Hello everyone, my name is Brad. I am a high school student, and in the 10th grade. The reason that I am creating a blog, is for my English II. We were told that we should create this, and share our opinion and our experiences with a new book that we are reading. The easiest way for this goal to be achieved, is by creating this blog.
So lets start discussing the book that I'm reading. It is called Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. So far, I have read about 30 pages, and I was profoundly surprised, that i liked the book so much. Basically the Intro to the Book talks about a small town in Pennsylvania called Roseto. Most of the people from this town were from Italy, and stayed together all the way to the new world. Gladwell talks about how in this small town there is no one dying of heart disease. In 1950 there were lots of people dying from this disease. Doctors tried to find out why they did have heart disease. He said they eat poorly, and were over weight, and hardly exercised but they still didn't have any trace of this disease. Doctors tried to prove that being a close knit community that talked to each other a lot might be a reason for preventing heart disease. He says that maybe the way we think of being healthy, by eating right, and exercising, but there might be something else to it as well. He uses this to tie into the topic of the book Success
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