Outliers Chunk #3

Malcolm Gladwell's, third part of his book basically finishes his thoughts about people who are extremely gifted but need a little boost by others or other circumstances in order to achieve their life goals. As it happens with Asians who are taught at a much faster pace that regular Americans. This could lead to the explanation of how Asians live at a higher "style" than other cultures. Their hard working curriculum life can help the majority to become what they dream. it all comes down to how much discipline they are introduced to when young. Another factor which chips in with many other problems is that of poor families which can not afford to have extra classes for their children when regular classes are out. Thus causing their children to fall behind in their education because of lack of sufficient income. The last problem which was mentioned was that of people being held back because of their background. People who do not have the boost of being "single-raced" have a larger problem when it comes to education because they are not able to classify themselves as a single ethnic person. All these factors do not help people who are probably the best in the world if they do not have a stroke of luck in their lives. This is what Gladwell tries to point out to all readers.


Would life for these oultiers be easier without the spice of life's hardships?

Can people all over the world fight to become oultiers or is it for selected people only?

A Drug War Truce

Tim Dickerson's, Jun. 2009, article points out both of the sides of the ever growing drug war. This article explains how there are good as well as bad outcomes if marijuana is indeed legalized. Dickerson explains that if the President does indeed accept the proposition of both Sen. Jim Webb and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger then there will be a rise in national funds because of the tax that would be implemented on the sales of marijuana. Even thought the "dark side" of all that would be that there would be even more introduction of many more drugs which are not sold as much or do not have the same amount of profit as marijuana. There would be even more problems with teenage drug abuse just as there is problems with teenage drinking and smoking. The probability that teenagers would begin to abuse of marijuana more than how it is abused of today is high and that is what Dickerson is pointing out in this article.



Would there actually be a good thing coming from legalizing marijuana?



http://www.rollinstone.com/politics/story/28600327/a-drug-war-truce/1

Tweeting in the Jury Box: A Danger to Fair Trials?

Hilary Hylton's, Dec.2009, Time Magazine article states that there may or may not be a good in prohibiting the use of cellphones by jurors. This could cause a problem because other than chatting with friends the jury members may be using those electronic devices to check on previous opinions about the cases. There is where the problem begins because justice would no longer be equal to bothe sides of the cases. This could cause an innocent civilian to lose their case just because of sudden gossip online. It is a good resort for Michigan to begin this type of action for the benefit of the defending parties and also the jury members themselves.


Why Have people allowed such a revolution as Cell Phones to ruin our day to day activities?



http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1948971,00.html

Outliers Chunk #2

In the second chunk of Malcolm Gladwell's, Outliers, the purpose remains the same as in the first chunk and focuses on how great people can not become great on their own. This section of the book focuses on the three very important rules of how to live in a world in which almost no one may succeed if they do not look or act a certain way. The Jewish,for example, can not find it easy to become great people in this world because of how they appear at first sight no matter how good they are at what they do. There is also a problem for people who can not succeed and yet thier offspring do. People must, as previously pointed out in Chunk #1, be born at the right time. the right place and into the right backfround aside from working hard. Another point which was that culture has a big effect on how people begin to see the way that people should continue in life. It all depends on how people grow up how people depend on others to live on. people have to be confident about how they go about living, if not then they will be left out of the world. the last point of this Chunk was that the way people act and how they express themselves has a very large impact on how they survive in the world or in the air.

Does Gladwell explain the points in this chunk as well as he did in the previous?

How can people of today learn to control their abilities in order to benefit others as well?

Looking Younger May Mean Living Longer

Tiffany O'Callaghan, Dec. 2009, states that people who care for their appearance and do not appear to look aged can live longer than those who do not care for their appearance. This satates that there will appear to be a stereotype for young and ol looking people. After a while people will begin to want to buy more anti-aging creams than before so that they may look younger and make themselves live longer. Yet everyone knows that health has the largest impact on a person's life span. this only serves to contradict what people already know and understand about how thier lives may be extended.

Is there a way for people to stop listening to the media and follow their own thoughts?


http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009/12/29/looking-younger-may-mean-living-longer/

Outliers Chunk #1

Malcolm Gladwell's, Outliers, presents to readers a type of people who do not fit in with people who are called outliers. These people are those who are exceptional at what they do and how they do it. Outliers are people with intelectual or physical gifts which are unconciously prepared by adults at a young age so that they may surpass everyone else. This is shown in how in some hockey teams the players are mostly born in the first months of the year due to cot off dates. These cut off dates make other players born in other months to have to be limited to lower playing teams due to a loss of valuable practice hours. There is also a trouble with geniuses who also have headstarts due to connections with important people who get them into important situations. This can also be seen with Bill Joy which is probably the greatest legend of computer programming. If it had not been for his connections which he possessed then he may not have able to gain access to the computer or even if his age varied by a few years he would not have been known. Even though people think that these people were born to do what they do, the real truth would be that they were tat the right lace at the right time.


What would the world be like without outliers or extrordinary people like them?


Does Gladwell use a difference in tone to refer to outliers and to regular people?

Fredrick Douglass

In The Narrative of The Life of Fredrick Douglass, my personal favorite chapter was chapter 3 in which there was a comparison between slaves and pure-bred horses. I personally felt that this chapter made slaves be seen as a type non-human creatures which were not ment to even be called humans. This caused a feeling of hatred toward the slavemasters for being so cruel and toward the slaves themselves for not coming together to fight back.