Biographies Of Hegemony Analysis

Since the crack of dawn, people fight for hegemony, causing them to use extreme tactics to become the leader or to stay in power. Some play by the rules and win the game fair and square; however, there are those that play dirty and use every advantage that they can to make it to the top regardless of who they hurt. Karen Ho writes in “Biographies of Hegemony”, about her personal life at Princeton and how investment bankers at Wall Street devote all of their time to recruit students from Princeton and Harvard. These investor are ruthless and promote propaganda that makes students commit to them as soon as they enter college. Hegemony occurs within the investors because they using different techniques to lure students into joining their bank.

Being an adult with little to any background makes it problematic to find a job unless one knows a person in the workplace. Connections with higher authority can help a person secure a job, become wealthy, and can take advantage by using their job to make more money in an unethical way. Ho writes about her experiences and how her university forces students to make connections in order to become successful. The college focuses on forcing students to connect with Wall Street because it is a part of hegemony. Investors are allowing the connections to happen so they can lure more students onto their side to help them with their problems. Ho remembers her college’s “environment, the strength of alumni and peer networks, the cultural linking of success and smartness with Wall Street, the hierarchical narrowing of career options and what constitutes prestige, to name a few” (170). Princeton made an enormous effort to link up their students with Wall Street. They made strong connections with alumni and peer networks to help the students understand what they are getting themselves into. The university made sure that the link between “success and smartness with Wall Street” was resilient and indestructible. Hegemony would not be possible without elite networking because one would not have any companions to support

In order to make a company improve and intangible, a leader would use intense methods to ensure whoever is working with them can handle any situation and will not alter their opinion about staying. Ho realizes that, “Wall Street’s intense focus and persistence at Princeton, Harvard, and a few other campuses have repercussions for student culture. Newspapers and dorms overflow with debates about the pros and cons of investment banking work life” (77). The Ivy leagues and investors were pushing the students too far about getting a job at Wall Street. Many did not know whether or not to major in this intense career because the investors and the school were being too aggressive. Having numerous debates about whether or not to major in one career is a sign that they are pushing them too far. Part of being a leader in hegemony is weaning out the weak and rewarding those for their hard work. Nonetheless, there can be a way to do so without overworking the students and making them question if they want to be involved with investment banking. Another way that leaders are aggressive is the way they treat their followers. Foer wrote, “There’s no doubting the emotional and psychological power possessed by Facebook… bragged about how it increased voter turnout (and organ donation) by subtly amping up the social pressures that