Friday, February 6, 2009
Wal-Mart
I chose to do a little research on the author of "Wal-Martian Invasion." My first instinct was to go on Wikipedia and type in her name. I was interested in finding out her political beliefs to see if this had anything to do with her opinion on this particular topic. What I found was that she is a feminist, socialist, and political activist. Well that explains it. This whole article is written from a very socialist point of view. You can tell she hates the fact that Wal-mart has become such a monopoly. One line that I think really proves this point is found on page 130. "...making Wal-Mart the world's largest sweatshop." Even though workers get paid at least minimum wage in addition to benefits Barbara still feels like employees are treated like slaves. But why should these people make more money? If they wanted to they could go to law, business or medical school. This is how you know she is a socialist.
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I like that you looked up information about the author. It shows how a particular piece of writing can be biased because of the writer's point of view. Knowing the background of the writer really allows you to look at it objectively.
Knowing the background of this writer caused her credibility to go down. Her writing became more biased.
I felt exactly the same way. I agree that her arguments were biased because of her different personal beliefs. I also found out that she worked at a Wal-Mart in an effort to find information for her book. So in other words, she worked in Wal-Mart and then searched for things that went wrong so that she could make money from selling them in her book.
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