Steven Levitt

The novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a fascinating story about a female teenager that is living through her senior year. Mia Hall a young, beautiful cello player in her school’s orchestra. She opens her chest of feelings for a boy named Adam in his own rock band, which even though they are completely from two different worlds she still finds some characteristic that draws her attention to him. As a girl that is shy and keeps to herself at times. She opens the door to explore life a little more…

Justice Stevens agreed with the other Justices that school officials do not need a warrant in order to conduct a search. However, Justice Stevens disagreed with the Court establishing the reasonable suspicion standard. Justice Stevens noted, “I believe the nature of the suspected infraction is a matter of first importance in deciding whether any invasion of privacy is permissible.” Justice Stevens believed that conduct should be “unlawful” or at the very…

Map by Steven Johnson gives an in depth account of how a disease can cause immense repercussions in the evolution of society. This story takes place in London in 1854 when there was an enormous outbreak of the disease known as Cholera. Cholera is a disease that wreaks havoc on the body causing deathly dehydration via loss of bodily fluids. This is not just the story of an outbreak. However it discusses many higher order-thinking points in regards to humans and city life. The author Steven…

Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Steven D. Levitt (2007) Hatred and Profits: Retrieved From: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan. Retrieved from: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014794 Authors Roland G. Fryer Jr. of Harvard University and Steven D. Levitt of University of Chicago researched the Ku Klux Klan organization from the 1920s when a large group of white men assembled together claiming to be a social organization of salesman that concentrated their beliefs of hatred,…

The field of financial matters can concentrate more than the workings of economies; it can likewise investigate human conduct by they way it responds to motivating forces. Financial expert Steven D. Levitt and writer Stephen J. Dubner host a collection of documentaries that looks at how individuals respond to opportunities to gain, wittingly or something else. “Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant," says the Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Like sunlight, data empowers people to…

Well Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner disclosed within the text an example of just this. Many Atlanta police departments were underreporting crimes to make it seem as if there city was less violate in order to land the 1996 Summer Olympics. They needed to shed their…

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner explain why humans are mostly apathetic but seldom altruistic in their book Super Freakonomics. I somewhat agree and disagree with their ideas because humans are innately altruistic. First, they provide a murder case that took place in a peaceful neighborhood. Kitty Genovese, lived here and was stabbed and raped by a man. The whole process lasted 30 minutes, but no one in the neighborhood called the police. Therefore, Levitt and Dubner suggest that humans are…

The author of freakonomics, Steven Levitt, wrote the article Flesh Trade in an effort to bring awareness to the idea in monetizing our organs. He is able to effectively communicate his controversial viewpoint with credible evidence and easy to read language. Therefore, common people are able to understand his argument and form their own opinion on the matter. The purpose of discussing such a repugnant topic is made clear by the author’s mention of the people who die waiting for an organ…

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt, a well renowned economist, and Stephen J. Dubner, a New York Times journalist, is a 2005 nonfiction book that ties together economics and everyday life. The sixth chapter of this book, titled “Perfect Parenting Part II; or: Would a Rashonda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?” explores how parents play a role in their children’s success by giving them their names. Levitt wants to know how names differ among children whose parents are of varying economic and…

competition work is usually has a lot of efficiency. However, when something is efficient it is not always competitive. I believe that healthy competition is good and that it leads to a more efficient and effective work ethic. In Freakonomics, authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, write about competition and how people feel as they are forced under certain pressures to have a certain level of efficiency. For example, the authors write about how competitive it is for teachers to make…