tweeted”‚ Malcolm Gladwell offers harsh critiques of the superficial relationship between social media and social change. Gladwell writes‚ “social media cannot provide what social change requires” (Gladwell‚ 315). Gladwell argues that social change requires “strong ties” and “a level of hierarchy organization” in which social media‚ comprised of networks built of “weak ties”‚ cannot support. Gladwell makes compelling arguments that most are willing to agree with. However‚ Gladwells arguments present
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read nineteen essays that are written by this Malcolm Gladwell guy of whom I have never heard of. I thought college work was actually going to be interesting‚ apparently not!” After getting the book and just reading through the different topics Gladwell had written about I began to realize that my assumption was correct. This book was going to be boring. However‚ I decided to get a feel for the book by reading the introduction. I found that Gladwell was chastising humans in saying that our instinct “is
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Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point offers a fascinating and insightful way to think about the issue of epidemics. Those elements Gladwell believes are the basis for why epidemics start allows the reader to think about their world in a way they never thought they could. I would not have thought of Sesame Street or Blue’s clues as being defined as epidemics. When one thinks of an epidemic‚ one thinks of AIDS‚ or some form of disease so widespread that it must be contained and a cure provided
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billionaires‚ professional athletes‚ lawyers‚ and scientists‚ that Malcolm Gladwell examines in his 2008 book‚ Outliers: Stories of Success. He delves deep into the stories of successful people‚ finding that they are rarely self-made. He counters the well-loved “rags to riches” stories that success is a product of great opportunities‚ cultural legacy‚ and a bit of luck. Summary In the first section of Outliers‚ “Opportunity‚” Gladwell
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people would believe that we are shaped and defined by our values and moral character. However‚ Malcolm Gladwell argues‚ in the chapter “The Power of Context‚ Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime”‚ that “the features of our immediate social and physical world‚ the streets we walk down‚ the people we encounter – play a huge role in shaping who we are and how we act” (160). Gladwell points out that people are shaped by their “external environment” (160). Gladwerll’s theory‚ the importance
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friends are. Malcolm Gladwell highlights whether or not these friendships are truly genuine‚ or inauthentic ones just kept over social media. In his essay‚ “Small Changes: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”‚ Gladwell distinguishes between these two types of friendships as either “strong ties” or “weak ties”. He defines weak ties as a group of friends that we keep over social media‚ but don’t really exist in real life. Although weak ties come off as a negative thing‚ Gladwell sees strength in weak
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Style‚ in literature is crucial for individualizing one author’s work from another. In Outliers‚ Gladwell implements stylistic elements of denouement‚ parallelism‚ calls to action‚ and colloquialism to enhance his writing piece. Through these writing styles‚ Gladwell is able to maintain the attention of the reader‚ create an informal mood with the reader‚ connect ideas‚ and add emphasis. Gladwell is able to add emphasis in his writing through the application of parallelism in his writing. Parallelism
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Kate Oliver Art and Craft of Writing Professor Fleischner 2/15/15 The Power of Social Media In his article‚ “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.”‚ Malcolm Gladwell illustrates why social media is not an effective tool in organizing social or political activism. Throughout the essay‚ Gladwell describes multiple examples of protests and how much more they were effective without social media. The protests leaned towards being stronger‚ more organized‚ and the people participating
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first officer with the back of his hand for committing a navigation error. After hiring an outside consultant to train flight crews to equalize the power and responsibilities within the flight cabin‚ Korean Airlines attained a clean safety record (Gladwell 180-219). The tendency to create such an unequal balance of power is not limited to Koreans or their pilots. It is a characteristic deeply rooted in many cultures across the globe‚ including the Filipino culture. And while Korean Airlines’s plane
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shows why fast food is struggling to have a nutrition movement. Malcolm Gladwell uses some very shocking facts about French fries and how unhealthy they are for the body. He states the average American eats about thirty pounds of French fries a year. In 1990‚ health concerns arose about using animal-based cooking oil to deep fry them. This caused major fast-food houses to switch to deep frying in vegetable oil. Gladwell then proves this change to be even unhealthier. Switching to vegetable oil
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