The+Tipping+Point

Type in the content of your page here. On this page we will be discussing the book "The Tipping Point". The more you contribute to the discussion, the more participation points you will receive.

Each person in the class will have a responsibility. Your responsibility will change with each chapter of the book. All members of the class will be put into groups of 4. This is part of your Participation/Teamwork grade.

Here is a list of the responsibilities:

Severity #17 -- The state or quality of being severe. Because of this word, I can't understand the sentence meaning. Disproportionality #19 -- The state of being out of proportion It is the longest word I never seen. Extraordinary #22 -- Beyond what is ordinary or usual Because of this word, I can't understand the sentence meaning. Infant #23 -- Baby Because of this word, I can't understand the sentence meaning. Contagious #25 -- Transmissible by direct or indirect contact. Because of this word, I can't understand the sentence meaning.
 * __Word Finder__**
 * Group 1 (Dai, Wei)**

Word Page # Why did you pick it? Meaning 2. If violence or fighting erupts, it suddenly begins or gets worse in an unexpected, violnet way **Demoliton Pg. 17** - Destroying
 * Group 2 (Kim, Young Joon)**
 * Epidemic Pg. 15** - If there is an epidemic of a particular disease somewhere, it affects a very large number of people there and spreads quickly to other areas.
 * Because this word is included in the title of chapter 1.
 * Raging Pg.16** - Raging is used to describe things, especially bad things, that are very intense.
 * The reason why I select this word because this word relates with the first word which is epidemic.
 * Erupt Pg. 16** - 1. When a volcano erupts, it throws aout a lot of hot, melted rock called lava, as well as ash and steam.
 * This word is quite new to me. Therefore I selected this.
 * I picked it because I used other words instead of demolition.
 * Tip Pg.18** - It means end of sth, apex and zenith.
 * In my opinion, this word is the most important word in this book. Also, the whole chapter is about process to reach the tipping point.
 * Contagious Pg. 24 -** A diseas that is contagious can be caught by touching people or things that are infected with it.
 * I picked this word because this word also relates with epidemic.

Your responsibility is to pick parts of the chapter that you want to share with the others in your group. When you find this part in the chapter, type it here. Page 15 paragraph 2 In the 3rd line of the paragraph it says that the cause of syphilis is crack cocaine but in the next two pages it turns out that it’s just an assumption of might could cause syphilis. Page 21 paragraph 1 It mentions that a French-Canadian flight attendant who claims to have had over 2,500 sexual partners and that he is now in jail for infecting over 40 of them with HIV. Page 26 paragraph 1
 * __Passage Picker__**
 * Group 1 (Abdulghani, Rashad Essam)**

It is interesting that an epidemic can rapidly decrees during the winter time as some studies has showen in the book that people tend to go out less in the wenter to bars, clubs,….etc, and prefer to stay at home.


 * Group 2 (Huang, Sisi)**

Page# Paragraph# Why did you like it? [Page 19 Paragraph 1~2] The 80/20 Principle well explains the first factors of the epidemic--The Law of the Few

[Page 24 Paragragh 1~3] The first paragragh provides an example that the virus changes circularly. I am interested in it.

The second and the third paragraph emphasize the importance of stickiness in tipping.Also,a typical instance is followed.

[Page 28 Paragraph 1] The experiment indicates the fact that responsibility for acting is diffused when people are in a group.Obviously, it offers a possible explaination for the tragic incident happened in New York.

[Page 29 Paragraph 2] This is the conclusion of this chapter that the three rules of the tipping point are given clearly. //**Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking**// //**Outliers**////Outliers// //**1.** **Similar events:**// After reading through chapter one of The Tipping Point, I strongly have the fresh look at all circumstances happened in my range of circle. There would be plentiful number of things happen in my daily life. A good similar event will be girls' crazy gossip in my high school. There was a girl in my class, just like every class has a girl who appeals perfect and study extremely outstanding. Let's call this girl: miss P(perfect).Some do not talk to P or even say Hello to her, the reason is obviously clear. These girl spread some affairs and scandals about P, some of them which are not true. First, we girls believed these stupid affairs, and then the whole class have the thought that miss P is not as perfect as she appeals, instead, she has dark secrets. At the very beginning, miss P tolerated all girls and kept acting like a queen. But as the story goes on, she realized her unbelievable negative situation, and she fought against others and try to set up good status again. But this time, things were out of her control, and she felt so upset that she played truant without telling teachers and her parents. For a while, teachers and parents found her and knew the whole circumstance. Believe it or not, one of these girls who spread the gossip and is fond of discussing something in secret eventually, gained a dramatic influence without realizing. She herself decided to transfer to another school, which is located in her hometown, a small town, cannot compare to our school. But we all know she has no choice, and have to get out of the school, otherwise she would have no friends and be despised by all class. So we can see how seemingly small gestures can have fantastically large and rapid outcome And I figured out that we human being are profoundly social beings influenced by and influencing others, no matter how much technology we introduce into our lives. Even minor alterations can produce major consequences for individuals, organizations and communities I think everything happens in our routin lives have this connection with //The Tipping Point//. Another similar could be //Chicken soup for the soul.// There are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes. No matter how much they are stuggling for better lives or how desperate some are, they all have changes and the changes come from their attitude and details they do everyday. __**Discussion Director**__
 * 1) **Group 1****(Xie, Jiehao)**
 * Black Dealth Disease****SARS****bird flu****H1N1**
 * Black Death**//Yersinia pestis//
 * Group 2 (Zou, Ying)**
 * //2. Other books or stories://**
 * Group 1 ( Bai, Lirongzi)**

6) What questions do you have after reading?
1. What are the three rules of epidemics in your own words? 2. Is there someone can describe the relationship between the epidemics problem and some status like poverty and lack of medical resources? 3. Do you have some idea to deal with that situation where some people made epidemics of disease tip? 4. Can someone compare the medical situation in the book with that in your country or that at the present time? 5. What attitude and hevaiours should we have to treat the AIDS patients in daily life. 6. What can you obtain or think of by reading the chapter 1? __**Summarizer**__ There are three main points that author points out in the book: The law of the few, the stickiness factor and the power of Context. For the"The law of the few", we discussed some examples from the book: 20% of people cause 80% of car accidents; an sexual active man cause HIV to some of his sex friends. How the cigarettes company made their products so popular? That is something with "The stickiness factor ". The company used special word to attract people to remember their cigarettes. The environment could change human behaviors. That is the "power of context". **
 * **Group 2 ( Li, Luosi)**
 * **Group 2 ( Li, Luosi)**
 * Group 1 (Ko, Ah-Ra)

Group #2 Summarizer: In the first chapter of The Tipping Point, the author tell us three rules of the Tipping Point-the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context-offer a way of making sense of eqidemics.
 * Group 2 (Bai, Xueyin**

And there are the answer of the six questions that we have. Q1.What are the three rules of epidemics in your own words?

Answer:three rules of the Tipping Point-the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context.

Q2.Is there someone can describe the relationship between the epidemics problem and some status like poverty and lack of medical resources?

A:The relationship between the epidemics problem and some status like poverty and lack of medical resources is that people in some poor countries or areas, they cannot afford to go to the hospital to have medical treatment, so when they have some infection diseases, they don't know, so they may infect those diseases to some other people in the unknown situations.

Q3.Do you have some idea to deal with that situation where some people made epidemics of disease tip?

A:People should realize the important of the protection of theirselves, the should pay attention to get away from some places that may get a epidemics disease. Also, people should do the exercise everyday so that they can have a good body to against with illness.

Q4.Can someone compare the medical situation in the book with that in your country or that at the present time? A:In most of country of modern society, most of people have had a insurance, so that they can get to hospital to get the medical treatment when they are sick.

Q5.What attitude and hevaiours should we have to treat the AIDS patients in daily life.

A:We should treat the people who have AIDS as a normal people, we cannot have some discrimination toward them, we should try our best to help them instead of avoid them.

Q6.What can you obtain or think of by reading the last part(Part 4) of chapter 1?

A: We can get to know teenage smoking, for example. or the phenomenon of word of mouth or crime, or the rise of a bestseller from the three rules that the arcitle gives us, that dose make sense when we have the problems about this, and that is what the part 4 wants to tell us.


 * __Literary Luminary__**
 * Group 1 (She, Wu Suk)**
 * p.g. - 15, IN Baltimore, from 1995 to 1996, the number of children who born with disease increased 500% and it caused by crack cocaine. It is quite shocked that number of children who have disease increased 500%.
 * p.g 20~21 - "Who were those 16 people?.... at least 30 of them with HIV" and "In the same two-year......... epidemics of disease tip." It tells about spreading of epidemic, such as, HIV and AIDS. I got surprised that because of only two guys almost 70 of girls got infected by HIV/AIDS.
 * p.g. 24 - "The HIV epidemic tipped in the early 1980s, in shirt, not just because of the enormous changes in sexual behavior in the gay communities that made it possible for the virus to spread rapidly." I do not against to gay people but it is definitely true that they should have safe sex to against spread of HIV/AIDS.
 * p.g. 26 - last paragraph - I cannot believed none of 38 neighborhoods called the police. We need to put more focus on our neighborhoods.
 * p.g. 28 - last paragraph - It is quite interesting experiment that people's behavior is changing or different depending on the environment.

1. In the mid-1990s the city of Baltimore was attacked by an epidemic of syphilis. The reason i picked this sentence is that this sentence contains the one of the three rules of Epidemics. page-15, first sentence 2.Economists often talk about the 80/20 principle which is the idea that in an situation roughly 80 percent of the "work" will be done by 20 percent of the participants. page 19, sixth sentence, The reason i picked this sentence is that this is the main idea for the first law. 3. The idea of the importance of stickiness in tipping has enormous implications for the way we regard social epidemics as well. page 24, This sentence emphasize about the stickiness factor. 4. Epidemics, Zenilman's map demonstrates are strongly influenced by their situation by the circumstances and conditions and particulars of the environments in which they operate. pg 26, This sentence is the main idea of the third law. 5. The three wules of the Tipping-Point the law of the few, the stickness factor, the power of context. The last chapter, Contains all of the reasons of tipping point. ** __**Illustrator**__ **
 * Group 2 (Lee, Jihyung)**
 * Group 1 (Xing, Jia)
 * Group 2 (Tu, Chieh Jen)**

= Were the action begins: Where the key events happened: Where the events ended: =
 * __Travel Tracer__**
 * Group 1(Chen, Po - Nien)**


 * Group 2 (Lee, Dasol and Alyousef, Hassan Qassim)**