EVIDENCES: Observation, Experiment, Anecdote, Opinion, Claims, Quote
Chapter 1
Roseto Valfortore
Experimental Anecdote: makes use of the Italian village as an example of an outlier.
"These people were dying of old age. That's it."
American Experiment.
Chapter 2
Hockey Championship
Tigers Vs Giants
Canadian Example
"The Tigers and the Giants were the two
finest teams in the Canadian Hockey League"
~ Weak Claim (no evidence provided)
Emotive/Pathos: "In the center of the room the
Giants’ coach, Don Hay, stood misty-eyed."
Chapter 4
FACTOR: LIFESTYLE
FACTOR: MERIT (CANNOT BE BOUGHT)
Jeb Bush
American
“I think overall it’s a disadvantage,” Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy Wall Street banker and US senator.
FACTOR: PEOPLE ARE NOT SELF-MADE
our MODERN HERO is born in modest circumstances and by virtue of his own grit and talent fights his way to greatness.
AMERICAN QUOTE
Credible
Chapter 20
Biologists
Science Phenomena: Observation
"But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them?" = Rhetorical Question
Evaluative --> uses critical thinking
global phenomena
FACTOR: ENVIRONMENT
Personal Life: A JAMAICAN STORY
Gladwell's testimony: "She did not feel that the Jamaican context was enough. My grandmother wanted more for her daughter."
Personal Bias
Vested Interest
FACTOR: CULTURE
Interview
With Malcolm Gladwell
Specific questions with specific answers
Review of the book = main ideas + themes
Biased; since it is his own book
FACTOR: HISTORY
PERSONAL TESTIMONY: These were history’s gifts to my family— and if the resources of that grocer, the fruits of those riots, the possibilities of that culture, and the privileges of that skin tone had been extended to others, how many more would now live a life of fulfillment, in a beautiful house high on a hill?