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Introduction: "Step Out of the Car" and Part One: Spies and Diplomats

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Gladwell, Malcolm. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know. Little Brown and Company, 2019. E-book.

• The introduction, entitled “Step Out of the Car!” begins on page 1.

• Sandra Bland was on her way to her new job at Prairie View University when she was pulled over during a traffic stop.

• Officer Brian Encinia told her that she had failed to use her turn signal.

• The tone of the event changed markedly and became heated.

• The conflict at the center of the interaction between Sandra Bland and Brian Encinia spurred on Gladwell’s creation of the book Talking to Strangers.

• Gladwell shifts to discussing the 16th century’s bloodiest conflict.

• The bloodshed occurred when the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes...

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