “tips” in marketing. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, identifies three important concepts based on his deep studies throughout his life: “the Law of the Few”, “the Stickiness Factor”, and “the Power of Context”. These factors play essential roles in deciding if a particular trend will work in widespread popularity. He makes these concepts interesting and understandable.

Throughout The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell explains to his reader his ideas about drastic changes in society, and how they seem to occur so rapidly. In this particular selection, Gladwell emphasizes the purpose of “connectors”, saying that they have a “special gift for bringing the world together (page 38)”. Gladwell states that part of the reason information or trends spread like wildfire is the presence of a specific group of people. They are called “connecters”, and they are people who know, or are connected to, people of “different worlds (page 51)”, and bring them together. In his book, The Tipping Point, Gladwell uses different forms of persuasion, rhetorical questions, and organization to

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell looks at a number of social epidemics and analyzes their build up to the point where they tip. “Tipping” is that point where an epidemic booms, or grows, to its maximum potential. Gladwell begins defining “tipping” with a literal example of the famous shoes, Hush Puppies. Once considered old-fashioned, Hush Puppies experienced a social boom in the mid-90s when hipsters in New York made them trendy again. Gladwell continues explaining “tipping” with a medical epidemic of syphilis in Baltimore. Gladwell introduces us to three essential rules of epidemics: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor and the Power of Context. The Law of the Few says a key factor in epidemics is the role of the messenger: it

Once this subculture started getting more popular it attracted more people. “Even at retail price back then $125 stores couldn’t keep the shoes on the shelfs” (Lammle). People didn’t care what the price was, they wanted the sneakers of any cost. Till this day there is people “who spend all night in line eagerly awaiting the release of a new shoe and devote staggering amount of time and money to collecting footwear” (Kahn). Shoe collecting contributed to society young

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

How big is the world? Some might ponder and the answer is, not as big as it seems. The world isn’t a scary, huge and untouchable place, as it is perceived to be. In reality, the universe is just a blank canvas filled with unique and mesmerizing people. That shapes our world into what it has become. The world would never be what it is without the people living on it. In the Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell explains the theory of the world and how it seems to be and control everything. Although, it’s the people in the world that make a difference. However people don’t believe they can change and make a difference in the world, but they can. Everyone has the power to change the world and shape their lives and others. Therefore it's up to them to decide if it will be for good or evil. In The Tipping point, Malcolm Gladwell uses the motif of how little things can make a big difference, for example, hush puppies. This motif signifies how the slightest movement in just the right place can change the world completely. We all have the power, but it can just take one to change the world.

Ryan White was one of the many people entangled in the hysteria. White, who contracted the virus through a bad blood transfusion, endured much ridicule in his short life. Rejected by his friends, neighbors and even his own school, White felt like an outcast. (Johnson, 1) Most of the people’s fear, stemmed from their ignorance on the topics of AIDS.(Johnson, 1) Hysteria started when people thought AIDS could be contracted by a simple handshake, which made people scared of getting the disease.(Johnson, 1) White began to educate people about this disease by spreading awareness on the subject.(Johnson, 1) People slowly started to realize that the disease wasn’t as contractible as the hysteria led them to believe.(Johnson, 1) Ryan White died at age eighteen, from complications from the AIDS virus.(Johnson, 1) White still serves as reminder of how much we learned from the hysteria. (Johnson,

Gladwell began the book by describing a “thin-slice”, and then refers to that definition after each example. For instance, when Gladwell describes the “Warren Harding error” -- or the phenomenon where people are selected for jobs simply because they look like they are qualified – he says,

In The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell, Gladwell discusses how ideas are spread as a result of social epidemics. Through his concepts of The Law of the Few, The Stickiness Factor, and The Power of Context, we can examine how certain ‘sticky’ trends spread through our society. The trend I will be examining now is the current ‘man bun’ epidemic. The so called ‘man bun’ came to be the latest fashion trend for men due in part to the internet and to other factors as discussed in Gladwell’s The Tipping Point.

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell examines the phenomenon of the tipping point: “that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire,” as put into words by the book’s author. Gladwell packed his book full of interesting studies that further explain the concept of the tipping point. In my opinion, The Tipping Point is a very captivating book. Through reading The Tipping Point, I gained insight into what the tipping point is.

Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point” is radical because he talks about how the environment can change people behavior. The environment could have caused people to change for better or worst. For example: When people were placed in an environment of filth they are more violent and hectic causing the crime rate to increase. When you come from a bad neighborhood you are statistically more likely to be dangerous and belligerent. If you were to place people into a different environment, you can expect change (not saying it always work). Throughout the story Malcolm gives many examples of change. He starts off by talking about four young men who were on a New York train. They had asked a man for five dollars when unsuspectedly the man shot them. The author then goes on to talk about the variables that went into the shooting making it more specific. They said the cause was the graffiti and dirty train. But then he goes to explain the bigger picture by explaining this current situation through other situations if not similar.

The Tipping Point is explained how things spread from one person to another, whether it is ideas, products, fashion trends, increase in crime rates, sexually transmitted diseases/infections, and any other sudden unexplained changes or patterns. The underlying

What can one consider being a tipping point in a situation. Is it when a situation changes from bad to worse? Could it be when it changes from good to better? Or could it be from when it changes from a bad situation and all of a sudden it turns around and becomes good? In my essay we are going to explore the tipping point from four different authors: Malcolm Gladwell, Mary G. King, Lynne M. Anderson, and Christine M. Pearson. From subject of: hush puppies, teen suicide, crime, smoking, incivility in the workplace and the black women’s breakthrough into clerical work. There could be many reasons why there were tipping

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This book report discusses the best seller nonfiction book, “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell. This book is an interesting read to understand the science of epidemics in all areas of life. The author various examples to elaborates as to how small actions at the right time, in the right and with the right people can create a tipping point for a product/service. For instance, Hush Puppies ‘tipped’ in 1993, when a few fashion-forward hipsters from Soho New York started wearing the failing brand again. A chain reaction was triggered through this small event, which cascaded though the US increasing sales and creating a word of mouth epidemic. Gladwell explains three point plan of how any brand