Malcolm Reynolds

Malcolm X vs. Martin Luther King Jr. African americans have suffered from injustice and wrongdoing for hundreds of years. Only recently have people begun to try to make changes to right the wrongs. Two influential people from the African American Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. , advocated for change and preached methods to spread it. They both had the same ideas, but wanted to go about those ideas in different ways. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke a lot from religious

There is an old saying that almost everyone has heard at some point in their lives: “practice makes perfect.” But is this saying really true? In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, he examines the correlation between practice and success. He argues that one must put in 10,000 hours of practice in a certain area in order to be successful and “achieve mastery” in it. However, there has also been research done that contradicts Gladwell’s theory. While I agree with Gladwell’s overall idea that practice

make out they make you believe you can`t. Until this one thing comes around that motivates you and you feel like you can be whatever you want to be.Malcolm X found his motivation locked up in a jail cell, he had hope, and he never gave up. The Malcolm X section gives me a feeling of hope. The reason I get this feeling is because he was ambitious and wanted to improve his writing skills. To have hope is to believe that whatever you're aiming for can happen. He was motivated by someone else knowledge

What exactly is an Outlier? Malcolm Gladwell explains to his readers in "Outliers" that an Outlier are "men and women who do things out of the ordinary." Gladwell explains to us that an in order to become successful, there are many factors that can lead to it including birth dates, community and culture, and legacy. He doesn't entirely believe that you can achieve success just from individual merit and hard work but that it takes the environment around you and opportunity to become successful. In

The sky's the limit. Posters in elementary and high school have written all over their walls to encourage children to work hard.Teachers and parents tell children that everything is possible if they just dream hard enough. As children start growing older, parents and teachers use more sophisticated words to reinforce the idea that hard work and effort lead to success. Even the saying the sky’s the limit, confines children into this box of unfulfilled dreams and bitterness. In Gladwell’s Outliers

Movement of the fifties and sixties: Malcolm X. We will discover how different historical perspectives viewed him as an agent of change, whether it be positive or negative. In stark contrast to the multitude of positive views of his actions and philosophy immediately before and after his assassination, we will also view sources that look into the more negative responses to the anti-white philosophy and segregationist views that defined most of his years of activism. Malcolm X’s life has generally been studied

According to Malcolm Gladwell (2008), “If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires (page 151).” Many of these “outliers” that Gladwell gave example to, though, were subject to opportunity and circumstance, not just the action of hard work and assertion. Hard work and intelligence were a huge part of the outliers’ stories, but so was their childhood home, birthdate, and social status. One such story that Gladwell (2008) presents

Malcolm X “Literacy behind Bars” and Rob Baker “Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as a Lifesaver” are well written essays about how both men expected their futures to go nowhere at the time of their imprisonment. To much surprise, they both spent their time in prison enhancing their reading and writing skills. They realized they both entered the world of literature and became important and influential writers, who contributed to society and literature greatly by expressing themselves through their words

In Blink by Malcolm Gladwell presents and creates very fascinating terminologies to describe split-Second processes that human mind undergoes to make important decisions. One of the term that he uses in Blink is “thin slicing”. Malcolm Gladwell defines this term as “the ability of our conscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slice of experince”(23). What this means is your brain is able to “subconsciously gathers the necessary information for sophisticated Judgments”(23)

Martin Luther King Jr. is looked up as a hero and a role model because of his use of nonviolence. Around the world, many people were using violence to solve their problems, but King, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, decided that the problem around segregation in the United States would not be solved with guns but with words of harmony. This article, published by Cesar Chavez conveys the powerful effect nonviolence has in resolving conflicts by using comparisons, historical evidence, and powerful vocabulary