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At the start of “Carlos doesn’t remember” by Revisionist History Malcolm Gladwell sits down with a young boy who he calls Carlos. Carlos starts off by answering Gladwell’s questions and informs us about an interest of his. For instance mathematics although it may be his interest carlos exceeded on every other subject granting him aContinue reading “Darkest Forest”

“The Man Can’t Shoot” by Revisionist History tells the story of once known as one of the greatest basketball player Wilt Chamberlain. Starting his journey in the NBA Chamberlain excelled in everything defense, free throws, even shooting under tremendous amount of pressure. But, that was not always the case you see Malcolm Gladwell explains thatContinue reading “Increase Your Threshold”

In the “Blame Game” By Revisionist History Malcolm Gladwell begins with informing us about the catastrophe with the Toyota company. How, Mark Sailor a 45 year old lad that just had been assigned a Lexus IS as a loaner vehicle after dropping his vehicle off to a Toyota dealership due to the cd player notContinue reading “Who’s at fault?”

Chapter 8 of “They say, I say” Goes into a few methods of methods. For instance, connect your sentence while writing it could be an essay, book, or news paper…Etc. whatever you are writing it is always a good thing to connect the sentence as on page 101 gives the example “spot is a goodContinue reading “Techniques of a great writer”

Are you lost in this world like me was created by Artist Steve Cutts and Moby and The Void Pacific Choir. The intended Message of this particular piece was to inform the viewers of what modern society has become. Steve Cutts said “For me the video is about our increasing dependence on technology and aboutContinue reading “Not Fully There!”

Can putting away the phones be a bad thing? As we have entered the new year things seem to change for instance the way we dress, our eating habits, our perspective on things, even the group of people we call our friends. But, when it comes to the usage of our handy dandy smart phonesContinue reading “It’s just for a short period of time.”

Many Readers tend to lose interest in peoples statement. It is due to the credibility or how the statement is served. In they say I say it goes into detail on how as a writer can you catch and keep your audiences. So the question is does these steps make your statement much more effective?Continue reading “Was it effective or not?”

What exactly is evidence? What is valid and what it not? For many years people have defined it as facts or information indicating whether a believe or proposition is valid or correct. Kathryn Schulz in “Evidence”, a chapter of her book called being wrong, that we need to “learn to actively combat our inductive biases:Continue reading “Truth or self believe”

The term perception is the ability to understand and interpret something visual, hearing, or mentally. Perception is an ideology mindset of how people view and interpret something in there own way. Social media, past experience, or current beliefs have a part in the matter on how perception is defined. A group of authors gives thereContinue reading “view point of many eyes”

From stacking decks to passing go and collect 200 to pressing buttons in your living room couch. The evolution of the world of gaming is rapidly advancing through out the century. Along with the advancement of the gaming industry comes a different approach of communication within the gaming community. For instance while working your regularContinue reading “Hey, whats up?”