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Small Change-Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

About Malcolm Gladwell

  • Born on September 3rd 1963 in London, England.

  • Moved to Canada at a young age and later earned a bachelors degree in history.

  • Currently is a staff writer for The New Yorker

Malcolm Gladwell

Summary

  • Malcolm starts his essay with an arbitrary of the Greensboro Sit-In
  • He uses the Greensboro Sit-In to explain how activism only occurs in real life and not through social media
  • He says in order for activism to be real there needs to be a hierarchy, strong ties, discipline, and strategy.
  • Gladwell claims that none of those things are possible through social media, but all of them are shown in real-life.

(Logos)

  • Logos is the use of reasoning and logic in a persuasive argument.
  • "At four thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the Woolworth's in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • Mr. Gladwell uses logos to validate his argument.

Rhetorical Device #1

Allusion

Rhetorical Device #2

is an implied or indirect reference to something

Gladwell alludes to

  • the Greensboro Sit-In
  • the Moldova elections (2009)
  • terrorism in Iran (al qaeda)
  • the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
  • the Red Brigades Italian terrorist group

“this pattern shows up again and again. One study of the Red Brigades, the Italian terrorist group… found that seventy percent of recruits had at least one good friend already in the organization” (Gladwell 60)

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