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Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker Article "UM PATHETIC" 2010 evaluated the issue that is brewing over the Health Care Reform. Hertzberg used many anecdotes to prove what he meant when he was reflecting on the war of Health care right now. He quoted JFK view on the issue before he died and that JFK also have the same view Barrack Obama held, Many people condemned Obama and what he believed in which is providing universal Health care which the statistics backed up that it will put the economy in serious Jeopardy. Hertberg claim that it is pathetic seems to be his purpose and his audience seems to be middle age adults with questions about Health Care.

Application Question: Do you Support the Current Health Care Bill? Why or Why not.

Outliers Chunk #3

In Malcolm Gladwell's final one hundred pages in outliers he analyze the effect of cultural legacy on an individual success. Malcolm Gladwell concluded that a pilot's success is based on what country he is from. For example a pilot from a high power-power distance culture will have significantly less success than a pilot who come from a low power distance country because the pilots from a high power distance country see some people as superior than themselves and it is terrible to have that in the cockpit because if something bad was to happen it is better to have someone that sees everyone as equals than to have someone who sees the "captain" as his master. Gladwell gave us a brief outline on the reasons why planes crash. A minor technical malfunction;bad weather;and a tired pilot all at the same time contributes to the crash of an airplane. Malcolm Gladwell continued by giving his audience the reason why Asians are good at math. He first explained that working on rice fields takes a lot of hardwork and many asians do not mind the extra hours needed to study. Gladwell went on to explain that since chinese number system is easier than America's number system and for this reason chinese kids learn how to count faster and because math is easier to them they tend work harder and do their homework and because their number system is easier they get a head start in learning math. Gladwell explained chinese thinking by revealing some quotes held by chinese citizens. For example "no food without blood and tears" and also "No one can rise before dawn three hundred and sixty days a year fails to make his family rich". Gladwell tells his audience that asians excel at math because they are willing to work hard just like their ancestors who work in the rice paddies. To conclude his book Gladwell shares with his audience the school called KIPP (which adopted chinese way of thinking) the school works its kids from 7:25 a.m to 5:00 pm. Gladwell claim that this is a bargain because 80% of KIPP's students attend college. The prologue of Malcolm Gladwell's book highlights his mom's success story like every other success story mentioned in this book, the individual receives some kind of unusual opportinity and he or she seizes it. The audience and tone was constant throughout the book. The audience might be mid-age adults and the tone was simply explanatory.
Classification question: Where does America rank in the PDI?

Application Question: Why does the color of the skin matter to some people?

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Rupert Murdoch 2009 Opinion Piece in Time Magazine, Journalism and freedom argues that some people might think that the future of the News paper is at Risk but he beliefs the opposite. Murdoch beliefs that many editors do not want to fight the power of technology. Murdoch later named the reasons why News business on newspapers will prosper, Murdoch suggests that companies can charge for information on the internet and he argues that people will actually pay for it depending on what information was given to them. Murdoch is a CEO of a News Corp which explains his views. This article was written before the Federal Trade Commission's workshop on journalism and the Internet. Obviously his audiences are Journalists , editors or other political figures. Murdoch uses a more conservative tone to reflect his opinions to his audiences.


Application Question? Is the increasing development of technology a Good or a bad thing?