The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell A tipping point is anything that effects something in such a way that drastic changes take place. In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell gives us insight as to how we could possibly create a tipping point or epidemic in our own lives. If we learn about what makes tipping points, we will then be able to understand exactly how and why things happen in our world today. We would …showed first 75 words of 872 total…

…showed last 75 words of 872 total…to clean up all of the graffiti. With the improvement of the subway environment, as The Power of Context explains, the crime rate in New York's subways dropped dramatically. Throughout this paper, I have focused on just a few of the many examples of tipping points and epidemics. If we take a closer look into our individual lives and the situations we encounter, we will see that little things really can make a big difference.