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This podcast by Malcolm Gladwell titled ” The Big Man Can’t Shoot” talks about the concept on why good ideas and why they are so difficult to spread. They give perfect examples using famous basketball players and there method of shooting that nobody wants to use to this day. So why don;t people want toContinue reading “Blog Post 9: Revisionist History”

The Heritage talks about the matter of the American military paying sports team for promotions such as walking the flag across the field before game, letting a soldier take the first pitch, and more. They are trying to debate if this is wrong to do or not. Sports teams and the military are like bestContinue reading “Blog Post 8: The Heritage”

This podcast by Gladwell enlightens the concept that doing good makes it feel acceptable to do bad after, and when does doing good leading into doing more good. They give excellent evidence used from real life situations that occurred such as the artist of the painting Role Call not being accepted as a member ofContinue reading “Blog Post 7: Revisionist History”

Part 3 of They Say, I Say talks about properly quoting and common mistakes in quoting. Such as hit and run quotes, how to make sure your quote is relevant, and everybody can understand what the quote means. HIT AND RUN QUOTES: In a car accident, if someone hits you and runs from the sceneContinue reading “They Say, I Say Pt.3”

By: Alex Milewski Marco Capovilla and Venezia Pulita took this photo on March 8th, 2020 in Venice, Italy 2. The message behind this picture is that with covid-19 impacting Italy deeply and causing residents to be quarantined. Has lead to there not being as many people out which entails that not as many are litteringContinue reading “The Hidden Advantage”

In this article by Freeman and Merskin, they go over how men are pressure in a way by society and how they live and operate daily in life. They talked about how men are suppose to eat meat in society and the male species are pushed away from veganism, organic foods, and other healthy foods.Continue reading “Blog Post 5: Having it his way”

In this second installment of They Say, I Say by Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein they talk about the “I say” part of writing. In simpler terms its about how to clearly and effectively give your own opinion on a topic or subject. They go in depth on the three type of ways to respondContinue reading “They Say, I Say Part II”

Evidence is a body of facts or information making something a fact. For example, the evidence cheese is a dairy product; because its produced from milk, the king of dairy. Evidence is a crucial factor of lawsuits, criminal issues, and mostly credibility. If you say something and you swear its the truth, if you haveContinue reading “Evidence Will Always Win”

Perception is how you view objects, what you believe an object is when you first see it, what you think the object means when you see/hear it. Perception is essentially how your brain works and what translates in your head when viewing or hearing something. Perception has a lot of physiological factors such as mentalContinue reading “Is It There or NOT!?!?!”

With there being about 6,500 languages in the world, languages are always changing with a new generation. One generation uses words as hot to describe temperature another generation uses hot to describe a man or woman. These are essentially synonyms. They are languages that aren’t fully established as a language that almost everyone in theContinue reading “Universal Language”