The Tipping Point & Your Local News Dateline-Deli

“The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” is the questioning of trends that occur among humans. Gladwell brings examples such as Hush Puppies, and soaring suicide rates in Micronesia, and the explanation as to why teenagers smoke. Because of these causes, the smoking rates have increased. In a way, Gladwell is trying to make a statement that smoking gives you more maturity because you have to be 18 in order to buy it. But I do agree with him because having an age limit to buying certain things does give younger children the sense that you are more mature and cooler because of the ability to buy things that they won’t be able to for a while. Smokers overestimate the harmful effects, which is why there are so many commercials and media trying to expose the negative effects of smoking. However, the effort to inform the public, especially the smokers, hasn’t made a big enough impact yet to stop people from smokers and expose the harmful and negative effects that smoking brings. Barbara Ehrenreich, writer of “Your Local New- Dateline Delhi” goes along with the previous article because she explains why she doesn’t like when other companies outsource to other countries. She is very stern about her opinion stating that she wishes that “the next time some managers get the idea of cost-saving through outsourcing they’d go for the CEO’s job.”