How does outliers connect to my life

In Malcom Gladwell's Outliers, the book describes several ways in which opportunities effect the outcome and success of certain people. The book also describes how these opportunities can effect all of us in our life. After reading Outliers I have made several connections to how these certain opportunities have effected to my life and lead to my success.
                 One connection to my life I have made from Outliers is my academic success in subjects such as Global. In the chapter about lawyers and their success due to being Jewish and being born in the 1930s I have amde the connection that the reason i find Global intersting and not as challenging as other classes is because of my family history. In the chapter about lawyers, Gladwell explains that the lawyers he discusses were successful mainly because their jewish culture and convenient birth date. "It's 1930, because that would give the lawyer the benefit of a blessedly small generation." (156). I find that my ease with the subject of global comes from my parents who are both archaeologists. History is a subject that cannot be avoided in my house, when it is discussed it is discussed in depth and in a correct manor. We know what we are talking about. This is one connection to how outliers connects to my life.
              Another way in which Outliers connects to my life is in the fact that I learned how to read and write before oct of my peers.  In Outliers Gladwell discusses how what part of the year you are born with effects your ability compared to athletic competitors. "...a twelve month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity."(24). True, Gladwell is talking about physical maturity rather than mental maturity but because I was born on the 22 of december i was born close to the school cut off. That put me in a class of children who are generally younger, and generally less academically mature. Yes there is an exception to every rule but because most of the english material came easily to me, due to the fact I could easily wrap my head around the material I soon advanced through normal classes. Because I was smart enough I could challenge myself in reading and writing, similar to the way in which Gladwell describes a tall basketball player challenging himself in other athletic skills "Once someone is tall enough, then we starts to care about speed and court sense and agility and ball handling skills and shooting touch." (86) Now I have been in two english honors classes and tend to keep my grade up above and 87. This connects my life to Outliers because it is similar to the section on hockey players and their birth dates.
            The third way in which Outliers connects to my life is my observation of the different system in which parents raise their children. Gladwell discusses the use of "Cultivate Parenting"a form of parenting in which parents encourage their children to be comfortable around adults, asks questions to which they want answer and not to be afraid of authority. Gladwell says on page 103 "They expect their children to talk back to them, to negotiate, to question adults in positions of authority." I remember sitting in the car of my cousin and listening to the way that him and his mother conversed. They talked about things that me and my parents talk about but in a different way. My cousins mother asked a lot of questions and whatever they were talking about was analyzed deeply. I remember thinking that the way they were talking was annoying to me. Its not as if my parents are bad parents and were are in no way poor, but "Cultivate parenting" was more intense in my cousins house hold than mine and I picked up on it. This is a connection between Outliers and my life because I have picked up on what Gladwell is saying about cultivate parenting.
              Outliers, bu Malcom Gladwell connects to my life in severely ways. I'm sure it connects in more ways than the tree that I have listed. I believe that success is a combination of determination, effort, luck and opportunity. AS Gladwell says "The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But intact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities..." (19)  I also believe that is important to recognize these things. Outliers is a great and interesting read to which we can all make connections to in the confusion and adventure of life.

Blog: Shoe Poetry Prompt

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When I see these fancy shoes the thing that I think of is a classy elderly man. This man, whos name i think should be "Big Bobby" gre up in New York city during the thirties. His father was a big time banker and a well known philanthropist. "Big Bobby" followed in his fathers footsteps and went to school to become a banker and a buisness man. Big bobby was a straping kind young lad. All the ladies wanted him and all the men wanted to be him. After school Big Bobby went off to tour the world visiting Europe africa and Australia. while in Africa he tamed several adult lions to look after sick children. He also invented a vaccine for a disease in Africa which worked so well no one knows what the disease is anymore. while he was traviling in europe he punched 50 nazis in the face at the same time while saving a kitten and a puppy from a house fire. because of this he is known as Big -nazi punching-puppy-cat-fire-saving-bobby-guy. granted not very creative but a respectful title all the same. Upon his return to America his Banking Buisness took off. It soon became the richist buiseness in the World. Big Bobby was modest with his prophets. He kept the wadges of his workers high and was a well known philanthropist. he strted 10 charities and saved millions of lives that otherwise would have been swallowed up by poverty and drugs. when Big bobby was thirty five he met the love of his life -Famous Egyptologist and Archeaologist: Elanore Thornhill. Bobby and elanore had four kids together and adopted three others. In their old age Bobby and Elanore were foster parents for poor children and their puppies. Elanore and Big bobby traveled the world together during the last years of their lives on a sailing boat built out of bio-degradable recycled materials. Big Bobby and Elanore died on the same day, Christmas day- at the same time in the tropical paradise of Madagascar. To this day people all over the world grieve their deaths. hes got some pretty kick butt shoes.

Microfiction:The scent of lavendar was overpowering.

The scent of lavender was overpowering. The sound of the trees moving in the wind was all around us. There we were, in a lavender field on the side of a hill, a whole country stretched out beneath us on the best summer day possible. It should have been a happy moment, but it was the scariest moment of my life. All five of us were sprinting from our captors, the only five that escaped. I feel like we have been sprinting for hours. We must have been. The truck exploded right before sunrise, the sun had now been up for an hour, maybe an hour and a half. The driver was killed, i was sure of that, there was no way that our captor would now that we got away till they realized the truck was missing.

              My sleep deprived brain was trying to work out what had happened over the last couple days. I was pulled out of school-called into the principles office for a talk. When i walked into the office, i was grabbed, stabbed with a needle and passed out. The next thing i knew i was sitting in a padded room with 10 other people, all of them scared all of them young like me. A man walked into the room and told us that we were here to be "evaluated". We were to be shipped to an island off the coast the following morning. We sat there all nigh and at what must have been three we were put in a truck and taken away. The truck exploded about four hours into the drive. I don't know who died, but the drivers i just know that five of is got away for certain and were now running through the country side trying to get as far away as possible from the sight of the accident. Right now all five of us had were running to a chain of mountains. Not a word was spoken all day. At noon we started to walk. We walked on and on, into woods and we reached the bottom of those mountains and climbed. At dusk we came to a waterfall. Behind the waterfall was a cave in which we set up camp . We all went out and gathered firewood. in thirty minuets we had a fire going thanks to a lighter i had in my pocket. 

          questions were asked over the thundering of the waterfall and we learned that all of us were taken out of school. We learned that all of us lived in the same state and we learned that all of us had twins. Then the loudest thunder sounded somewhere, it kept getting closer and closer and thats when i woke up. The end

TU Tuesday blog editorial

My editorial was about the education gap between low and high income students. This particular case was talking about Connecticut where the Governor  created a group called the Connecticut Commission on Educational Achievement to fix the problem. I didn't like this article much. it didn't have a point of view and thats no overstatement, it really didn't. It was only three paragraphs long and included facts only. The sentence with the most voice in it had to be "It's not likely (the commissioners) are going to just hand over their 30-page report and move on. They're going to press for long-needed change." and i don't even think that was the author talking. 

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Creative Contest blog 1!

Q=queen Elizabeth poket beagles

Diet. Dog food recommended for smaller dogs, should watch weight of the dog have been known to gain weight easily which can lead to heart and joint issues

Breed description: Not a pure bread. A cross breed.


Appearance: The Queen Elizabeth pocket beagle is a small Beagle about 13 inches long. They are usually
brown and white.

Temperament: They are a good tempered family dog. More of a house pet than a hunting dog. bBecome very excited.

Health: less venerable to typical beagle defects. Beagles tent to stay healthier longer than most dogs.

Shedding: Very little.

Diet:

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Culinary Poetry Prompt-Peanut butter and jelly toast.

We all like fancy food
Food that sizzles
Food that gleams
food served on a fancy plate

I Like Fancy food
Spagetti
Brotwurst
Ratatouille

But sometimes
when I need something
when I wake up hungry
or need a snack
I take some bread
fire up the toaster
and make
Peanut butter
and
Jelly
Toast