Throughout the reading, Gladwell presents examples to narrow down the big issue. Gladwell's diction persuades the audience by evoking ethos to elaborate his syllogism. A piece of arrogance can lie within the people who are developing these ranking systems. The concern is that proxies do not measure variables as the way they suppose to do. In fact, when talking about college rankings, Gladwell utilizes a doubtful tone. Here is why: after providing information about college rankings, a suicide ranking example is explained. Suicide is "too tricky" to measure in a certain way (373). "Nobody knows whether suicide rankings are real," David Phillips says. The analogy between college and suicide rankings is that both cannot be accurate measured. There
To counter the constant negativity, he also exemplifies solutions for fixing grade inflation. For example, Brent Staples references Valen Johnson’s proposal for a grade point average reform that accounts the selected major into the grade point average system (389). With this example, the reform will significantly decrease the median grade point average and reward those who achieve high grades in courses related to their respective major. Behind this positive message, Brent Staples still criticizes college administrators for prioritizing their public image over a legitimate grading system without the complaining tone in the majority of his essay. Furthermore, Brent Staple’s examples do solve an actual issue and not a phantom problem. In 1975 alone, there was over tens times more bachelors in psychology than there were available jobs for them (Bird 424). Because the current grading system allows for counterfeit grade point averages, there are an excessive number of psychology bachelors. Brent Staples provided solutions because this issue proves his criticisms in
“Never push a loyal person to a point where they no longer care.” Innocent people will end up doing desperate things for others just the way Conrad committed suicide because his girlfriend made him. Michelle, the girlfriend forced him to kill himself so many times till one day he finally decided too because he couldn’t take it anymore. The ”Suicide By Text” case has prompted many people to discuss social issues such as depression and emotional manipulation.
Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess different sociological explanations of suicide. (21 marks)
I have had the pleasure of watching Kailey Keach mature into a confident and driven young woman over the past 6 years, most recently as her high school counselor. She works hard at everything she does as evident by her being ranked in the top 25% of her class, earning 27 college hours up graduation, winning numerous buckles and banners for exhibiting her lambs, goats and judging livestock, and by the many awards and honors she has received from all of the other extracurricular activities she participated in all throughout high school.
His main argument of the article is regarding U.S News’ rankings of college institutions and the technique and algorithm they use to develop the rankings results. The problem at hand is how U.S. News weighs and values each category. For instance the reputation score counts for almost a quarter percent of a scools final grade. Gladwell goes on to say: “To go higher than forty-seventh, it needs a better reputation score, and to get a better reputation score it needs to be higher than forty-seventh. The U.S. News ratings are a self-fulfilling prophecy.”(7) He goes on to give an example of a survey that was sent out to lawyers, in which they would rank the top law schools in the nation. This was prior to Penn State having a law school; they ranked Penn State's law school roughly fifth. Gladwell demonstrates strong logos in both examples. How can we rank something based on reputation if use its pre-existing rank as it’s reputation. Ultimately, this leads to re-releasing the same rankings year and year again. Gladwell’s display of logic to argue against this specific ranking system is uncanny, especially as a student who used the U.S. News ranking system in determining which college institutions I would apply
College athletes should get paid because they are risking their career of getting hurt, and they will be prepared for the pros. Getting hurt is a big role of ruining a college athletes chance of going pro, (NCAA) makes the athletes that have a chance of going pro get insurance and NCAA covers that insurance which is 90k. When a college athlete gets, hurt they don't pay the medical bill the college does, I wouldn't expect colleges to pay for an injury. When college athletes get hurt, they lose college credits for being in the hospital and not being in class, their athletes and play for your college give them a break and give them their credit. A college athlete named Brandon Roy, who played for the University Of Washington got hurt in a college game and had knee problems since then, in 2006 he made it to the NBA played for Minnesota Timberwolves got traded to the Portland Trailblazers then retired in 2011 then returned in 2012 and played for Minnesota then got hurt the 5th game of the season and then he announced he was done for good.
The main argument of this article is that it doesn’t matter who comes out first place in a certain ranking, it all depends on who’s doing the ranking and on what variables the ranking is taking place. Malcolm Gladwell believes that a ranking can be heterogenous (diverse in content), as long as it doesn’t try to be too comprehensive (including all or nearly all aspects of something). He also believes that a ranking can be comprehensive as long as it doesn’t try to measure things that are heterogeneous. Also even if the ranking is trying to be both heterogeneous and comprehensive at the same time, it’ll only work properly if the subjects being ranked are
Kaysen illustrates the suicidal thoughts that she had, and the state of mind a person must be in in order to attempt suicide. She mentions that you must mentally and emotionally detach yourself from life so that one may feel that life is not worth living anymore. Dissociative symptoms are also a part of borderline personality disorder. This is evident in an episode of depersonalization that Kaysen experienced. Kaysen becomes worried that she does not have bones in her hand. She recalls the incident by saying:
Gladwell’s use of ethos through word choice and tone throughout the five-page case in Outliers is concerned and disappointed as if in this example he is upset that his thesis is holding true. He is displaying himself as an equal to the audience, just as sad and frustrated throughout the disappointing Langan case, “That was the lesson Langan learned from his childhood: distrust authority and be independent,” (110). The pathos employed by emotional influence is strong throughout the entire discouraging case because the audience views the great potential of Langan, lost due to a lacking background. Gladwell uses short phrases to be direct with the issue which forces his audience to ponder on the information, “He’d had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone,” (115). The mental image of Langan having to persevere in harsh conditions with Gladwell’s thesis of success against him, makes the audience feel for him. Furthermore, it u9nfortunately persuades the reader that if the super genius, Chris Langan, cannot succeed because of his lacking background, then Gladwell’s thesis that success is based on factors
Suicide is, according to Sartre, “an opportunity to stake out our understanding of our essence as individuals in a godless world” (Stanford, 2004). Fundamentally, existentialism argues all individuals are free and therefore responsible for their actions. Thus, it is up to the individual to create an ethos of personal ideology, which is the only way one is able to rise above the human condition of suffering, death and finality (Guigon, 2001). Suicide is seen as the individual’s act of giving in to the absurdity of human life. In other words, when a human is unable to create meaning out of the absurdity that surrounds him or herself, her or she live the typical life of pain, suffering, death and thus make suicide a natural act of existence
“You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream” (Michael Dell).College education prices are not worth it. College does not land you a good paying job, you end up in deep debt, and it is not worth it for low-income families. College prices are not worth it. Why, because of the rises cost of tuition and the lack of public school preparation.
Thesis: While Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, I believe That Suicide is wrong.
Have you ever known someone who’s committed or tried to commit suicide and thought, “I wish I would’ve done something, said something, to stop it from happening?” I know I would ask myself that question everyday if I hadn’t. A few years ago, a good friend of mine thought her life was so bad she wanted to end it. I did the only thing I could think, and told the nearest teacher. It may sound so childish or stupid, but it worked. Luckily, she’s still alive and well. I’m here to make sure you can make the difference and help a person who might be, or is suicidal. Just think of what would happen if you didn’t try to help.
Someone, somewhere, commits suicide every 18 minutes. You might never be able to tell who it will be, it could be the person sitting right next . Statistics reveal that approximately three million youths, between 12-18, have either thought about or attempted suicide in the past year. More than 1/3, actually succeeded.
Depression affects everyone's life at sometime or another. Depression comes in a wide variety of forms, from mild unhappiness to a chemical imbalance in the mind. There are many different symptoms that reveal a person's problem with depression. If left untreated, depression may continue to develop into a serious illness or even death.