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Outliers chunk 2

In the second chunk Malcolm Gladwell discusses the topic about how everybody thinks that people with high IQ's are more intelligent than people with lower IQ's, but how that is not necessarily true. It is not true because the IQ test only test people on their ability to solve puzzles, such as the ones he put as examples. The IQ test does not test the people in their ability to think and how many different ways their mind is able to expand. He also states that more people with good IQ's have won more Nobel Prizes than the people with the highest IQ's. It also discussed that this kind of thinking was what cause Terman to be wrong about his special group the "termites". He taught that because they had the highest IQ's they would succeed and all of them would become really successful but he was wrong, some of them became failures. He also discusses about a really smart genius, Chris Langar, and how this guy was even smarter than Einstein. This guy was really smart and had many opportunities to become successful and manage to ruin all of them and end up becoming nothing. Gladwell interviewed him and started asking him questions about the choices he made, Langar was trying to make it sound like a sob story but Gladwell opened it to our eyes how what he said was just nonsense. He also talks about Oppenheimer, how he was really intelligent but often people would not understand him and called him crazy for the things he would do. He was a genius that helped create the atomic bomb but at the same time a crazy man who tried to kill his mentor. He also explains why rich kids are most likely to success that middle class kinds or poor kids. The rich kids succeed more because their parents are more involved with their education and since a young age they teach their children to place themselves at the same level as someone with authority. Unlike the poor kids who parents do not get involved with their education because it is not their job.

Outliers chunk 1

In the first chunk of the non fitctional book "Outliers" author Malcolm Gladwell argues our views of success are incorect and wants to give us a better understanding of how to become successful. In order to become successful you need to have talent and abilty; you can't buy your way into a prosperous life. It takes time and effort to develop "the ability". Outliers is based on men and women who do things out of the ordinary. Asking a successful person about him/herself is not how that person reached the top. He wants to convince us that the fallacy "from nothing to something' does not work. There are hidden advantages and beneficial opportunities given. There is a difference made depending on where and time period we grew up. What is passed down through generations shape patterns of our acheivements. Passion, talent, and hard work is also expected. He uses an anecdote and discusses about the life of the Rosettan people that came here to America and the studies that doctor Stewart Wolf was performing to them. This research and studies help Wolf give people the understanding of health, and the same way with this book Malcolm Gladwell was giving people the understanding of success. Gladwell then begins to discuss the success of famous hockey players, how many of them became successful for the opportunity of practice that was given to them and also for the fact of being born during January-April. It also does this and discusses this with examples of the Beatles, Bill Gates, Bill Joy, and etc., that they got their success from the opportunities given to them. The Beatles got their chance at success when they began playing at a cheap club, it meant nothing playing their but they got practice by playing everyday which made them become successful. Bill Gates got his success by the 9 opportunities that Gladwell list for use and for getting unlimited time programming the computers, the more he programmed the more he became an expert at it. The same for many other including the Billionaires, they were born at the right times when there were beginning new approaches and took advantage of them, and were successful at it. This shows that people who are successful are not born with it the obtain it throughout time and practice. That many of this people have their success for coincidence

But what do you mean?

Deborah Tannen's article But What do You Mean? discusses the biggest areas of miscommunication between men and women. Tannen mainly uses anecdotes and appeals to one's emotion to discuss why men and women often miscommunicate and what can be done so miscommunication will not occur. Her purpose is to tell men and women that if you want to get your message across, then it's not a question of being right, it is a matter of using the correct language or at least language that is understood between both man and women. Deborah Tannen seems to have men and women in mind for her audience; however she it also seems she is directing this article mainly to women.

China Against Obama, Dalai Lama Meeting

According to Time magazine China said Thursday that President Barack Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, when he visits the United States in October. Although a meeting has not been confirmed, every president since George H.W. Bush has met the Dalai Lama, raising the ire of China, which says the Nobel Peace laureate is bent on splitting Tibet from China. "We firmly oppose the Dalai's engagement in separatist activities in any country under whatever capacity and under whatever name," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said when asked to comment on a possible meeting. "We have made representations to the United States urging the U.S. to honor its commitments and not allow the Dalai to engage in separatist activities in the United States," she told a regular news conference. Jiang did not say what would happen if a meeting did take place. China canceled a major summit with the European Union last year because French President Nicolas Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama. A White House visit for the Dalai Lama would be seen as a powerful message to Tibetans and others struggling for human rights around the world, but would come as the United States seeks crucial Chinese cooperation on several crises, such as the global economic recovery efforts and dealing with nuclear standoffs in North Korea and Iran. The Dalai Lama is celebrated in much of the world as a figure of moral authority. In response to China's claims that he seeks Tibetan independence, the Dalai Lama has said repeatedly that he wants only "real autonomy" for Tibet. Obama's administration has already faced criticism that a growing emphasis on U.S-Chinese economic and diplomatic cooperation has fueled reluctance to confront the Chinese on sensitive human rights and trade issues. In February, the Obama administration delighted China when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said during her trip to Beijing that the United States would not let its human rights concerns interfere with cooperation with Beijing.

In California Marijuana Truce, a Legal Gray Area

According to author Alison Stateman (Time magazine), she addresses the reoccuring issue on whether Marijuana should or should not be legal in medical circumstances. Marijuana advocates were not the only ones overjoyed when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that he was ending federal raids on medical marijuana facilities unless they are in violation of both state and federal laws. In budget-strapped California, for one, taxpayers are grateful. There, the fed crackdowns, which had continued despite the end of the state's own raids, got in the way of upwards of $100 million in revenue for Marijuana sale taxes in 2007, according to Americans for Safe Access (ASA), an advocacy group for prescription pot.The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is estimated to have spent more than $10 million from 2005 to 2007 on raids on California dispensaries alone. (Twelve other states have legalized medical marijuana.)The problem is clearly evidenced in the cases of Charles C. Lynch and 30 to 40 other individuals who faced or were incarcerated for medical marijuana-related charges before the Obama Administration relaxed its policy. Lynch was convicted in federal court in 2008 on five counts including distributing marijuana through his dispensary, Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers in Morro Bay, Calif. Lynch, 47, who believed he was complying with state laws regarding the running of his clinic — he had a business license for his dispensary, a nursery license for the marijuana plants he cultivated and the blessing of local city officials, including the mayor — was charged with violating both state and federal laws. Lynch's defense team was not allowed to inform the jury that medical marijuana was legal in the state or that Lynch was compliant with state law. While the Obama Administration cannot reverse the charges against Lynch, St. Pierre says it has great latitude over his sentencing. (State prosecutors have recommended the minimum mandatory sentence of five years in federal prison.) "They could commute his sentence. They can pardon his sentence. The author uses statistics, facts, and anecdotes to establish credibility. Author Stateman's intended audienece would be US adminstrators and US citizens.


Discussion Question:

Clarification:

Do you agree with the author's claim in which she thinks that in lynch"s trial the evident fact that his use and production of marijuana was for medical reasons could not be presented to the jury was not fair?


Application:

What's your take on this issue? Do you think marijuana should be legal in medical cases or in any extent?Explain your position.

Sexting the new epidemic.

According to an author in times magazine "Sexting" is becoming a bigger issue and putting more teens between the ages of 14 and 17 in prision and forced into registering as sex offenders . Sexting is the receiving,sharing,and or sending of naked inappropriate pictures. Most sexting cases are carried out by cell phones and emails. The author discusses the negative effects this can take on a young teens life. Teens are receiving felonies for participating in such acts . In some cases teens are being forced to register as sex offenders and must stay register for approximately 7 years. Although passing and sharing of nude pictures is not a good thing, the author seems to feel the measures being taken are to harsh and these teens don't deserve such hard penalties. The author uses anecdotes,statistics,and other facts to show credibility . The author's purpose is to bring this issue to peoples eyes and let them know this is occuring . The author's intended audience would be teens, parents, and basically everyone that this issue takes affect on .

Discussion Questions:

Clarification:
Do you agree or disagree with the author's notion that the penalties placed upon sexting teens are too harsh?

Application:
What do you think can be done in our society to lower the amount of teens that take action in "sexting"?