The Tipping Point: A Review You may know about the ripple or butterfly effect, a phenomenon associated with the onset of rapid events that follow simultaneously after one another. A term coined by Everett Rogers in 1962, a similar sensation known as the “tipping point” is defined as “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, or the boiling point”. In his 2000 debut novel The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell explores how little things in our world can make a big difference, ranging from the outbreak of popularity and sales of Hush Puppies shoes to the spread of syphilis in 20th century Baltimore. According to Gladwell, there are three agents of change that lead to a tipping point — the law of the few, the stickiness factor, and the power of context. The law of the few explains how the few socially gifted persons in a society are able to be the catalyst to a social epidemic: these people include connectors, mavens, and salesmen. The stickiness factor describes how certain things stay wi...
“One of Us is Lying”: Recommendation or Denunciation? I n this blog post, I will be discussing “ One of Us is Lying ” by Karen M. McManus. “ One of Us is Lying ” is a high school murder mystery centered on the mysterious death of Simon (the outcast) in a detention room with four other students. These five other students include Bronwyn (a Yale Bound rule-abiding student), Addy (the beauty or homecoming queen), Nate (the criminal already on probation), and Cooper (the athlete/all star baseball pitcher). One of us is lying, takes readers through the student’s inner secrets and challenges the reader to figure out who’s lying before the end. I first read this book two years ago, and I was pretty disappointed. Prior to reading it, I read many reviews and book blogs (similar to our classes) hyping up the book as a huge, mind blowing, revolutionary murder mystery. However, predictable is the only thing I would call this book. To me, the culprit was pretty obvious from the beginnin...