“Thinking like a freak” is the way of thinking which is illogical, foolish and the most risky. According to Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner,”thinking like a freak” is very easy, but most people don’t choose it to solve their problems. There are three reasons why people usually hold the idea off from“thinking like a freak”, include: protecting own reputation, making predictions, and getting feedbacks. The first reason why people usually hold the idea off from “thinking like a freak” is protecting their own reputation. Most of people’s reputations are very high and “thinking like a freak” breaks the rule of each people. They can’t do fool things because they’re scared to fail and people around them will laugh at them, no one wants that situation happen. For example, in the book, authors asked readers that which side they would choose to kick if they were kicker for penalty in a soccer game. Most of them may choose to kick left or right depend on their right foot, why …show more content…
When the given problem is showed, they act like they know exactly the answer, and the final result proves that they are completely wrong. For example in the book, elder wine connoisseurs stated that expensive wines are better than cheap wines. The truth was when they had a blind tasting, the result was opposite to what they used to state. The fact is that some cheap wines can taste as good as expensive wine. People like to make a prediction when they are asked to answer questions that they don’t know. Furthermore, encouraging readers to think like a freak, authors want readers to say “I don’t know” instead of making prediction. It can’t be a shame when people say “I don’t know” because it’ll be a motivation for them to say “I know”. As a result, “making prediction” is also the way to prevent people from saying “i don’t know”, which is known as “thinking like a
Boom Let One Slip Away ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – The second night in a row produced the same result, as the Altamonte Springs Boom suffered a 3-2 loss to the Sanford River Rats, at Lake Brantley High School, Wednesday night. They now sit one and one-half games out of first place, with 12 games left in the regular season. They also wasted another quality start by their starting pitcher, this time it was Matt Hardy (Nova Southeastern), who took the hard-luck loss. “I was in a really good groove the first six innings.”
The fictional world is full of chaos, as people tend to prefer unstable theories to countless philosophies. Specifically, there is a literary shift from linearity and order to randomness and fragmentation. Consequently, Postmodernist writers understand that their works are subject to interpretation; however, they believe that the flexibility of understanding in texts is the basis for the development of innovative ideas in society. Moreover, Kurt Dinan writes in a nonlinear, flexible fashion by writing with a component of Mystery. Subsequently, the reader can make different predictions on what will occur throughout Don’t Get Caught, and the ability to predict and analyze uniquely is one of the principal ideals of Postmodernist literature.
Doesn’t is simply speculate? Correct” (32). He poses a possible counterargument then supports his last stated idea. They assume you’ll be able to answer all of their
It makes the reader read faster and get excited or nervous about what will happen next. The emotions I feel is anxious on what will happen next. 11. What has happened?
We couldn't get through the day without being deceptive," (Kornet). Throughout history, many differing ideas about why people
Such wording invokes curiosity in the reader, making the author’s argument more
The movie “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” gives an inside look into the life of a patient living in a mental institution; helping to give a new definition of mental illnesses. From a medical standpoint, determinants of mental illness are considered to be internal; physically and in the mind, while they are seen as external; in the environment or the person’s social situation, from a sociological perspective (Stockton, 2014). Additionally, the movie also explores the idea of power relations that exist between an authorized person (Nurse Ratched) and a patient and further looks into the punishment a deviant actor receives (ie. McMurphy contesting Nurse Ratched). One of the sociological themes that I have observed is conformity.
Nicholas Carr is “an American journalist and technology writer” who attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Over the past decade, Carr has examined and studied the different impacts that computers have on our life and the “social consequences” of this new technology (Carr 123). In “A Thing Like Me” by Nicholas Carr, the author claims that technology is overpowering and dominating our lives. Carr expands on this idea further by defining it as people using “tools that allow them to extend their abilities” (Carr 124). To help with his argument, Carr uses a historical narrative about the creation of computer software, named ELIZA.
This week, the readings point the spotlight at the some of the depressing hardships that the African-American population frequently experience. In “Naughty by Nature”, Ann Ferguson covers the different perceptions that society has of colored boys. David Knight’s work “Don’t tell young black males that they are endangered” seeks to explain the differents outcomes of African-American youth that arise when society constantly oppresses them. The last article by Carla O’Connor, “The Culture of Black Femininity and School Success”, focuses on the image of African-American woman that is created as a result of them attempting to preserve in a system that opposes them.
Levitt and Dubner style adds an extra effect to the book. Through multiple rhetorical strategies, the authors are able to create friendly, but persuasive writing style. The authors really used the pathos, logos, and ethos strategy when creating Freakonomics. The pathos appeal was mostly done through humor.
Once the reader begins to question the lack of explanation surrounding the event, a suspenseful tone beings to grow. Due to the unexpected
Death. While the outcome is the same for everyone, no two people live the same lives. Ivan Ilych was a character in Leo Tolstoy 's novel The Death of Ivan Ilych. Ivan was a selfish lawer who was unhappy with his life until right before he died. Portrayed in the movie Into the Wild, Christopher McCandless was a free spirit he did what he want when he wanted.
¨Remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not.¨ This is an amazing quote from the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. To begin all of Max´s life he's been called stupid, dumb and weird. Max learned how to be alone until Freak came along. Freak is suffering from morquio syndrome, which give him a little body and a big heart.
Transcendentalism is a philosophy which says that in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process that governs the nature of experience. “I Now Walk Into the Wild” by Chip Brown tells the story of Chris McCandless, a young man who believed in nonconformity and risk-taking, and his journey to “kill the false being within.” Chris was an incredibly hard-working and strong-willed person. McCandless kicked off his transcendental lifestyle on his high school cross country team by taking off on runs with one purpose: to get lost. During his early years of college, he developed a mental list of possessions deemed unnecessary.
SUMMARY Thinking Like a Mountain is a phase used in he book “A Sand County Almanac” by the famous author Aldo Leopold. Aldo Leopold is considered to be a renowned ecologist and a forester who taught Wildlife Management at the University of Wisconsin. He was considered to be one of the foremost writers in America. Thinking Like a Mountain is a narration of the Leopold when he first time watched a wolf die and he wonders what the mountains might know which the other people never realized.