Bryan

Bryan

Discussion leader Tuesday, may 2010. How do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers relate to each-other.

things to bring up - Abortion / and how it affected crime rate (by potentiality killing a lot of potential criminals.)

teachers and the cheating issue, the statistics and how it relates to the sumo wrestlers. -graphs charts, and applications.

Chapter 2

How does the progression of time and economics affect the structure of the Ku-Klux-Klan and how it was being handled? Does economics play a role in how the Ku-Klux-Klan is operated, or does it just keep it in operation (the grand dragon taking donations ect.)

This chapter also focused heavily on how the gathering of information can turn the tables on any particular group. In this case the example was the KK, after the live feeds of information of the group, applications as well as attendance decreased greatly. History is in an important part of gathering information, not only must someone know about what is going on recently, they must also know what has happened in the past to further increase their knowledge.

How can the manipulation of words, and telling people what they want to hear effect economy, how was it used in terms of a real estate agent – in relation to the KKK.

Chapter 3 - QUOTES

"It would take a callous person to publicly dispute their claims" - This is a show of Venkatesh and his personality, to present himself to the gang members as he did, and maybe it gave him just the edge he needed to stay alive.

"Journalists need experets as bad as experts need journalists" - This is showing the dependancy of 2 things on eachother, co-dominance. Alot of things run off eachother in this sort of way such s Economics and Histry. - also talk about how alot of the pages// nasically 90 -102 talk about how in this sort of buisness drug selling, if you want any real money you have to make your way to the top, everyone besides the boss gets little to no money and also have a high death rate. "it simply does not cost to much to commit a crime"

Connector : This chapter shows the innerworkings of gang productivity and its relation to economics and how they are so scarcley similar. It shows alot of statistics to back this information, it even stated how closley related the economic working chart for mcdonalds along with a drug selling gangs chart are. It also went on to talk about "why drug dealers live with their moms" mostly going into things about the payroll of a footsoldier versus the leader of the whole operation, the street sellers make VERY little money, deffinantly not enough to support their own (luxurious) house if they were to buy one. It gave a real perspective on how economics works in the world, and that even economics has its dark side.

summary: the history of drug use has been around scince ancient times, therefore it has been fueling the economy scince that time, people have been getting addicted and wanting more scince the time of the romans and edgyptians. It also shows how even in ill-legitimate places the use of orginization and work force can create an empire run of economics. Its almost scary how good buisness making can bring in a new era of drug abuse and crime rate.

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Chapter 5 Passage master -

"The risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different" Risk = Hazard + Outrage ... with less hazard and more outrage, there is over reaction. with more hazard and less outrage there is under reaction. Pool and Gun statistics "A child with alot of books in his home tends to test highter than a child with no books." "Bad School Good School, versus Black School White School" 168- 170 Child correlations and factors that might cause higher test scores. next pages explaning what matters and what doesnt matter. "most paretns who buy a lot of childrens books tend to be smart and well educated to begin with." "A book is in fact less a cause of intelligence than an indicator"

Summary: What makes a perfect parent, this chapter goes over the factors of how parenting and the surrounding of a child can affect his academic life, It gives a lot of suprising details, and reveals what most parents find to be good for their kid that really has no effect whatsoever. Along with that the chapter talks about an equation "risk = hazard + Outrage", it talks about how when people over hype something, it can turn into an epidemic that does not need to be fused over so wildley, along with something that is very dangerous that people decide to throw under the mat and not talk about, which can cause hazards for people that could have been easily avoided, if given more info about it. The history of parenting is focused on mainly in this chapter, what parents thought was good for there kids, and how they applied it. This also has an economic standpoint on things such as books, and camps and programs that parents are sending their kids to.