Not everyone is fortunate enough to be granted with opportunities-- a chance at success. Even then, not everyone is able to utilize them to the fullest -- if the person even takes advantage of it at all. Granted, if the opportunity was even realized in the first place. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers, essentially defines an outlier as a person that takes advantage of a set of opportunities presented to them. These sets of opportunities are not available to everyone and Wes Moore, the author of The Other Wes Moore, happens to be one of the few were fortunate enough to have a set of opportunities prepare him for success. The opportunities began building from the moment Moore’s grandparents stepped foot in America, and Wes Moore began to fully reap their benefits when he enrolled in military school. All the fortunate incidents and chances presented to Moore throughout his life lead to his achievements and overall success in life, making him an outlier of his time. What Wes Moore experiences can …show more content…
This motive drove her to work all day and ask for money to get Wes into Valley Forge. According to Gladwell’s novel, Wes Moore’s family’s child rearing style would be categorized into “‘concerted cultivation’” (Gladwell 104). His family overlooked what he did and took action based on what they seen, which is exactly what concerted cultivation is: “an attempt to actively ‘foster and assess a child's talents, opinions and skills.’” (Gladwell 104). In Moore’s novel, his mother is a huge part of him-- she makes sure that Wes knows what is right from wrong. She would scold Wes for hitting a girl and she would make sure Wes is in a proper educational environment to prevent him from making bad decisions. Wes’s grandparents set a curfew for him so he would not stay out late and get in trouble. All these things were done to keep Wes in check, something that the other kids he lived in his neighborhood in both Cherry Hill and the Bronx did not
With Louie’s dreams broken, he was involved in the war. Throughout his war experiences, Louie faces a time of extreme hardships and brutalities, later making him mentally ill postwar. However, even throughout these difficulties, many people can reflect from his experiences and learn many life lessons that Louie shows in his experiences. In Louie’s experiences, one of the things he shows to readers is to show endurance and to stay persistent.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell more than anything, is a lesson about certain anomalies in the world. Outliers shows us how in every major success story, there are a few key outliers that make the biggest of differences. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell looks into the components contributing to extremely successful people. His main examples consist of Canadian hockey players, being born in January, February, and March, Bill Gates and key moments that helped him gain his extreme wealth, and Joseph Flom, who built Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the richest and most successful law firms in the world.
Malcolm Gladwell in chapter nine of Outliers argues that to become an outlier, one has to be given a chance and he/she has to be willing to put effort to seize it. Gladwell uses Marita, who went to KIPP Academy, as an example. Marita wakes up at “five-forty-five a.m.” to prepare for school, and “leaves school at five p.m.” (pg.264). That’s almost a half day spent at school, which leaves little time for Marita’s responsibilities. However, KIPP promised that it will give her “a chance to get out” (pg.267) of poverty, and nonetheless Marita studied day to night in hopes of a much better future.
Her father had to give up his lifelong dream of becoming a doctor because he was unable to afford school and take care of his growing family. Due to this he ended up becoming a janitor . Throughout her work she draws on her own life experiences. In one poem she states “And i shall prime my children/ pray, to pray”(brooks11-12).
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell teaches you the understanding of success. Malcolm Gladwell in the book Outliers uses logos, pathos, and ethos to get his argument across. Outliers was written for the purpose to show the audience that success isn’t all on how hard you work, raw talent, intelligence or personality traits. Success comes from your culture, who your parents are, when you were born and the opportunities you have been given. The argument by logic, emotion and character are all put into Outliers to convince the readers that success is what you make of it.
Larry’s story during the War and his life after help us understand that military experiences molds
Have you ever gone above and beyond to make yourself proud?Well in the book Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac you read about a navajo marine and his time in war. His name is Ned he was first sent to a boarding school for navajos and then he signed up to fight in war. In the book it tells about the many mixed emotions Ned has about being a marine. Ned wanted to be a marine for a while. He realized he wanted to be in the marines during boarding school.
We can assume that people work hard and gain success because that’s how our ideals are not our realities. This book has help strengthen my critical thinking skills as well as reading skills. I make sure to question and evaluate what I am reading and how things get set in motion to become successful. In the book Outliers, it was discussed that The Matthew Effect is essentially “For unto everyone that
He admits, “Attending OCC and working at the shoe store was different from what I set out for…. It wasn’t humiliating, it was humbling” (60). Dr. Cleamon Moore’s off track segment affects me abundantly. His father’s wise words assure me a few facts of life: all things are hard to come by, but with sacrifice and prayer, everything that seems improbable will become less impossible. Cleamon Moore does not have an
Gladwell’s Argument in Outliers Success is a concept that is constantly altered and has a different meaning from person to person. The stereotypical definition of success would be someone who has a high-paying job or is in the upper-class. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers: The Story of Success, approaches the concept of success in a different and unique way. Gladwell discusses how opportunities, cultural legacy, and hard work all coincide with each other to produce real success. He uses mostly logic and multiple unrelated anecdotes to support and provide evidence for his statements.
Growing up, Wes did not have anyone else to look up to besides his older brother Tony, that was involved in
Nature and Nurture vs. Persistence Nature and nurture are often seen as opponents in terms of determining personality and success. Early thinkers such as Descartes and Plato would argue that our personalities are genetically predisposed, while John Locke, a highly influential 17th century philosopher, would argue that our mind is a tabula rasa, a blank slate that gets “carved” by our early childhood experiences. In the novel Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell essentially joins both opposing perspectives together and examines the different ways people attain success through arbitrary elements such as luck, childhood experiences, cultural legacies, and even birth date. The idea of success can be subjective, but overall, it is an accomplishment that
Being the loving person she was towards her family and students, Christa put family and teaching both at top priority. “Christa loved her husband and family too much to dash away for a year of high-tech fantasies. She went to Washington because she wanted to teach about a new frontier, about personal challenge and about the power of her much- maligned profession” (12). This quote explains why Christa had to choose between her family and space, which was the desire to gain new experience so that she can teach her students from a different perspective. Unfortunately, neither of her two beloved young children understood her challenge.
Abstract- Outlier detection is an active area for research in data set mining community. Finding outliers from a collection of patterns is a very well-known problem in data mining. Outlier Detection as a branch of data mining has many applications in data stream analysis and requires more attention. An outlier is a pattern which is dissimilar with respect to the rest of the patterns in the data set. Detecting outliers and analyzing large data sets can lead to discovery of unexpected knowledge in area such as fraud detection, telecommunication, web logs, and web document, etc.
In the book Outliers, Gladwell slowly began to crumble my faulty beliefs and starts to show me that having the highest IQ doesn’t necessarily mean one will be successful and that you can achieve success no matter what college one goes to. Society began to embed in my mind that I needed to attend a school of high ranking so that I could be successful. How does a school get ranked when they all offer the same Bachelor’s or Associate's Degree? This belief started to break down as I began to become more independent during high school. I’ve realized that we are all so focused on this number that society has placed that we are ignoring reality.