The Tipping Point Analysis

Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference was my book of choice to discuss in small literature circles. The Tipping Point was my first choice because I have read other pieces of Gladwell’s work and enjoyed his writing style. I found The Tipping Point riveting because Gladwell discusses the algorithm of how epidemics become triggered and take off. I took pleasure in reading the first few chapters, but Gladwell’s writing became repetitive and I became disengaged. I penciled in time into my busy schedule, but reading turned into a chore and sank to the bottom of my to-do list.
The optimal time for me to read and fill in my role in the literature circle was on Sunday’s at work. On Sunday’s, I work a single …show more content…
When using databases, I typed in “Vietnam War” and “counterculture” to narrow down the number of results I would receive and try to get a quality article. I prefer to use databases instead of Google Scholar or the open web because Google Scholar does not have a wide variety of free peer edited papers online and people need to be aware of the sites they are going on when looking for credible sources on the open web. Collectively, sites ending in .edu or .gov are the most credible because they come from an educational site or the government. Sites ending in .org or .com come from organizations and most likely have a bias or commercial websites and are trying to sell you something. I found a few reputable articles on the open web, but it took more digging than if I would have started looking in an online database. Overall, my research went smoothly and I truly enjoyed discovering more about the Vietnam War and its role in …show more content…
Terhaar. He provided me with more insight on the Vietnam War and answered my countless questions. He invited me to join a round table conference at Barrington High School to talk about the Vietnam War with other history teachers and students. The conference shed a lot of light on the culture of the 1960s and 1970s and how people who lived through it were affected. The man in charge of the conference spoke about how he was a junior in high school at the tail end of the war. He was planning to enlist as soon as he graduated to try to put himself in the best position because if you get drafted into a war you are automatically put in the grunt of the army. His story opened my eyes to the reality if a war broke out today, many of the people I see every day at school would be putting their life on the lines for our country. That thought pushed my research to further understand what the culture was like at the time and after the Vietnam