Caring for Your Introvert Analysis

I found this article, Caring for Your Introvert by Jonathon Rauch, very interesting in terms of the writing style and thought process behind it. From what I understood from the article is that the purpose of this article is to raise awareness about introverts and to address any misconceptions that the audience has about the matter. It is worth noting however that Rauch is an introvert himself, which explains the bias in this article. From reading the article, the reader can tell two different characteristics about Rauch. One, he is very proud of being an introvert and thinks very highly of introverts as a whole. And two, that Rauch absolutely cannot stand the introvert counterpart; the extrovert. When talking about all of the misconceptions that the public has of introverts, such as them being antisocial and generally odd, Rauch seems to feel almost personally hurt by these thoughts and becomes very defensive in explaining why introverts are not only just normal people, but that they are smarter than everyone else. With the same passion that Rauch praises introverts, he also bashes extroverts as a whole. In one particular section, Rauch discusses how extroverts are unintelligent and the large majority of what they say has little to no significance at all. I found this article very ironic in some aspects and I found that the irony of this article can be summed up in one very small section. In the section asking if introverts are arrogant, Rauch almost immediately leads off by saying something along the lines of, no we are just more intelligent than everyone else. I believe that most readers and audiences could clearly see that this article is written by someone who is very biased on the matter and makes very little to no attempt at masking his bias.

Wasteland Analysis

In the article Wasteland written by Frederick Kaufman, Kaufman recounts and analyzes his search for the truth about where our waste goes once we forget about it and how it eventually circles back to us. Kaufman uses immense imagery towards the beginning of this article to explain just how grotesque the problem of our overflowing waste is. Before reading this article I had not had much knowledge on the problem of our waste. I knew there was some problem with it but I hadn't realized the magnitude of the problem. After hearing Kaufman's firsthand accounts of scenes he experienced while on his search for the truth, I now realize how much of a problem we really do have. I was especially intrigued by Kaufman’s accounts towards the end of the article when he was talking about his experiences with the CEO of Synargo. Kaufman seemed to know exactly what the problem was with this waste company even before he started talking to the CEO; the real question that Kaufman seemed to have was whether or not the CEO could own up to the problems and if he had any plans to fix them. Being a business major myself, I completely understand where the CEO of Synargo was coming from in terms of finding the most cost efficient way to dispose of waste and recycle it into a useful product. However, I do not agree with building cost efficient business models at the expense of our environment. This was a very interesting article I thought and as for the writer’s technique and voice, I thought it was wonderful. One particular spot where his description was very good was when he was describing the building where he was meeting the CEO of Synargo. Kaufman spent a large amount of time in creating a vivid picture of the meeting place in order help the reader understand the façade that this company had of being a proactive, environmentally friendly corporation. Overall, I thought this was a very well written article about a topic that all people in the world need to be more aware of.