The Tipping Point In Review

The Tipping Point talks a lot about social issues and how and what can be done to make things tip to start an epidemic. In terms of an epidemic, I see it as anything that can be wide spread. So when talking about socila justices in terms of epidemics I believe that it would be nice to be able to start an epidemic to put a stop to the increase of teenage preganacy in the United States. It seems almost as if the teenage pregnancy rates rising is an epidemic of itself. There are televison shows, movies, books, magazines that discuss this issue, but doesn't adress how to go about solving the issue. The way in which I can tip this social epidemic to put it in reverse is educate. Informing people about it, what can be done so that it can be prevented, and so forthe.

The most influential chapter in the book for me by far was the Power of Context chapter, part one. This will be a chapter of a book that I will never forget. I feel as though ten to twenty years from now if I reflect back on all the books I have read throughout my college career and someone were to ask me to name a chapter it would be the Power of Context part one in Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point. I will not forget the mans name, Bernie Goetz, in who we were introduced to in this chapter, that gunned down four black teenage boys. All for the simple fact that he felt threatened. Althoug I think he felt far more than threatened, more like fed up with the black teenage males that help make up the inner city youth, wanted to do something about it, take matters into his own hands. I won't forget how people saw this man as a hero, how he got away with murder literally, our class discussion on it, and the youtube interview we watched as well as the comments left underneath. It was my favorite chapter because its by far most memorable, it fit in with what I wanted to know about epidemics, the enviornment in which we live in can affect us, and vise versa.

One idea that I can take with me is informing others. Informing others about impotant information that we have to share. Do not keep it to yourself because you never know in which ways it can help.