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The heading “Rice Paddies and Math Tests” is the main focus of chapter. Gladwell begins the chapter by illustrating the multiple steps it takes to grow rice paddies, emphasizing the point that rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years. Next, the Chinese number system is brought up due to its “logical counting system”. The regularity in the system provides advantages for Asian children, because they are able to learn faster than American children, specifically in subjects such as mathematics

Entry#7 Review of Network Film Network is a film by Paddy Chayefsky. It’s a fictional work based on the struggles of television network with poor ratings. Satires use sarcasm and irony to communicate to the society. Satirical movies or radio programmers’ are used (Coppola 57) to ridicule religion, politics and economic activities. Satires are intended to expose problems caused by cultural practices and its contradictions. Satire is applied to shame the government, individuals or society towards

Paddy Ashdown I can see in an archaic war movie, a rumbling, grumbling, stiff bottom lipped officer holding his fist high and through his pheasant feathered moustache yells out; “You cannot taketh our hearts and minds, they’re locked in this great land of ours… liberalism will never surrender.” Whenever Ashdown speaks or writes I believe a trumpet somewhere rises up and sounds off an array of notes. Ashdown knows it too; you can see that distant glint in his eye just before he announces things or

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Abstract: The Pokkali field are unique ecosystem of central Kerala with rich biodiversity and capacity to generate organic salt resistant paddy cum shrimp/fish. Salt tolerant strain of paddy cultivated in coastal areas for six months from May to October followed by Filtered shrimp or Prawn or fishes culture during November to April under traditional farming system of about 12,986.6 ha in Kerala. Rice cultivation alone not profitable under the organic farming, but the overall Pokkali farming system

INTRODUCTION In 2011, President Benigno Aquino administration set a goal of achieving rice self-sufficiency by 2013 under the implementation of the National Rice Program. The country was declared 98% self- sufficient by the end of 2012. And just this fourth quarter of the year, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala stated that full sufficiency in rice is considered to be attainable at the end of 2013. The NRP just one of the various government programs dealing with the reduction of poverty in the

Ciara Campos Professor Shamiryan English 096 November 9, 2015 Modifying into Cultures Everybody has a different definition of success. Success can be interpreted into having happiness, having knowledge, and being financially stabled. Most people describe it as being patient and having a positive mindset. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers, demonstrated how without the knowledge of other cultures, there are many things that people won’t consider questioning or realizing about it. He also showed

English, T. J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster. New York: Regan, 2006, 442 p.p Throughout his career T.J English has written five books and a multitude of articles for the LA Times, The New York Times, Playboy, and a variety of other magazines and newspapers. All of his books (The Westies, Born to Kill, Havana Nocturne, and The Savage City) and articles cover some aspect of the criminal world, whether it be the criminal themselves, or the act that they carry out. T

I have chosen to discuss a chapter titled “Rice Paddies and Math,” from Outliers. I will also be discussing the articles “In Praise of Chain Stores” and “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” from The Presence of Others. Some of my favorite assignments were ones that involved reading chapters from Outliers by Malcom Gladwell. This book always took my preconceived notions and tore them down piece by piece. I particularly enjoyed “Rice Paddies and Math” because of the way it tied math capabilities to culture

devastation caused by Typhoon Aila in 2009 destroyed approximately 900 kms of embankment thus salinating many miles of agricultural land. This prompted Kolkata NGO, Society for Environment and Development (ENDEV) to look into introducing strains of paddy rice which were resistant to saline water and soil thus providing farmers a lifeline to their crop yield. ENDEV activists took a year to identify five indigenous salt resistant seeds : • Hamilton • Talmugur • Nona bokra • Lal getu • Sada getu The