DR. BRETT SCHMOLL
OFFICE: FACULTY TOWERS 201A
OFFICE HOURS: TUE AND THU 12-1
OFFICE PHONE: 661-654-6549
BASICS OF THE COURSE EACH WEEK
These are time sensitive. You do not receive credit if you write them after the deadline each week. Furthermore, if you are in the habit of writing everything on Saturday you will not receive full credit. Why? There would be no time for others to interact with your writing. Write early; write often! Right? Right!
First, there's a blog entry (about 250 words) which will have you respond to a hopefully thought-provoking question. Each week, you must do the blog entry with enough time left in the week to be able to enter into dialogue online with your classmates. Write, reply, write more, reply more, and then write and reply more.
Second, there's a reading. There’s no blog entry associated with this. Just read.
Third, there's a written response to the reading. Your reading and writing on the blog must be completed by the SATURDAY (by midnight) of the week in which the reading falls. This entry should be a long paragraph. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESPOND TO OTHER STUDENTS' PART THREE EACH WEEK.
I don’t even know how to start this paragraph. It has a lot of tipping points that makes me wonder about. Alan Wolfe makes a good job on examining Gladwell work and making some explanations about why he said fads are what keep us fascinated. I never thought of this, but after reading this assignment and reading Gladwell’s book I came to the conclusion that in fact we are fascinated by fads literally. We sometimes tend to follow something simply because someone has done it before us. Alan gives example of how everything spreads rapidly regardless of the populations, it also mentions how Gladwell addresses in his book. It allows us to see how human behavior can change dramatically for anything. For example, the Hush Puppies, health warnings, and crime are some of the issues Alan brings up here to analyze more, nor she tries to put it in a different concept. A tipping point had to occur in order for those issues to stop or something had happen that brought them back. Whatever the case might be fads are not fads at all, they are illusions created by the author. Alan also explains how people can be the connector of information and how the changes commination to be more asserted or not, it depends on the amount of people spreading the word or the way they do such thing. It all makes sense if you think about it.
I don’t even know how to start this paragraph. It has a lot of tipping points that makes me wonder about. Alan Wolfe makes a good job on examining Gladwell work and making some explanations about why he said fads are what keep us fascinated. I never thought of this, but after reading this assignment and reading Gladwell’s book I came to the conclusion that in fact we are fascinated by fads literally. We sometimes tend to follow something simply because someone has done it before us. Alan gives example of how everything spreads rapidly regardless of the populations, it also mentions how Gladwell addresses in his book. It allows us to see how human behavior can change dramatically for anything. For example, the Hush Puppies, health warnings, and crime are some of the issues Alan brings up here to analyze more, nor she tries to put it in a different concept. A tipping point had to occur in order for those issues to stop or something had happen that brought them back. Whatever the case might be fads are not fads at all, they are illusions created by the author. Alan also explains how people can be the connector of information and how the changes commination to be more asserted or not, it depends on the amount of people spreading the word or the way they do such thing. It all makes sense if you think about it.
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