https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang Chapter Five: The Three Lessons of Joe Flom en-us 2019-04-08 16:15:19 UTC 2019-04-22 14:59:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pizza.png sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/349602080 Throughout the entire book, many cases of luck are shown to give others better starts towards success. The outlier(s) in each situation of the book seem to be given an opportunity that helps the succeed past other individuals who were not given those opportunities or did not work hard enough with the given opportunities. Even in some cases it is the time and place a person is that determines their success. ]]> 2019-04-08 16:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/349602080 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/349604681 Joe Flom is a outstanding lawyer whose position changed his life. Born from Jewish immigrants during the Great Depression, Joe Flom was able to prosper when he became fully grown because the economy was booming and his social status of being a Jew was not as hindering as much. Also, Flom was born with Demographic Luck with good schooling and one of the most economically vibrant cities and Flom was in the generation born following in the Great Depression with a markedly smaller population and less competition. Throughout his whole life, he was given small advantages which accumulated over time to make him successful and an outlier. ]]> 2019-04-08 16:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/349604681 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350423795 From reading the book, Malcolm Gladwell, the author shows many people receiving little advantages and disadvantages. These advantages or disadvantages was not done by their own doing, but they were born into. Circumstances like social status, time period of birth, and home life, much like Joe Flom whom was born into a advantageous time period, which molded his future success. ]]> 2019-04-10 16:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350423795 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350450124 Move of Borrowing: Gladwell uses studies from H.Scott Gordon to intertwine with Gladwell"s ideas that other factors that contribute to a person's success can be contributed to events out of their control. As data from H. Scott Gordon reveals, Flom being born in the great depression caused an advantage unknown to him. (134-135 Flom being born in the great depression allowed him to get him into places without clear logical reasoning. This is due to sharp decrease in birth rates during the era. This allowed for less students to be in school during his generation causing him to have an ample amount of teachers and resources to his disposal. Along with less students came less competition, which allowed schools to accept more students with open arms. This is the luck given to him especially when he applied to Harvard Law School.

Move of Borrowing: [Background detail from Flom]  Gladwell includes these details about Flom to emphasize the luck that Flom was fortunate of having. Further in the book Gladwell said, "he happened to come along at a time in America when if you were willing to work hard, you could take responsibility for yourself." (136-137)

Move of Illustrating & Borrowing: In order to further Malcolm Gladwell's points of Joe Flom's Demographic Luck, he quoted Ted Friedman, one of the top litigators in New York in the 1970s and 1980s, whom was also a poor child of Jewish immigrants by stating, "I had a couple of hundred dollars in my pocket from the summer. I was working at Catskills to make enough money to pay the four-hundred-fifty-dollar tuition, and I had some left over." (136)]]> 2019-04-10 16:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350450124 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350452712 Claim of Cause and Effect: "In New York City, the early 1930s cohort was so small that class sizes were at leas half of what they had been twenty-five years earlier. the schools were new, built for the big generation that had come before, and the teachers had what in the Depression was considered a high-status job." (135) The teachers and schools that were built for a much larger population, were used for Joe Flom's generation; as a result, Flom and his generation were given advantages in education that a larger population would have not received.

Claim of Value: "In junior high school, Flom took the entrance exam for the elite Townsend Harris public high school on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, a school that in just forty years of existence produced three Nobel Prize winners, six Pulitzer Prize winners, and one Supreme Court Justice, not  to mention George Gershwin and Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine. He made it." (117) The junior high school in which Flom attended had many geniuses pass through their program, making the school a highly qualified institution.

Claim of Definition: Malcolm Gladwell told the story of Joe Flom's parents of Jewish immigrants in the garment factory, in which they began a business and a personality of working hard in their children, and gave his own definition of hard work in the world today and back then by stating, "Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning." (150)]]> 2019-04-10 16:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350452712 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350452762 Appeal of Pathos: During the novel, Gladwell delivers the reader a multitude of different appeals throughout the story to show different contrast of backgrounds and to provide multiple prospective of different outlier. Gladwell introduces the character's name, Joe Flom, who Gladwell uses for an appeal of pathos. The author states, "he was a poor child of government workers; that he was Jewish at a time when Jews were heavily discriminated against" (120). The background of the character indicates that not all conditions of a outlier is not always due to finical or social statue background, but simply the placement and time of his birth.

Appeal of Logos: Gladwell also used an appeal of logos and statistics in giving a chart on the total births and births per 1000 from 1910 to 1950, to give evidence to back up his argument of Joe Flom's demographic luck statistically on page 134]]> 2019-04-10 16:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350452762 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350452921 Malcolm Gladwell in his book gave many specific birth dates that would make you the perfect hockey player or the perfect business tycoon or even a software tycoon. In order to continue on this theory of perfect birth dates, Gladwell found "a perfect birth date for a New York Jewish lawyer as well. It's 1930, because that would give the lawyer the benefit of a blessedly small generation. It would also make [he/she] forty years of age in 1970, when the revolution in the legal world first began, which translates business..." (156)]]> 2019-04-10 16:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/350452921 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/351540827 2019-04-15 02:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/351540827 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/351540939 2019-04-15 02:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/351540939 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/351540992 Far Left]]> 2019-04-15 02:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/351540992 sstephenson81 https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/351541229 2019-04-15 02:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sstephenson81/APLang/wish/351541229