writing

1. it should be done in 7 hours. 

2.please follow the format exactly.

3. please build the connection between two authors.

Last Name 1

Student’s full name

English 101: Section (i.e., EL or V3)

Instructor: Suzanne Boswell

Date turned in (i.e., 03 February 2016)

Paper # (Rough/Final Draft): Paper Title

This is the formatting you are required to use for all the papers you write for this class.

Papers must be typed, and should be double spaced throughout. Your document should have 1-

inch margins on all sides. You should be using 12-point Times New Roman font only.

The top of your document should contain your identifying information: your first and last

name, the title of the course, my name, and the date on which the paper will be turned in (left-

aligned, in that order). Your paper should also have a title, centered just below your identifying

information, in 12-point font. The rest of the essay should be left-aligned. Each paragraph must

be indented a half-inch (just press “tab” once). Make sure there is no extra spacing between

paragraphs. Go to “Format,” and then click “Paragraph” to be sure that there is 0pt spacing

“before” and “after” after each paragraph. Note how the spacing between my paragraphs is the

same as the spacing between the rest of my lines!

Every page should have a header that includes your last name and the page number. This

can be created by selecting “Header and Footer” from the “View” menu in Microsoft Word.

First, click the “Align Right” icon. Next, type your last name and a space. Then, click the “Insert

Page Number” icon and click “Close.” Papers should be stapled in the upper left-hand corner.

Citations should follow MLA style as outlined in Keys for Writers. A piece of quoted text

should be followed by a parenthetical citation of the page number on which it appears. For

example, Boswell writes, “Don’t use Comic Sans as the font for your paper” (3). If you do not

mention the name of the author before the quotation, your parenthetical citation should also

Last Name 2

include the author’s name. For example, one instructor asks that you “please staple your papers –

don’t do the weird corner-folding thing” (Boswell 12). Quotations that exceed four lines (called

“block quotations”) should be indented one inch (and should be avoided at all costs in your first

few essays). The writing program thinks formatting is important for two reasons:

“First, it shows your ability to follow directions. Second, and most

importantly, it ensures that everyone is writing the same number of pages.

If Ahmed wrote five pages following the exact instructions, but Eva used a

font that added an extra half-page, then added an extra space between

paragraphs and changed the margin size, Ahmed’s done a lot more work –

and should be graded accordingly” (Boswell 1).

If you want to cut words out of a quotation to avoid block quoting use an ellipses to indicate

where you have taken out words. For example, Boswell writes that she “once read about a trick

in which you change all the periods in your paper to 16pt font to add space… she doesn’t think

this technique… is a great idea” (15). You can find more information about MLA citations in

Keys for Writers (chapter 3) or on the Purdue OWL website. Finally, please make sure that there

is a Works Cited page (MLA style) at the end of your essay. Good luck!

Institutional environments are dependent upon the experiences people undergo and the
corporation’s overseeing them, rather than on the human capacity to do good.
All people have the capacity to do good, regardless of the negative circumstances they are in.
People have good intentions, and will prove to work for the greater good of the world. The female
teachers in Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel” prove to continually want the best in intellectual growth
for their students and the atmosphere they are in, regardless of the continual harassment and abuse
they endure. Faludi introduces December Green, a female teacher who was hired on a basis of being
tenure-track potential. Faludi writes of Green’s astonishing accomplishments, saying that “Green’s
work at The Citadel was highly praised- she received an award for teaching, research, and service”
(86). Green’s efforts at the school were great enough to have earned awards, praise, and recognition.
The awards Green received for “teaching and research” speak not only for her dedication and
pursuit of education, but also for the initiative she takes towards sharing that pursuit with her
students and empowering them to do their best in their academics. Her award for “service” speaks
for her selfless nature, and makes her giving spirit evident. These awards exemplify how Green
strives to be a good person, doing good things that benefit numerous people, despite the harsh
circumstances she’s been placed in. Faludi goes on to write about how Green “challenged [her
student’s] essays” (86) and maintained her “left-leaning political” (86) beliefs, regardless of the
threats received from her students to change. Green’s “challenge” helps convey her efforts towards
helping her students become better writers while strengthening their arguments. Furthermore, as
reflected in the strength behind her “left-leaning” political beliefs, Green proves to be a strong,
female teacher who would not back down from her own beliefs for anyone besides herself. Such
confidence intimidated the cadets into relying only on their abuse towards her to feel strong.
Ultimately, Green works as a prime example of people being capable of good, regardless of their
negative circumstances, as she steadfastly sticks to her original, strong beliefs and continually worked
towards the best for her students until fear for her life stopped her. Another example of innate
goodness represented in the human race is Dr. Kirmayer in Ethan Watters’ “The Mega-Marketing of
Depression.” Watters interviews Dr. Kirmayer regarding his intentions within the mental health
industry in relation to the work of major corporate company GlaxoSmithKline. Watters quotes Dr.
Kirmayer describing his interest in his field of psychology as saying “People like me got into cultural
psychiatry because we were interested in differences between cultures- even treasured those
differences” (519). Kirmayer speaks of his “interest in differences between cultures”, which so
innately defines him as a doctor. Kirmayer maintains that interest because it holds a great deal of
importance to him. Kirmayer goes on to explain the pressures to change his passions as a
psychiatrist by saying “So it’s certainly ironic that cultural psychiatrists sometimes end up being
handmaidens to these global marketing machines…intent on manipulating cultural differences…in
order to capitalize on those changes” ( Watters 519). The focus on what Kirmayer finds interesting
is placed on the “differences between cultures.” Rather than trying to “manipulate [each] cultural
difference in order to capitalize on those changes,” Kirmayer values, or “treasures,” each difference
as it is. Kirmayer’s strength in his beliefs, as well as his value of differences, speaks for his strength

as a human, much like Green’s passion for teaching and strength behind her political beliefs, both
proving their human capacity for good.

An example of people having the capacity for good is found in each author because of their
efforts to bring light to the unjust situations they analyze in their essays. Each author, Faludi,
Watters, and Ho, identified an indecency performed by an institution in a position of power and felt
strongly enough about such an indecency to raise awareness to the fact. Miller and Spellman define
Watters’ intentions as, “acknowledging the reality of mental illness, he wants his readers to
understand that the terminology we apply to them reflects our own history and culture” (Miller and
Spellman 512). Watters’ “want” for his “readers to understand” the effect of their offensive words
shows his passion and care for the victims of mental illness. He wants to bring attention to the
actions and terms that result from “our own history and culture” to bring attention to mindless
insensitivity while extending consideration for the feelings of other people. As Watters writes, his
care, compassion, and goodness as a human being is shown in “The Mega-Marketing of Depression
in Japan” and his other stories. Author Karen Ho wanted to identify and object to the intentions
that create the ideal Wall Street elite employee in her “Biographies of Hegemony.” Miller and
Spellman quote Karen Ho, regarding her views of prestige by saying “Wall Street shapes not just the
stock market but also the very nature of employment and what kinds of workers are valued… The
kind of worker they imagine is a worker like themselves… This becomes the prototype, but in many
ways that’s quite removed from the daily lives of most American workers” (165). Ho points out the
effects that Wall Street’s standards unequivocally have on Americans. Although the average
American cannot meet the standards of the Wall Street prestige, Ho’s essay highlights the inevitable
feeling of inadequacy resulting from this exclusivity. Ho’s choice towards being a good person is
reflected in her history as a member of the Wall Street elite (Miller and Spellman 165), who
understood the implications of her position on feelings of other people. Ho cares about other
people, despite being surrounded by a community of people who don’t, proving her capacity for
good, regardless of circumstance. Faludi’s passion for writing was ignited early in life, when she
discovered the effect of her words as a writer. Miller and Spellman quote Faludi, describing her
passion by saying “I discovered that through writing I could make my views heard, and I could
actually create change” (72). Faludi’s desire to “make change” “through [her] writing” speak for her
interest in helping other people besides herself. Faludi naturally is guided towards goodness, as
reflected in her writing, despite the atmosphere she is researching in, such as The Citadel. The
actions of calling out such major institutions of GlaxoSmithKline, companies on Wall Street, and
The Citadel Academy taken by these authors proves the importance of doing good in the world and
raising awareness, despite the negative environments they themselves are in, inherently proving the
fact that humans have a genuine capacity for good.
While all humans have capacity for goodness, the experiences they undergo, both negative
and positive, prove to have a great effect on their capacity for good. More often than not, when a
person performs a horrific act, it is often the result of a previous negative experience. A prime
example of how terrible experiences can alter the intentions and beliefs of good people is the abuse

undergone and consequently doled out by the upperclassmen at The Citadel Academy in Faludi’s
“The Naked Citadel.” In October of 1993, one student was attacked in his dorm in the middle of
the night by two upperclassmen, supposedly for not saluting properly. Faludi describes how the
offender in the attack defended his actions, saying that “what he did was common procedure- and
no different from the ‘motivational’ treatment he had received as a knob at the hands of a senior
who came into his room” (81). Faludi understands the attacker had received the same abuse from an
upperclassman during his period of being a knob. As a result of enduring previous, recurring abuse,
the attacker began to internalize the abuse as acceptable, so much so that he passed it on to another
knob. This serves as a direct example of how the negative experiences, or abuse, the attacker
endured previously explicitly caused his future acts of aggression and abuse, towards the victim,
leaving them with more negative experiences in turn. In Watters’ “The Mega-Marketing of
Depression in Japan,” Watters speaks of major pharmaceutical powerhouse GlaxoSmithKline’s
intentions behind marketing the ineffective SSRI drug to the naïve Japanese people. As company
GlaxoSmithKline grew into a corporation, they became money-hungry, proving to put the safety of
their consumers at risk for a temporary rise in sales. Watters writes “The class of antidepressant
drugs known as… SSRI’s had become the wonder-drug of the 1990’s, at least in terms of the profits
they’d garnered for the drug companies” (515). Watters describes the incredible profits the
pharmaceutical companies at the time had earned from the ineffective drugs, identifying
GlaxoSmithKline’s greed and hunger for profit, being so great that they would willingly lie to their
consumers. Watters continues to describe the competition within the pharmaceutical companies as
having a “wide agreement that lucrative international markets had yet to be tapped” (515). By
describing this “wide agreement,” Watters emphasizes the boundless interest companies from all
over the world had expressed in dominating the new drug market in Japan, as well as in other
numerous underdeveloped countries. Watters describes such markets as “lucrative,” speaking of
their high potential for extreme profit, proving to be enticing for more pharmaceutical corporations.
Had GlaxoSmithKline not experienced the fierce competition of the pharmaceutical market, they
would not have grown into the money-hungry, morally inept company they became. This is a prime
example of how experiences, such as fierce, harsh, boundless competition, undergone by the
company shaped them into making the bad decisions they did. Another example of negative
experiences molding an individual’s perspective can be found in the Ivy League student’s obsession
with status, as a result of their culture. As Ho describes her experience at a recruitment session for
elite Wall Street companies, she explains “I was struck by how proclamations of elitism seemed
foundational to the very core of how investment bankers see themselves, the world, and their place
in it” (175). Ho explains how essential status, titles, and reputations are to all investment bankers
applying for Wall Street positions. As a result of growing up as a student in the Ivy League world,
recruits have learned to define themselves solely according to their accomplishments, titles, and
“proclamations of elitism.” Their definitions of self-worth according to their reputation clearly serve
as an example of how the experiences of an individual, such as attendance at an Ivy League school,
have a great effect on their views and beliefs, such as the importance placed on status, throughout

the rest of their life. In the case of the typical Ivy League student basing their self-worth off of their
accomplishments, it is not necessarily harmful to the individual, but applying such a belief to other
people who were not granted the same luxuries, such as attendance at an Ivy League school, can
prove to be harmful, as they may view themselves as more worthy than other individuals. Overall,
previous experiences play a defining role in an individual’s views regarding themselves and the
surrounding world, consequently playing equally powerful role in the ways people’s experiences
affect the world around them.
Since an individual’s experiences have a great effect on their views and beliefs, the
environment depends on the experiences of the individuals within the world. In Ho’s “Biographies
of Hegemony,” she tells of how society has molded Ivy League and Wall Street into representing the
pinnacle of elitism, explaining that “The ‘culture of smartness’ is central to understanding Wall
Street’s financial agency, how investment bankers are personally and institutionally empowered to
enact their worldviews, export their practices, and serve as models for far-reaching socioeconomic
change” (167). Ho speaks of how the “culture of smartness”, a representation for the generic
understanding of intelligence within their culture, purely defines the entire Wall Street world. The
Wall Street world, as well as that of economies all over the world, have learned to recognize Ivy
League recruits as “models of far-reaching socioeconomic change.” The world proves dependent on
the experiences and beliefs of the individuals inhabiting it. If everyone within the corporate world
did not heavily value an Ivy League degree, the degree would mean nothing. It is not the degree and
individual that give value to an Ivy League degree, it is the individuals within a society that choose to
buy into believing in the value behind the degree, proving the environment’s dependency on the
individual. In Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel,” she tells of how the secluded, all-male school morphs
the students’ views of women into being biased and objectifying. Faludi describes sexism within the
Citadel by quoting another student, Michael Lake, with saying, “According to the Citadel creed of
the cadet, women are objects, they’re things that you can do with whatever you want to” (85). This
quote speaks of the blatant disrespect and abusive nature towards women The Citadel Academy
assumes and instills within its students. Lake describes it as the “Citadel creed,” specifying that since
this belief is so commonly exposed to all the students, enough so as to be referred to as a creed, it
must have been adopted by quite a majority of The Citadel population. If an overwhelming majority
of the students entered the institution strongly believing in complete equality for women, the sexism
within The Citadel would die out. The impact the sexist views towards women within The Citadel as
“objects,” or “things that you can do whatever you want to,” proves the dependency the
environment has on the individuals inhabiting it. If an individual’s views did not heavily impact the
environment, more women would be employed, socially accepted, and enrolled at The Citadel.
Another example proving the environment’s dependency upon the experiences and beliefs of the
individuals within it is found in Ethan Watters’ “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan.” In
the essay, Watters addresses how the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline bribed doctors and
psychologists into sharing their extensive, personal knowledge and research on the differences
between culture and mental illness. GlaxoSmithKline paid for luxurious conferences, with

extravagant amenities to coerce the doctors into helping GlaxoSmithKline gain an advantage on the
psychological drug market in Japan. Dr. Kirmayer himself describes GalxoSmithKline’s intent with
the conferences, saying “The focus was not on the medications… they were not trying to sell their
drugs to us. They were interested in what we knew about how cultures shape the illness experience”
(515). By defining the intent of GlaxoSmithKline as a demand for information, rather than the
marketing of their newest drug, Kirmayer defines GlaxoSmithKline’s thirst for monetary success. If
the company was genuinely interested in the research as a means of bettering the company and its
products, they wouldn’t have felt the pressing need to buy the doctors through such special
treatment. GlaxoSmithKline’s desperate attempt to buying the doctors and their knowledge serves as
a prime example of how the environment is dependent upon the individuals and the experiences
that have molded them as people. If GlaxoSmithKline knew that bribery was not at all a viable
option towards obtaining the information they needed to be successful in the Japanese market, they
would not have wasted their time. The environment inherently depends on the individuals within
the collective society.

The environment surrounding an institution inevitably is dependent upon the experiences
the individuals within that institution undergo. People are capable of exuding an ultimately positive,
good nature, as seen through Faludi’s example of December Green, Watters’ example of Dr.
Kirmayer, and the authors themselves. However, sometimes people allow themselves, as well their
intentions and views, to become consumed by the experiences they undergo, as seen through the
victim in Faludi’s essay, the competition GlaxoSmithKline experiences, and the attitudes adopted by
the Wall Street elite and its potential recruits. These experiences consequently shape the institutional
environments around these individuals resulting in The Citadel, Wall Street, and a betrayed Japanese
culture.