By Malcolm Gladwell
Published in 2000
Gladwell goes into looking at how neutral a facial expression can be. He describes how three reporters were reacting to a variety of subjects. Based on a scale of 1-21, 1 being the most negative and 21 being the most positive, two of the reporters were seen as unbiased to a political subject on Mondale and Reagan, two people from different political parties. The third reporter, working for ABC News, seemed to change his facial features in a more positive way when speaking of Reagan. The analysis of that is that he is biased towards Reagan. From just his facial expressions, he influenced just about 75% of the people watching ABC News into voting for Reagan in an election. I like to think of my facial expressions as being neutral. My friends seem to think so, and I feel as if my face seems to decide that it has to look happy half the time and neutral the other half the time, which seems to mean that I am unhappy. That is just what I have been told. Personally I'm not to sure, but I could agree with it.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Tipping Point
By Malcolm Gladwell
Published in 2000
The salesman, Tom Gau, had a very interesting quote,"if you don't try, you'll never succeed". This quote is described in literary by a special name, that I can't remember, that means that these are words of wisdom. Tom Gau is right, how can something be accomplished if never attempted? In my life, I tend to sit by and let things happen. As described in the book, Tom Gau tries and has moments of success, such as when he able to persuade a home owner to sell his beautiful home at a ridiculously price for its value. But what is success? I see success as a description of how the aspects of a person's life changes. It is when you are in a decent, if not good, position, and it doesn't get worse. Just as long as things don't get worse. But that isn't really a description of success, it is rather a description of life and how I see that life should isn't bad till it gets worse.
Published in 2000
The salesman, Tom Gau, had a very interesting quote,"if you don't try, you'll never succeed". This quote is described in literary by a special name, that I can't remember, that means that these are words of wisdom. Tom Gau is right, how can something be accomplished if never attempted? In my life, I tend to sit by and let things happen. As described in the book, Tom Gau tries and has moments of success, such as when he able to persuade a home owner to sell his beautiful home at a ridiculously price for its value. But what is success? I see success as a description of how the aspects of a person's life changes. It is when you are in a decent, if not good, position, and it doesn't get worse. Just as long as things don't get worse. But that isn't really a description of success, it is rather a description of life and how I see that life should isn't bad till it gets worse.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Tipping Point
By Malcolm Gladwell
Published in 2000
The “Tipping Point” is dense. That is to say it brings about an in depth way of describing how epidemics are caused by. I just finished a part where Gladwell explains 3 types of people that can cause epidemics. These people are known as Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen. Connectors basically know lots of people. Mavens are experts in their fields of information and have a need to help others. Salesman are charismatic men who are very good at persuasion. Of course these are not the only ways that Gladwell describes these people, I am only touching on them and their traits. Gladwell knows lots of people to help further describes these people in his book. I know a great amount of people, Facebook tells me I have a lot of friends. I am not sure how to classify them, if I could, as Connectors, Mavens, or Salesmen. The television can be a great help however, because I was watching “Spongebob Squarepants” and saw the best example of a Maven. The episode was about Spongebob sharing his jellyfish jelly with a customer of the Krusty Krab. That customer spreads the word of the amazing taste of a jellyfish jelly krabby patty and everyone listens to him. The word spreads so fast and Mr.Krabs, the owner of the restaurant, becomes obsessed with making a profit of the jelly. That customer is exactly how Gladwell describes a Maven.
Published in 2000
The “Tipping Point” is dense. That is to say it brings about an in depth way of describing how epidemics are caused by. I just finished a part where Gladwell explains 3 types of people that can cause epidemics. These people are known as Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen. Connectors basically know lots of people. Mavens are experts in their fields of information and have a need to help others. Salesman are charismatic men who are very good at persuasion. Of course these are not the only ways that Gladwell describes these people, I am only touching on them and their traits. Gladwell knows lots of people to help further describes these people in his book. I know a great amount of people, Facebook tells me I have a lot of friends. I am not sure how to classify them, if I could, as Connectors, Mavens, or Salesmen. The television can be a great help however, because I was watching “Spongebob Squarepants” and saw the best example of a Maven. The episode was about Spongebob sharing his jellyfish jelly with a customer of the Krusty Krab. That customer spreads the word of the amazing taste of a jellyfish jelly krabby patty and everyone listens to him. The word spreads so fast and Mr.Krabs, the owner of the restaurant, becomes obsessed with making a profit of the jelly. That customer is exactly how Gladwell describes a Maven.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Mission Black List #1
By Eric Maddox with David Seay
published in 2009
One thing I like about this book, other then the insightful facts from the books, is that in the middle of the book, there a pictures. While reading the book, I had a hard time visualizing some of the characteristics of of Iraq. At many times in the book, there are references to many places and people, as I stated before. When reading a book, a good thing to do to keep track is to visualize the plot and setting. The pictures really help with that visualization by giving me a view of the area. They also show the High Value Targets cards. Many books do not have pictures. True, pictures are a bit childish but they can help the reader understand the book. One picture isn't a picture at all. It is a diagram that shows the family tree of Saddam Hussein. This family tree really helps you follow the long complicated array of names the Maddox uses in the book.
published in 2009
One thing I like about this book, other then the insightful facts from the books, is that in the middle of the book, there a pictures. While reading the book, I had a hard time visualizing some of the characteristics of of Iraq. At many times in the book, there are references to many places and people, as I stated before. When reading a book, a good thing to do to keep track is to visualize the plot and setting. The pictures really help with that visualization by giving me a view of the area. They also show the High Value Targets cards. Many books do not have pictures. True, pictures are a bit childish but they can help the reader understand the book. One picture isn't a picture at all. It is a diagram that shows the family tree of Saddam Hussein. This family tree really helps you follow the long complicated array of names the Maddox uses in the book.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Mission Black List #1
By Eric Maddox with David Seay
published in 2009
The title of this book is interesting. Mission: Black List #1. This title explains the method of how fugitives were titled. There is a list of the fugitives called the Black List. There were 55 fugitives for the U.S. Military in Iraq. There are 55 cards in a deck of cards, if you add 3 jokers. Put two and two together and you get a deck of cards with the faces a number of an order of fugitives. These people are described as High Value Targets. The first one is obvious, Saddam Hussein, the main fugitive of this book. Saddam was the Ace of Spades. The book even has a photo of Saddam's Ace of Spades card. His two sons were Black List #2 and #3 but they had died in a bloody shoot-out. Black #4 was his presidential secretary, #5 was his notorious chemical user, #6 was a military advisor, and etc. This list was devised as a way of keeping track to those who had the most power in Iraq. Because of the organization to this information, the events that occurred in Iraq were executed swifter and the connections between people that could lead to Saddam could be made.
published in 2009
The title of this book is interesting. Mission: Black List #1. This title explains the method of how fugitives were titled. There is a list of the fugitives called the Black List. There were 55 fugitives for the U.S. Military in Iraq. There are 55 cards in a deck of cards, if you add 3 jokers. Put two and two together and you get a deck of cards with the faces a number of an order of fugitives. These people are described as High Value Targets. The first one is obvious, Saddam Hussein, the main fugitive of this book. Saddam was the Ace of Spades. The book even has a photo of Saddam's Ace of Spades card. His two sons were Black List #2 and #3 but they had died in a bloody shoot-out. Black #4 was his presidential secretary, #5 was his notorious chemical user, #6 was a military advisor, and etc. This list was devised as a way of keeping track to those who had the most power in Iraq. Because of the organization to this information, the events that occurred in Iraq were executed swifter and the connections between people that could lead to Saddam could be made.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Mission Black List #1
By Eric Maddox with David Seay
published in 2009
The slightly different path that Maddox uses came from an interpretor named Jared. Jared describes to Maddox a list, he has developed and kept up to date, that shows bodyguards of Saddam Hussein. Jared's advice that leads Maddox to find Hussein is to “Focus on Saddam's bodyguards. For that reason, this book has so many names that sometimes it gets hard to follow. Anyway, all the bodyguards are related to Saddam and also have sub-tribes. After going over the list with Maddox, Jared makes sure to inscribe some important names into Maddox, names such as Muhammad Al-Haddoushi. Basically, Jared believes that there may be still be a connection between Saddam and his bodyguards. Maddox agrees with this theory and tries to use his skills as an interrogator to find the information he is looking for. Now before you can interrogate, you must first have a suspect. In this book, the way to obtain a suspect was by means of raids. These raids were preplanned by 12 hours and executed by an elite team of soldiers. At first, the team doesn't understand why Maddox wants to obtain certain people that almost have no relation to Saddam, but then as he becomes more experienced, they take his advice. Because he gained that experience, he was able to lead the team to their end goal, Saddam Hussein.
published in 2009
The slightly different path that Maddox uses came from an interpretor named Jared. Jared describes to Maddox a list, he has developed and kept up to date, that shows bodyguards of Saddam Hussein. Jared's advice that leads Maddox to find Hussein is to “Focus on Saddam's bodyguards. For that reason, this book has so many names that sometimes it gets hard to follow. Anyway, all the bodyguards are related to Saddam and also have sub-tribes. After going over the list with Maddox, Jared makes sure to inscribe some important names into Maddox, names such as Muhammad Al-Haddoushi. Basically, Jared believes that there may be still be a connection between Saddam and his bodyguards. Maddox agrees with this theory and tries to use his skills as an interrogator to find the information he is looking for. Now before you can interrogate, you must first have a suspect. In this book, the way to obtain a suspect was by means of raids. These raids were preplanned by 12 hours and executed by an elite team of soldiers. At first, the team doesn't understand why Maddox wants to obtain certain people that almost have no relation to Saddam, but then as he becomes more experienced, they take his advice. Because he gained that experience, he was able to lead the team to their end goal, Saddam Hussein.
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