Blink

To minimize the distance of the fourth wall between a reader and a piece of work, authors often rely on literary tactics to effectively convey their message. In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell’s message to his audience is that people’s first instinct is usually correct; ironically, extensive analyzing of something can lead to flawed thinking. Gladwell uses several rhetorical techniques such as the rhetorical question, cataloguing, and allusion to not only embellish his writing, but to develop his…

In chapter 2 of Blink, “Malcolm Gladwell explores many different examples based on snap judgement, which is extremely quick, because it is based off of the thinist slice of information. One of the examples Gladwell explores that stood out to me would be priming, and the example in the book had students go through a set of five words, ten sets of them, and they were broken into two groups. In both groups, the students were suppose to make four word sentences out of the five sets of words and they…

you have never talked to them or even made contact of any kind yet you feel an attraction to them. Unbeknownst to you, your brain has made a snap judgement based off of “thin-slicing”. The book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell explores this idea of thin-slicing. Blink is divided into chapters that all begin with an anecdote that is supposed to introduce the main idea and after he dissects the anecdote so the reader can fully understand why it was chosen while…

In the poem “Blink Your Eyes”, by Sekou Sundiata there is a discriminatory attitude towards racial profiling. Racial profiling is simply the belief that because of your race, gender, ethnicity, or religion you may act a certain way. Sundiata’s poem emphasizes one of the many ways in which African Americans are racial profiled in the United States. Sundiata shows us first hand what he experiences being a black man from the ghetto. The first major element of this poem is the word choice that the…

The poem “ Blink Your Eyes” by Sekou Sundiata, an African American poet and performer, is about him showing his outrage towards racial profiling. He is trying to drive to go see his women, but there is something stopping him from doing that. He is pulled over by a policeman and he feels tension because he understands that there is a possibility he can be subjected to the law for doing nothing wrong. The policeman accuses the African American man of committing a crime just because he is black. He…

Stefani Daoud J. Arredondo English 114 27 September 2017 The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions In chapter two of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking titled The Locked Door:The Secret Life of Snap Decisions by Malcolm Gladwell, a writer for the New Yorker, describes the many different ways our unconscious works. Gladwell describes how Vic Braden, one of the world’s top tennis coaches, can tell when a tennis player is about to double-fault just by observing the player. Vic…

In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell persuades the readers how powerful a human’s subconscious is through the experiments of other people. He show how important it is and how it is not a bad way to judge a situation. Snap judgements are created by the subconscious from the tiniest bit of information taken from our surroundings. Snap judgements can also be called thin slicing or rapid cognition. Gladwell shows there are pros and cons to the this…

Nathan McArdle Mrs. Clark-Gonzalez AP Rhetoric September 8th, 2016 Gladwell, Malcolm. "1-3." Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. New York: Little, Brown, 2005. 1-98. Print. In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, he attempts to prove that through a process called thin slicing people make preconceived notions about people based on several outstanding characteristics they may present. This subconscious thought happens in seconds leading us to never fully comprehend…

Have you ever found yourself saying, “something just doesn’t feel right!” or to some degree along those lines? The book “Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking” by Malcolm Gladwell starts out with a similar feeling. Blink opens with the introduction of “The Statute That Didn’t Look Right”, September 1983 an art dealer named Gianfranco entered the Getty Museum located in California. With him he had a brilliantly preserved piece of work that measured near seven feet tall, with a price tag…

I remember when my football coach showed me Don't Blink for the first time around 10-11 years old. At the time I was thinking it was a good song, but as the years start passing by the song started hitting me in personal ways. Life flashes right in front of you and it's like you don't even realize it until everything is gone. Life shouldn't be taken for granted, and should be fulfilled with everything you have ever wanted. Listening to “Don't blink” by Kenny Chesney has changed my life and…