https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem Title of the book, author en-us 2016-09-19 17:25:43 UTC 2026-01-09 11:30:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/80961422/f3ce7749a9d5e7071c220444b031fa3993493cf0/926da18fbe111c4acc55d6aeb6b6e75d.jpg jhatem956 https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838569 Here is where you will tell me what pages you will read for each week. I will give you class time Monday to create your site and map out a reading schedule for yourself based on the dates below. 

DUE DATES:  
9/23 (read at least 30 pages for this first week - schedule the rest for the remaining weeks)
9/30 32
10/7 34
10/14 37
10/21 39
10/28 296]]> 2016-09-19 17:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838569 jhatem956 https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838570 September 23, 2016]]> 2016-09-19 17:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838570 jhatem956 https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838571 Esthetic(aesthetic)-relating to the philosophy of the beautiful and ugly.
Adjective
The room was very esthetically pleasing.
"Snap judgements and rapid cognition take place behind a locked door"(51)
Cognition-acquiring knowledge through thought, experience, and the senses
The mans cognition was very limited, he was stupid.
" Most of us...associate leadership ability with imposing physical stature"(88).
imposing-grand and impressive in appearance
Gatsby's presence on his parties was very imposing.
" You'd quickly find out that they aren't all the sort of zany, impulsive, free spirited comedians that you might imagine them to be"(113).
zany-amusingly unconventional
The zany character was so odd that it was funny.
"The algorithm guessed right more than 95 percent of the time"(136)
algorithm-set of rules to be followed in calculations
Algorithms are very important in statistics.
"One of those shiny, cavernous food emporia that populate the American suburbs"(163)
emporia-large retail store selling many goods
Wegmans was hyped up to be an emporia, and it is.
"Metropolitan Museum of Art"(184)
Metropolitan-denoting a metropolis
New york is a metropolitan city.
" His nose wrinkled, as he flexed his levator labii superioris alaeque nasi."(211)
levator labii supperioris alaeque nasi- lifter of upper nose and ala of nose
He shifted his levator labii superioris alaeque nasi up.
"With even a half an hour of practice, he says, people can become adept at picking up up micro-expressions"(239).
Adept-very skilled at something
He was very adept when it came to soccer.
" But they overwhelmingly and punitively."(275)
Punitively-concerned with
It forms the base for all punitive expeditions to the Tochi Valley and Waziri frontier.



]]> 2016-09-19 17:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838571 jhatem956 https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838573 This quote explains the purpose of the book. Although it may be addressing how people work, it is not trying to develop a macro theory of how the world works, but instead is looking within the individual to find how one person acts in different circumstances.
"' You know, girls are really smart. They know in the first minute, Do I like this guy, can I take him home..., or is he just a wham-bam kind of jerk"' When it comes to thin-slicing potential dates, pretty much everyone is smart.(63)

This quote is an interesting way to frame the small decisions that people make into a relatable event instead of talking about it conceptually. By using things such as speed dating,  Gladwell expresses his ideas in a way that is more understandable to the average person

"Allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of the agreement in improv. It enables rapid cognition"(119).

This concept is the titular one in the novel. In essence, when a person does not need to put into words what they are doing, their thinking is better and more free. To be more specific, the left hemisphere deals with words and the right hemisphere deals with images. When their needs to be a transfer between these two hemispheres, both of the memories suffer. When this happens,  both the memories and ideas of the person suffers. This means that having to explain an idea which is more visual makes the idea worse, so it may be better to not have people explain their ideas until they are fully formed.

"It was a disaster. Coke drinkers rose up in outrage against New Coke. There were protests around the country...The story of New coke, in other words, is a really good illustration of how complicated it is to find out what people really think"(158)

This shows the differences between what people say and what people do. Even though in blind taste tests, New Coke preformed much better against Pepsi, from 14 percentage points worse with classic Coke to 6-8 points better, people still did not want New Coke. It did not matter that more people liked the New Coke when compared to Pepsi and the classic Coke because people were committed to the taste of Coke, even if they liked it less. Although Pepsi did better than Classic Coke in blind taste tests, it also did  not turn this into profit because people do not know what they want.

"But with three glasses, we have to be able to describe and hold the taste of the first and then the second cola in our memory, and somehow, however briefly, convert a fleeting sensory sensation into something permanent-and to do that requires knowledge and understanding of the vocabulary of taste."(186)

This quote describes the difficulties that people have when asked to, out of three glasses of cola, find the odd man out. When there are only two glasses, most regular cola drinkers can do it with ease, but only one-third of people got the three glass test, called the triangle test, correct. Even though it may sound simple to rule one out as different, it is impossible to do if a person can not keep in his mind the tastes of the first two before drinking the third. To do this requires ways to commit to memory the taste of the first two. The best way to do this is by using words, which many people do not know how to use when talking about taste. There is a separation between what people think they know, colas and their tastes, and what they actually can do, distinguish two glasses of cola from each other.
"And as these new rules were put in place around the country, an extraordinary thing happened: orchestras began to hire women."(250)
This quote is the final statement after discussing the bias within classical music. Throughout the rest of the discussion, it talked about new ways to make sure that a bias would not influence the judge's opinion on the player, including screens so that the judges could not see the gender and race of those auditioning.This is because for a long time people thought that white males were better at playing classical music when compared to other races or genders. It shows that what could be accepted as common knowledge may be wrong and should be investigated .]]> 2016-09-19 17:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838573 jhatem956 https://padlet.com/jhatem956/Hatem/wish/124838574 My name is Jonathan Harry Hatem. I am 16 and a Junior at Algonquin Regional High School. I have two older brothers. Mark is in his junior year at Boston college and Sam is in his senior year at Worcester Academy. My parents are named Dave and Michele. I am on the varsity soccer team, and have been since Sophomore year. I am also on the ski team.

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