Category: David and Goliath

In the Elah valley, a massive warrior Goliath was slain by a shepherd David in a battle. Many see the battle to be one of sheer luck and wit, but this fable could uncover a more broad and common perspective. Gladwell argues that the weaker person, or underdog, will not always lose or be at…

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants is a non-fiction book written by Malcom Gladwell, a Canadian journalist, author and public speaker, and was published on October 1st, 2013. This books purpose is to focus on the probability of improbable events to happen. It analyzes situations where one outcome is favor…

How many time do we try to dress up just to put ourselves become someone we are not familiar? People would like to hear stories about the underdog, but rather than that, everyone loves to be a top dog! But it is unrealistic because not everyone is the same. The story David and Goliath, written…

Leadership is an important quality. It is the ability to provide direction. Being a leader can be both an honor and a difficult role. The bible provides a multitude of notable leaders. Among these leaders is David. David who is also known as King David was the son of Jesse and Nitzevet and was born…

David and Goliath is the story of a young shepherd whom lacking of any kind of combat training, managed to overcome a giant, who was sophisticated in combat tactics, just using his wit. In modern times, that act is used as an analogy to compare people who against all odds overcome a difficult situation in…

Through the summer I read one of the most interesting books that I have ever stidied, it was the novel David and Goliath. David and Goliath was not at all what I expected it to be, it was not a whole book about the story of David and Goliath but it was a collection of…

In the United States, many social scientists can agree that the society they live in is stratified into social classes. There have been disagreements, various definitions, and competing models which make a social class very controversial issue in America. Social stratification is the main reason for the relational set of inequalities in economic, political, social,…