Expert Power

Maria, Starlet, Emiliano, Ram

What is expert power?
- Assumption

- Particular special skills

Maria
“At the time I was a child sitting at my desk seeing England for the
first time, I was already very familiar with the greatness of it”
(Kincaid 1006).
Starlet
“The England I was looking at was laid out on a map gently,
beautifully, delicacy, a very special jewel; it lay on a bed of sky blue...
England was a special jewel alright, and only special people got to
wear it” (Kincaid 1006).
Emiliano
“In me, the space between the idea of it and its reality had become
filled with hatred, and so when at last I saw it I wanted to take it into
my hands and tear it into little pieces and then crumble it up as if it
were clay, child’s clay” (Kincaid 1011).
Ram
“I find England ugly, I hate England; the weather is like a jail
sentence, the English are a very ugly people, the food in England is
like a jail sentence, the hair of English people is so straight, so dead
looking, the English have an unbearable smell so different from the
smell of people I know…” (Kincaid 1013)
Orwell
“I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is
his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing
dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of
his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the ‘natives,’ and
so in every crisis he has got to do what the ‘natives’ expect of him”
(Orwell 1103).
Emerson
- “But mark that in the task he had achieved an excellent education,
and become associated with distinguished scholars whom he had
interested in his pursuit; in short, had formed a college for himself;
the enthusiast had found the master, the masters, whom he sought.
Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil
and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself” (Emerson
190).
Thoreau
“Children, who play life, discern its true laws and relations more
clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily,but who think that they
are wiser by experience, that is, by failure” (Thoreau 299).
Twain
“But as a rule our self-approval has its source in but one place and
not elsewhere — the approval of other people” (Twain 800).