Marita's Bargain By Malcolm Gladwell Analysis

Success At what point do students feel successful or think they have reached the meaning of success? It’s a very complicated topic and many students don’t really know the actual meaning of being successful in life. Many of them are blinded by social media, which mainly show’s artist’s, model’s, celebrities, and basically famous people. These students think that they must be rich and have everything they have ever wanted or dreamed of to feel like they have reached their goal. In reality they are completely wrong. Many of these famous people have been fortunate and lucky to be where they are. Success isn’t all about the money or being famous. Anyone can be productive in life in a variety of ways, but of course everyone has their own opinion

When looking at it this way the main thing is helping the students improve on the subjects where they don’t even need help in. For example a student may be bad at english but fantastic in english. Even tho he/she may be great in english they should still put more hours to go beyond their level and be on top of the game. Evidence he uses is Karl Alexander’s research report which gives the conclusion of school’s taking time from vacation and adding this time for students to spend in school. There will be improvement’s on whatever they are focusing on. The school knowledge is Power Program (KIPP Academy) proves this claim. A student from this program named Marita was examined by Gladwell, he says, “She wakes up for school at 5am and doesn’t come back until 5pm.” She comes home this late because of KIPP but the program is truly helping her. Although she gives up vacation, friends, evenings, and weekends she is getting more benefits in order to reach success. This student is only 12 years old but she is willing to put in all the hard work and time to reach her goals. The stats show the proof of this program or idea being a great. “80 percent of KIPP graduates will go to college.” The main focus here is for the students to work on themselves and not worry about anyone else. As long as the student puts in more of the amount of effort required they will see how far they have reached and feel better. Because if the students aims for the minimum they will not see any progress or improvement in anything and will be wasting the useful time. Although many people say too much work may harm the student others can show evidence by comparing a regular student to one whom is in this kind of