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More Isn't Always Better Part 2

                                  More isn’t Always Better Part Two           Chapter eight of David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell was different from the chapters. The main idea was too make us see again in another way that more isn’t always better by making going back to what was said in chapter two. There were two main stories. The first was about a young girl named Kimber, she came back from college to visit her family. Kimber was out to lunch with some friends, they were walking back to there car when two men came running up and tried to rob her. She resisted, and the man ended up shooting her. She was rushed to the hospital and died a few hours later. Her father Mike Reynolds swore on that day “I can’t save your life. But I’m going to do everything in my power to try to prevent this from happening to anybody else.” (Gladwell 234)        This is exactly what Mike Reynolds set out to do. He set up a meeting with people all around the neighborhood to come up with a plan

Is Power As Great As It Seems?

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                                                                       Is Power as Great as It Seems?             Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath chapter seven focuses on several story’s that all have similar themes. They all have someone in power who makes a choice whether it was what they thought was right or not ended up with some hard consequences. For example, in the story of Rosemary Lawlor, because of the conflict between the Protestants and Catholics the British wanted to help by trying to control the situation and only making things worse. The British end up turning on them in the end as Rosemary’s father had predicted. The main point that Gladwell wanted us to see was that whoever is in charge is who the people will follow they set they set the example. And when something goes wrong it is all on them, but I don’t know if I fully agree with this            I believe that we all make a choice to do the right thing or the wrong sure there might be s