Blog 6

For the second major project of this semester I will be focusing primarily on the top 1% of the financial community.  The reason I have decided to select this community is because there are so few of them but they control a lot of the power in our nation.  Many of these people are in the public eye and a lot of them are people that others tend to look up to and aspire to be like.  Included in this group are a lot of the higher up politicians, top executives in corporations, and professional athletes.  Sometime in everyone’s life I’m sure they have wanted to be like some of the richest people in America. 

For this project I believe I will look at both texts written about the group and texts that the group themselves have created talking about themselves.  There are many texts that will be easily available that are written about the top 1% and that will assist heavily with this project.  I have also come across in the past some documentaries that were made by family members in the 1% that talk about their lives and how things go with the money.  With that being said I will have a mix of the different kinds of texts.  Perhaps I will have some newspaper articles, magazine articles, online periodicals, and I will surely be using some videos that will help with this project.  For this project I think I will be looking at how the 1% is considered to be “othered” and not considered to be part of the norm in society.