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Joe Flom is a product of?
poverty
wealth
World War I
Europe
Holocaust
What was significant in Joe Flom's environment?
Living in the borough of Brooklyn
Jewish heritage
Russian immigrant families
Attending New York City College
Having blond hair
What is gingham cloth?
White cotton shirt fabric
Quilted material
Needlework sewn onto a cloth
Light weight, plain woven cloth, plaid pattern
What were TWO of Joe Flom's opportunities? MUST PICK TWO!
Live on Staten Island with his wife and new car.
Work at a large law firm in NYC.
Going to University of Michigan.
Working at a small upstart law firm.
Attending Harvard Law School
What does, "hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning," mean in Outliers?
It means work ties you down for a sentence of a few years.
Its an opportunity to become wealthy if you work hard.
If the work isn't satisfying, you won't be content.
Golden opportunities await those who are Jewish.
As long as you have intelligence, personality or ambition, you're good.
In response to the economic hardship of the Depression, the 1930s saw a "demographic trough." What is it?
It has to do with how many people are enrolled in college in the US.
Families simply stopped having children and as a result the generation born during that decade was markedly smaller than both the generation that preceded it and the generation that immediately followed it.
It dealt with how many thousands of babies were enrolled in preschool in the Northeastern part of the USA.
It deals with the month and year a hockey player was born.
Name TWO of the lessons of Joe Flom. MUST PICK TWO!
The importance of being Jewish
Attending Carnegie Hall for a quarter.
Demographics based on your birth month.
The importance of being Hungarian.
Garment industry & meaningful work
According to Gladwell, what are your "antecedents?"
Great grandparents that "proceeded" you
Ancestors that came before you
Your Aunty Ceedents on your daddy's size
A thing or event that proceeds another
a word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (especially a following relative pronoun) refers
What are some life lessons that can be learned from the European immigrants?
Their culture, generation and family history gave them the greatest of opportunities.
Having the Nordic look will automatically put you ahead of everyone else.
Being Muslim was the same as being Catholic.
It's pretty easy to become a professional lawyer or doctor and to work in the garment industry.
What is a "haberdashery?"
A store like Walmart.
People who sell clothes.
Place where men's suits and accessories are sold.
A dealer in goods for dressmaking and sewing.
Who were Maurice and Mort Janklow?
A father and son who were basketball players.
Two brothers who were lawyers.
A father and a son who were attorneys.
They were neighbors of Joe Flom.
What did the phrase, "its not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or work fulfills us," mean?
Eliminating the middleman.
It dealt with being an attorney and making over $100K.
Work had to fulfill three criteria: have autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward.
It dealt with finding a job where you punched a clock daily.
Why did Maurice Janklow struggle as a lawyer?
He came of age during the Depression and the economy was horrible for everyone.
He was too assertive, like Robert Oppennheimer.
He had practical knowledge but not analytical knowledge.
He was born in 1930.
He went into debt because he had a plane and a publishing company.
What is a proxy fight?
A fight between two law firms over a case.
A dispute to get the vote of shareholders so a company can be changes, i.e., board of directors voted out, etc.
A fight you might see on TV.
A friendly takeover done without litigation.
What did "acceptability is made up of the sum of its parts" mean?
You needed the right Nordic look: dark hair, gawky, short, fat but smart.
The importance of being Jewish.
The right: look, connections, personality, school, wealth.
The right: religion, Catholicism, be very active in church and be very pious.
What is an applique?
An embroidered item sewn onto another fabric.
A patch sewn over a hole in a jacket.
Light colored fabric sewn on a sewing machine.
Plaid, checkered or lattice patterns sewn onto plain cloths.
A haberdasher's patch.
Regina & Louis Borgenicht started out selling. . .
Ladies shoes and accessories
Mens clothes and accessories
Aprons for men to wear in factories
Little girls' aprons
Onions, potatoes and beans.
What did the Katzes, Rosens, Liptons, Watchtells & Floms all have in common? MUST SELECT THREE!
Born during a demographic trough, like around 1930.
Went to the worst of New York's private schools
They were all Jewish
Their parents did "meaningful" work in the garment industry.
What type of law does a constitutional scholar know about?
The Emoluments Clause
21st Amendment
U.S. Constitution
the Bill of Rights
What did the polio vaccine fight?
It fights to correct deficiencies in your hemoglobin.
It fights against the destruction of nerve cells in the spinal cord.
It fights against cancers that attack the immune system.
It fights against bacteria that can get in the lungs.
What is an aristocrat?
It is a commoner
An unemployed person
A member of the privileged class
A person of political stature
What is a hostile corporate takeover?
Its when one company attempts to take ownership of another company without permission of the board of directors, etc.
To acquire a target company by approaching its owners to ask for permission.
A proposal in which a target company's management and board of directors agree to a merger.
What is a corporate raider?
A member of the Los Angeles football team.
A person who attacks an enemy in the enemy's territory;
A lawyer who makes arrangements to purchase a business.
A financier who makes a practice of making hostile takeover bids for companies, either to control their policies or to resell them for a profit
What is a W.A.S.P.?
Wildin Antelopes Save Pot
White Anglo Saxon People
White Angels Saxophone Players
White Anglo Saxon Protestant
White Anglo Saxon Protestors
Examples of winners of the Pulitzer Prize include. . .choose more than one answer.
Certain online news, journalists & magazine writers
Charlie Murphy as himself on the Chapelle Show.
Prince for the best song writing
The New York Times for its articles
What does MYTHOLOGICAL mean?
mythological
willingness to go along with a myth
Harry Potter and his myths
fictitious, imaginary, deals with myths
What does AUTONOMY mean?
a legal dispute
deals with cars
independence
in prison
What is PAINSTAKINGLY?
something that is very easy
modified behavior that decreases tension
done with great care and thoughtfulness
inflamation of a body part
The lawyers that had Jewish heritage had two choices for being able to practice law:
Get hired at the best firms available.
Go into business for yourself and take "whatever came in the door."
Protest and sue to get jobs.
Go to a second tier law firm below the rung on Wall Street
Mort Janklow's career included. . . MUST SELECT TWO!
him owning a plane
him owning a publishing company
him having a big car
him marrying the daughter of a prominent Talmudist
What are some of the benefits of being born in a smaller generation? MUST SELECT TWO
Your university is delightful and spacious. Your professors are very friendly and helpful.
Medical staff unable to spend time with you do to the number of other babies they have to take care off besides you.
The supply of job applicants is low so there is plenty of opportunity for you to get the job you really want!
There were few resources available for you.
What did Schnittwaren Handlung mean?
It has to do with mittens.
The handling of cloth and fabrics or piece goods.
Its a Volkswagen.
Its a lung disease that affects marijuana smokers.
What were the two things that were advantageous about the garment industry?
The factory floor spaces were easy to rent.
Sewing machines were newer.
It was explicitly entrepreneurial.
Being in charge of your own destiny.
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