The 10‚000 Hour Rule by Malcolm Gladwell By Rachel Henke | Submitted On October 27‚ 2011 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Rachel Henke ’Outliers‚’ by Malcolm Gladwell is one of the classics
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Black Like me The book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a moving true story of how a white man manages to experience what it is like to be a “Negro” or black person in the 1950s. The author did this social experiment by taking medication and dying his skin a deep brown. He wanted to really experience the challenges and changes a black man in this time would go through. By traveling through the far south‚ Griffin got a taste of what real life was for a Negro. The experiment starts in the
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Black Like Me Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a Multicultural story set in the south around the late 1950’s in first person point of view about John Griffin in 1959 in the deep south of the east coast‚ who is a novelist that decides to get his skin temporarily darkened medically to black. What Griffin hopes to achieve is enough information about the relationships between blacks and whites to write a book about it.The overall main obstacle is society‚ and the racial divide in the south
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Megan Ward Black Like Me Dialectical Journal Quotation From the Text Page Number Response “How else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? Though we lived side by side throughout the South communication between the two races had simply ceased to exist?” Pg. 1 Unless you become someone or maybe go through some of the same things they’ve experienced‚ you will never truly understand them. “I had tampered with the mystery of existence and I had lost the sense of my
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Black Like Me is about a middle aged white man living in Texas in the late 50’s and early 60’s. He is deeply committed to the cause of racial injustice. He decides to temporarily become a black man and sets out to explore the racial injustice a African American deals with on a daily basis. After this experiment he realizes that racism is a result of social condition‚ and not any inherent quality within blacks or whites. He pleads for tolerance and understanding between the races. The author and
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Malcolm Gladwell argues that we have to spend 10‚000 hours in order to master a skill. Elon Musk has worked 100 hours a week for more than 15 years which is a total of 76‚000 hours. Perhaps‚ this is one of the reasons why he is one of the biggest outliers. Elon Musk is a 39-year-old engineer and entrepreneur. At 28‚ he co-founded popular e-payment company Paypal. He then went on to start spaceX‚ the first private company to launch a rocket into space‚ and Tesla motors‚ which builds electric cars
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In the novel Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin‚ the title is used as an allusion to a line in the poem “Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes. In this poem Hughes writes of his wishes to end racism. He writes “Rest at pale evening… / A tall slim tree… / Night coming tenderly / Black like me.” John Howard Griffin who longed to address the issue of race thought that with the title it would reach out to not only to the whites but also to the blacks. Carmihael Stokely states “Black Like Me is an excellent
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Plot Summary: Black Like Me was written by John Howard Griffin about his adventure in some southern states and what he observed when he pigmented his skin to be an African American; who at the time was being discriminated against. Throughout his experiment he experienced many things including racism‚ discrimination‚ and survival. Griffin was a privileged southern white from Texas. During the pigmentation process he set out for New Orleans‚ once the procedure was done completely‚ he seen things
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help him publish the book he soon wants to make after his experiment. The experiment is to change his skin color to black and try to resolve discrimination with the black and white people. Mr. Levitan thinks this is a crazy idea and thinks he’s sure to get killed the second someone finds out about what he’s doing. This shows that it was extremely dangerous to try anything like this back in that time period because everyone was very pro-racism. I think it shouldn’t have to be dangerous to do
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In 1959‚ John Howard Griffin‚ a white man from Texas‚ did an experiment. He darkened his skin using drugs and a sun lamp to pass for a black man. He then toured Mississippi‚ Alabama‚ and Louisiana by buses and hitchhiking. Griffin recorded his experiences in his book Black Like Me‚ first published in 1961 (Karr). This was a positive experiment because by publishing his experiences it crossed racial lines and made Caucasian people‚ as well as African Americans‚ rethink their views. Griffin
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