Building upon our analyses of privilege in class, and after reading more about privilege, vulnerability, and power in Educated. A Memoir and other course assignments, offer an analysis of how and why power and privilege work. In a four-page paper written for an academic audience, describe and analyze a particular kind of power and privilege that interests you. Here, you may compare that kind of power and privilege over time or in different places. You may also wish to contrast the position of power and privilege with the deprivileged or disempowered positions that oppose it. Your purpose is to offer your readers a new understanding of how power works and why it works that way in this one narrow situation. In this analytical argument, your claim may be any combination of cause, effect, and/or value. HOW TO WRITE: Give a clear and brief description of type of privilege you are exploring (more in the genre of definition). Then analyze that position to determine how and why society values that position. What benefits do people in that privileged position experience? Consider: have those benefits changed over time, making them more or less powerful or more or less visible? Are there historical, economic, social, religious, or other reasons for giving privilege to that particular position? Do any of our course readings help you to explain those possible causes? What are the perils or dangers of privileging that position? What are the perils for the people in power? What are the perils for those out of power? Have those effects changed over time? Do those effects vary in different places? In your conclusion, you may even wish to consider whether or not society should do something about this form of power and privilege? Support your argument with evidence in the form of examples from popular culture or personal experience, observations from history or contemporary culture, or details from our course readings to support your claim.