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Just about everything is good in moderation. This holds true for certain foods, social time with friends, and all forms of media. In analyzing the contents of the articles “Small Change” by Gladwell and “Watching TV Makes you Smarter.” Looking at both of these articles at face value could return polar opposite takeaways, when the reality is that both are somewhat true. Television and social media when consumed and utilized proportionally can have positive outcomes and negative outcomes when overutilized. By extracting three elements from the article by Johnson, an interesting phenomenon can be exhibited. The components that encompass the substance of the entire article, suit criticisms from Gladwell but are represented as something that should be strived for by Johnson. The elements were the word “intricacies,” the phrase “narratives demarcate the line between texture and substance,” (Johnson 287) and the sentence “what I am arguing for is a change in the criteria we use to deter...