Blog post 2: Synthesis

Devin Gutierrez

Claim: I don’t think certain people have advantages when it comes to doing well in competitive sports, or school stuff, or activities. I don’t think this because no matter who you are where you come from I think with hard work and effort (to get help in whatever you need help) a person can succeed at anything they put their mind to. In don’t think its based off what month you were born in or how rich your family is, everybody has to put in some work otherwise (I don’t think a person feels accomplished, I know I wouldn’t) they aren’t hard workers like the rest of their community or environment.

 I don’t think he thinks people have certain advantages, and if he does then I think he thinks they don’t deserve them. I agree with him because people work to get wealthy in anything and he is saying that no matter who your parents are or if you are wealthy because of them you still have to work. If he does think this then those specific advantages would be what month you were born in and how physically more mature than a person who was born a few months after them. This chapter had me thinking about my daily question but didn’t makes me change my mind on weather or not people have certain advantages. Some of the sources he used were the months in which a hockey player was born and that makes them more physically mature, and what culture you were born in makes you how smart you are. If I were to say that I agreed with this phenomenon then yes, I would agree that he made some valid points, but I’m not so I think he is saying that this phenomenon is untrue and it all depends on how much work you are willing to put into your goal. Then I am agreeing because that’s how I think our society should work. 

Daily Question 1

Daily Question 1                   Elijah Garcia

Some people so have advantages when it comes to sports or school. In sports they could have been playing longer so they are better or they were just born that way. In school people have a good memory and do better on tests. They may also have good study habits so they do well in school.

          I can relate my daily question to the Matthew Effect by saying when they were born because people born earlier will have a better advantage. They will be recruited and the younger ones will not and they have experience. Related to my daily question older people have a better advantage to learn than younger people.  

Blog post 2: Synthesis

“The Matthew Effect” Synthesis

One competitive and goal orientated thing I have done in is playing  soccer.  Some people have advantages over others because they are more experienced, and bigger than other kids.  Other people have lots of practice with the game.  But, I believe that some advantages can be gained through hard work and dedication.
After reading “The Matthew Effect,” My response has only gotten stronger.  In this part, part one, the book talks about how older kids get more opportunities than younger ones.  In schools, the older kids are picked for advanced classes because the teacher thinks they are ahead of the class.  In reality, the older kids brains have had more life experiences than the younger kids.  This is just like my example because the more experienced you have of a subject, the better you are at the subject.  So if you play guitar everyday for 5 years and someone else players every other day for 3 years, you will have more experience and will have more opportunities.
The author of this book, Gladwell, thinks that people will have advantages in life that get them farther in their career.  This advantage these people have is simply being older and more experienced at doing something.  I would have to agree with Gladwell because sports generally pick the more experienced kids over the others. Gladwell used a list of Canadian hockey players and test scores.  These sources are very convincing because the the research about test scores was from economist research and the list of Canadian Hockey players was from a hockey game in Canada.  This brings my synthesis to a close.

Blog Post 2: Synthesis

Brittany Fanning

4/19/13

Period 4B

As a goal for my team and I we strive to get 1^st place at every competition. In the world of dance, coaches/judges have their favorites. This result in other teams winning because they are “friends” and have a major advantage. Gladwell strongly believes that certain people have advantages over others. He believes that children that are older than average in sports or school have a better chance of being smarter or higher ranked in sports. I 100% agree with him because I feel that children that are older tend to be smarter and more “grown up” which tends to have a great effect. It made me realize that maybe it’s not that teams have advantages over one another but that they just have more sophisticated members.

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                                                             Blog Post 2: Synthesis

                   When I thought of advantages people have I automatically thought of physical advantages. I wrote in my Daily question, "Some people have more physical advantages that help people be faster, like being skinny and have long legs, being taller, which could potentially help them for some sport like basketball, or having broad shoulder which can help with swimming. Which gives them more advantages physically for sports." My Daily question answer was different from what I read in, "The Mathew Effect," because I thought he would be talking about physical features that help make you better in hockey. When he started talking about birthdays and how the cut off date is January 1st it kind off had to do with physical features. I say that because Gladwell was talking about how they are more mature when the boys are older which makes them bigger and better hockey players.
                   Gladwells' opinion towards the Daily question would certain people do have advantages especially in hockey, if there birthdays are in January, February, or March which makes them more mature, physically wise, than the younger boys. I do not agree with Gladwell because I don't think a couple of months will do much to help you play better but then again the statistics show that most of the good hockey players are born in the course of those three months. This chapter did make me re-think about different advantages some people have over others. I only thought about the genes you have to be bigger, stronger, and faster and not about when you were born and how that can make you better at sports such as hockey
.                  Gladwell used statistics on the players birthdays and most were in January, February, and March which he then talked about they were really good hockey players. I think they were convincing sources because they were all from professional hockey teams which means they were good enough to be a professional hockey player in Canada. Also the statistics have all of there numbers and where the play. Therefore, I do think the statistics were reliable. 1

Blog Assignment 2
Keyanna


Daily question: Certain people have advantages when it comes to doing well competivialy and other goal oriented activities such as if you have long legs you are more likely to win or run faster, But if you were born competitive than that's an advantage to, all ways want to be the best.This relates to the Matthew Effect because in that chapter it talked about the competitiveness between others,Gladwell's opinion or the Daily Question is that everyone has a certain advantage when it comes to certain activities and Goal Oriented activities. Some of those advantages are if you are older you have advantages to being on team and as well learning faster.I do agree with Gladwell. This chapter didn't change cause me to rethink the Daily Question because I already knew that when it comes to certain people they do have certain advantages and competitiveness.Some of the sources and examples he used was the ages of people and the level of education that each age was capable of. The sources were convening because i was able to prove them.

Warm up 0ut1iers

I am goal oriented in many areas of my life. I set goals in my athletics, to be the best of the game, to be the best competitor I can be is important to me. I set goals in my relationships with people, God, and myself. I think if you are goal oriented you have an advantage. You are more competitive, determined, and motivated than your competition. Some people are born with goals, some people have to find them but in the end we all reached somewhere by making goals.

Gladwells opinion of the daily question is that he believes that if you are talented and goal oriented than you can go anywhere. So people do have advantages, the people that are older are typically smarter or more talented. They have experience under their belt.

       A Goal Is What You Do!

   One main goal I started to achieve was always earning your full effort of what you do in life.  It's simple, let's say you have a project in science, try to amaze them and let them know who you are, and what is it like to be creative.  At 6th grade science, I wanted to try something new, something that would make the class love to see and hear, not just with some stupid, crummy, poster-board or  useless junk to make a model, I want them to know more about TORNADOES!  Yes I said it, tornadoes, I think they are the most mysterious phenomenon on Earth.  So, I founded out that in order to create a tornado, use a tornado in a box!  Not a cardboard box, but a plexi glass box.  Week after week, I spend my time creating facts and PowerPoint with this project.  My parents helped me put the box together.  We tested it first with a heating plate, a small pot of water, and putted the box,outside of the heating plate.  Success!!  I had the crowd so amazed over and over again! It was one best achieving goals in my life.  In Outliers, it's about whether people success or not in life, were things turn bad into worst, then to the greatest goals in their lives.  Then we look at, "The Matthew Affect."   Malcolm Gladwell, the author, says about kids playing hockey in The Canada League had to be in certain birth months and age in order to join.  But people say it's not fair because of their birth months being a certain amount.  I think it's wrong, because who cares even if it effects the schedule of the hockey league?  It's not like they have a certain time to be ready or not, it's what children want to become in the future.  There is no such thing as "certain amount of time in order reach your goal" thing!           
                              
                                                                                   

Blog post 2: Synthesis

People have advantages for everything, but especially activities. When it comes to activities, there’s endless advantages that people could have. For example, someone could have longer legs for running faster. Or someone could be more experienced than you. Anything could make an advantage for something.

In the chapter, “The Matthew Effect.” There was an advantage. The author explained about a hockey team and how most of the people on the team had birthdays in January, February, and March. The advantage about this is that the people with a birthday at the beginning of the year get more experience since they’ve been on earth a while longer. The author also explained how one tree hasn’t been intruded or destroyed while it’s growing. The tree also had the advantage of having better soil, more sunlight, and avoids being chopped down or ruined. The author was explaining that the tree was like a person with an advantage. Agreeing with the author, some people do have advantage weather it was that they were born earlier or with a feature that helps them. These were convincing sources since that people really do have advantages like the examples the author explained.

Agreeing With Gladwell

               I do think people have advantages in competitive situations and other self-goal oriented activities. Some people have money to hire people to help them and get down the specific formats, other people can figure it out on their own, and others just have to learn on their own. Some might succeed and some might not. Gladwell’s opinion on the daily question is the specific age of the person. The individual may have an advantage by being born in the beginning of the year and others have a disadvantage because they were born late in the year. They have an advantage of being born early because they have started earlier with learning the sport. Gladwell says, “A twelve- month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity.” (Gladwell 24). I agree with Gladwell because age does have a lot to do with physical maturity. Some people mature fast and others don’t. It has to do with age. Also, the specific month of when they were born helps with them determining what competitive level they are in because of the specific times they started training and learning the formats of the sport and their physical capability of playing the sport. This chapter made me re-think my answer to the daily question because it gave me a new perspective to think form. Now I have my thoughts and logical thoughts. Some examples he used were the charts in the book saying the number, name, position, left or right handed, height, birthdate, and home town of the player. They were convincing sources by showing that the players are born more in January through March then in April through December.

Advantages

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                If you have advantages over some things it can be an advantage and then it can also be disadvantage. Some people have a Hispanic inheritance and that some of them able to speak Spanish more fluently and know a little from their parents. Some people never spoken Spanish in their life so they struggle to do accents and that gives the Hispanic people more of an advantage over the others. If it is a competitive advantage such as being taller than others giving you a more of a speed advantage than the rest of the people. I do not agree with him because I think that age doesn’t matter to a certain point if you are 20 years old and you practice basketball your whole life and if you a 40 year old man and you practiced your whole life that would be an advantage but overall if you both practice the same but are different aged then age wouldn’t matter. The “Mathew effect” didn’t really make me rethink my opinion but it did give me some ideas on what advantages you would gain from being older. He makes an example of picking a 9 or 10 year old and when he picks them they practice twice as much, they play more games, and they get better teammates, making them a better player when they grow up.

Advantages of having Advantages

                                 Daily Question #1                

By: Colin LaPlante

Yes, some people have advantages. For example, some people are born good at school, and therefore get better grades in school. Some people have loads of money and can bribe people to win at things or can use money to become famous. Another example, In NFL scouts look at African American males more than they do Caucasians. People are born very fast, and some people are born very big. I do think people are born with advantages, because for me I can jump really far and that is why in Track I am going to be doing the Long Jump. In the world people have advantages, and certain races get better opportunities. Some people also are born with big hands, and this can help them in baseball because it is easier to throw and catch the ball.

Glad well made me think differently about people’s advantages. He used statistics from sport teams, and how they are all around the same age. Many of the players were also born in the months of January, February, and March. The sources were very convincing and it added to my knowledge of advantages. They were convincing because it made me see that ability is not all and age can make a huge difference, and if you are very old for your age group you are more likely to get a better career.

Advantages

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Daily Question 1

Baseball you constantly have to get bigger and better and improve. If you don’t improve, you will not play because the people who do improve will eventually improve so much that they are better then you. So you need to set a goal for yourself to get better and bigger. There are sometimes unfair advantages because if you were born with small hands, you won’t be able to throw the ball very well but if you have big hands you are able to throw the ball a lot better then somebody with smaller hands. Another unfair advantage is if somebody is just naturally bigger then you they can’t hit the ball as far as somebody smaller. Another thing is that more professional baseball players were born in August than any other time. Gladwell would agree with me because he has also seen that statistics. He also thinks that there are several unfair advantages to sports. He agrees that there are just some things in sports that you have no control over such as size, hand size, and birth date.

daily question

Yes people do tend to be different when they have a specific goal they want to achieve because  they are motivated to succeed their goal. This sometimes gives people advantages. In the Maxwell affect, gladwells opinion seems like he thinks that people born in certain months are the best. He finds this out when hes referring to hockey. For example he claims that people born in January have a 40% better chance of going to the big leagues.  Yes i do agree with him, because in the chart it shows how most of the star players were born in January.

Tigers are Tiggers, Tiggers are Tigers, but not all Tiggers are Tigers

                                                                      

              Uniqueness, we all have it. Most in different ways, but it's still there. now my uniqueness is very different from anybody else because I try to be creative, but I'm horrible at it most times, like this prompt, I can't think of anything for it. A few things about myself is that I view myself as crazy. I get this from my mother and my father, my mother is not the good kind of crazy, but my dad is. On a special occasion i can actually get my parents scared about how crazy I am. I mostly only display this craziness at home, but why not at school? I'll tell you why! I'ts because  there are just so many students that nobody would even notice it. I hope to be in too many clubs this year while I still have my motivation for school as a freshman. Hopefully I will still have my motivation the next four years. If you can't already tell (from the title) I love tigers. I am a native to Colorado born and raised here, and love the long cold winters and don't like so much the short hot summers.