DUE DATE: MAY 8th
For the next couple of weeks, we
will be reading through the book The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell.
As you read through the book, look
for examples that will help you build a thoughtful response to this
question: How might one or more of the ideas in the book The
Tipping Point apply to your chosen major or profession(or a deep
interest of yours)?
To give you a couple of examples, in
nursing there might be a new treatment protocol or a new drug that has
"tipped." In education, new theories of differentiated
instruction have emerged while theories of multiple intelligences have
"tipped" and now waned. If you are interested in soccer, goal line
technology seems on the verge of "tipping." In engineering, there are
probably technological issues related to fracking that could be related to
these themes.
For any of those, you would relate
the ideas from the book to the ideas from your major or interest.
WARNING: Avoid writing about social
media. Many bad essays have been written on cell phones, facebook, twitter,
etc. I know these are of interest and do dominate our lives, but don't take the
easy way out.
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