OUTLIERS The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell As I read Outliers‚ an excellent book by Malcom Gladwell also author of the Tipping Point one of my favorite marketing books I couldn’t help being reminded of the movie Good Will Hunting. There is a particular scene in the movie where Matt Damon‚ playing a poor teen from Southern Boston confronts a wealthy MIT student. Damon tells him‚ “You were born on third base and you think you hit a triple.” In other words‚ we often over-attribute our
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Name__________________________________Mod_______Date_____________ Cell WEBQUEST: An interactive journey into the cell! Answer the following questions. You do not have to answer these questions in complete sentences‚ but your answers should be complete with details and information! Go to: http://askabiologist.asu.edu/research/buildingblocks/cellparts.html 1a) How many different kinds of cells are in your body? ________________ 1b) Why do you suppose there are so many different types of cells
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A tarnished sword sat in my grandparents’ house for 50 years. No one knew where it came from. No one knew why it was there. Three years ago‚ I spotted this sword propped up against the fireplace. I noticed an inscription in the brass and leather scabbard with a name‚ Ephraim F. Bauder‚ in cursive script. This is the story of that sword. I’m a history nut with a passion for artifacts. So much so‚ that I started my company‚ Wormuth Antiques‚ to resell flea market‚ garage sale‚ and estate sale finds
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control isn’t there. In a game‚ things are predictable‚ but the real world is not. Life can be comparable to that of a jigsaw puzzle. For those that are fortunate‚ there are very few pieces to “win the game”. Then there are those who have many scattered pieces to fit together. With work‚ dedication and a bit of luck‚ the game can be won‚ but there are those who have a jigsaw puzzles which have pieces that don’t even match with one another‚ making it impossible to win. That is what makes reality so harsh
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From the moment I was born‚ then adopted in Ghanzhou‚ China as a six month-old infant with unknown parents‚ to where I walked down the aisle on the football field to get my high school diploma in the state of New Jersey‚ I have always had the fascination to balance life as if it were a chemical equation. Like the universal solvent‚ water‚ it is certain that an abundance of college applicants will dissolve like the solute‚ sugar. This leaves a cloudy mixture‚ much similar to searching for one’s own
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Aptitude Test (Example Only) Non Verbal Reasoning Ability Concerned with how well you can think and solve problems. A series of puzzles are given‚ each of which has a piece missing. You must decide which piece of several given alternatives will complete each puzzle. Examples 1. Which piece completes the pattern? 2. Which piece completes the pattern 3. Which piece completes the pattern? Aptitude Test (Example Only) - continued 4. Which piece completes the pattern? Verbal Reasoning Ability
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leadership 1 LA Times Online‚ “How Kadafi Went From Foe to Ally‚” September 4‚ 2005. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-uslibya4sep04‚0‚2925389.story?coll=la-totpromo& track=pacifictime 2 The New York Times‚ “Hamas‚ a Policy Puzzle of the West” Wednesday‚ February 1‚ 2006. pg A12. Afshan Khoja 2 of Hamas‚ as reported by Time magazine‚ have been better off than those under Fatah3. The PA and Fatah have left Palestine in
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inexorable demise. It is interesting how one may think that he himself is controlling his actions‚ yet he doesn’t realize that what he thinks is only what his fate allows him to think. The Fate vs. Free Will puzzle has been very controversial in the past. The answer to this very complicated puzzle lies in one’s moral values‚ because in the end that’s what one chooses to believe. Oedipus possesses a sense of pride and ego. This feeling blinds him from seeing the truth because he essentially doesn’t want
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Algebra is like doing regular math but using non- numeric math objects instead. It can also be thought of as a kind of language that uses its own vocabulary. Some consider algebra to be like puzzles. You could start with something like “a – 2 = 5” and what you will end up with is the answer to the puzzle of what the variable of a is. In this case a is 7. There are many properties of Algebra. Distributive‚ associative‚ identity‚ inverse‚ closure‚ simplification and commutative are a few
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Activities 1. Motivation * Do you have a vegetable garden in your backyard? * What vegetables do you have in your garden? * Do you know what vegetables is this? 2. Unlocking of Difficulties Solve the crossword puzzle with the clues. ACROSS 1 It is a four sided figure with four right angles and one pair of opposite sides is longer than the other pair. 3 It is the longest dimension of an object. DOWN 2 It is the
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