5th Paper Final Draft
Julian Malile
Professor Tommasi
Expository Writing
2 December 2014
Writings Involvement with Self and Society The self is expressed in a multitude of ways ranging from speeches to television as well as writing. Not only that but as human beings it is instinctual to make an observation and write it down, but we tend to add our own personal view as to what we believe, or interpret something entirely else from the observation. By reading Karen Ho's "Biographies of Hegemony" and Jean Twenge's "An Army of One: Me" essays as well as Robert Thurman's "Wisdom" it is evident that each employed a distinctive argument and method to explain their views on what they wrote but what each of them shared in common was how their writing allowed their "self" to share their opinions and views so as to bring society together; also the reason as to why they chose writing as their medium is because unlike television and radio there is no other voice but the readers that is left to make a decision and judgment based on the writing. It is the readers "self" voice that Karen Ho uses in "Biographies of Hegemony" to her advantage when discussing how finance and education now interconnect in ways that many never knew before: some of America's elite and prestigious establishments such as Harvard and Princeton have such a close connection to Wall Street and its firms. When Karen Ho discusses in her essay about a "culture of smartness"; this smartness being "central to understanding Wall Street's financial agency, how investment bankers are personally and institutionally empowered to enact their worldviews, export their practices" (Ho 167), Ho is attempting to bring society and herself together in this essay to show that the people who run our economy are people "selves" who believes they are the cream of the crop or the "smartest". Even Robert Hopkins, vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Lehman Brothers, exclaims that the people they hire are "about the smartest people in the
Professor Tommasi
Expository Writing
2 December 2014
Writings Involvement with Self and Society The self is expressed in a multitude of ways ranging from speeches to television as well as writing. Not only that but as human beings it is instinctual to make an observation and write it down, but we tend to add our own personal view as to what we believe, or interpret something entirely else from the observation. By reading Karen Ho's "Biographies of Hegemony" and Jean Twenge's "An Army of One: Me" essays as well as Robert Thurman's "Wisdom" it is evident that each employed a distinctive argument and method to explain their views on what they wrote but what each of them shared in common was how their writing allowed their "self" to share their opinions and views so as to bring society together; also the reason as to why they chose writing as their medium is because unlike television and radio there is no other voice but the readers that is left to make a decision and judgment based on the writing. It is the readers "self" voice that Karen Ho uses in "Biographies of Hegemony" to her advantage when discussing how finance and education now interconnect in ways that many never knew before: some of America's elite and prestigious establishments such as Harvard and Princeton have such a close connection to Wall Street and its firms. When Karen Ho discusses in her essay about a "culture of smartness"; this smartness being "central to understanding Wall Street's financial agency, how investment bankers are personally and institutionally empowered to enact their worldviews, export their practices" (Ho 167), Ho is attempting to bring society and herself together in this essay to show that the people who run our economy are people "selves" who believes they are the cream of the crop or the "smartest". Even Robert Hopkins, vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Lehman Brothers, exclaims that the people they hire are "about the smartest people in the