The Tipping Point

Blink Essay Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink presents a wealth of interesting information about humans and the way we think. Much of this information comes in discrete chunks, each the result of a different social science experiment. Many of these ideas are applicable to the rest of our lives. There are three main sections that have great meaning in this book, "Seven Second in the Bronx," the "Love Lab," and "Blink in Black and White." These sections show the true meaning of why the book Blink…

does not necessarily provide any advantage. This sparked me to reflect on our society's method of determining intelligence. Gladwell notes that, “The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point. Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn’t seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage” (79). Gladwell’s notion that you do not have to be incredibly smart, just smart enough changed the way I thought about our society. In…

In this essay the main topic is going to be the turning points in three different stories. A turning point is when something or something comes to a sudden change. For example, for my birthday my uncle gave me some money for whatever I wanted to buy and I was happy that what he gave me. One reason that someone's life can change is by receiving a gift. For example, in “An American Childhood” Annie Dillard gets a microscope for christmas and when she is playing around with it she finds the…

When Gladwell wrote his essay he was thinking in the past when the whole world is living in the present. All of these factors are very important and should be considered when analyzing and reading his essay. Gladwell does explain and prove many of his viewpoints and gave examples for them, yet he is missing key information. I think the context in which he analyzed the essay was slightly confusing. The essay was very confusing in my opinion because he is talking in past tense and he stays that…

A turning point in a novel is often a point when the plot heads in a new direction due to a choice or a dilemma. It’s a part in the story when a character takes an important step toward changing his or her situation. This can cause a change in the character's personality and in the events in her life. In the novel, Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz, the protagonist Esperanza unwillingly escapes her life of luxury to immigrate to the United States. Her turning point is when her mother becomes sick…

Decisions are made everyday by humans some are easy others are impossible to choose, and there is a great deal of influences that go behind a decision. However in Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell shows the reader different ideologies of various tactics of decision making with contrasting influences, furthermore Gladwell establishes the power of snap judgements with ideas from the book. Gladwell seeks to persuade the reader to employ his concepts of decision making in everyday life, using…

thin-slicing in order to persuade readers that intuitive judgment is developed by experience, training, and knowledge. Gladwell adopts an informative tone for teens, adults, and teachers. Gladwell makes a few main points and uses a few main characters to help his audience understand his main points better. Gladwell began his book by using the story of how the Getty…

act to happen society must reach a tipping point and reach an insurgent consciousness. Tipping point happens with many attempts of approach in reaching freedom are ineffective. Insurgent consciousness happens when enough people gather together to recognized that the system they seek to overthrow is vulnerable and that new circumstances make success more likely (Davidson, Lytle, 384). During the time of oppression, when the group of minority reaches the tipping point, one…

system, and specifically on our teachers in the classrooms. “The Tipping point” is a book by Malcolm Galdwell analyzing and discussing previous epidemics, and how epidemics tip in societies in…

In the article, "The Transgender Tipping Point", the Trans world was introduced to the society we know today. After one year of the decision from the Supreme Court to allow people to marry who they loved, no matter their sex, transgender people begun to build a civil-rights movement to challenge the long-term norms and beliefs. What were news to me that I learned in the article, there is no concrete correlation between a person's gender identity and sexual interests and many insurance plans have…