Lifosuction Questions

Cullen Murphy's thesis seems to portray the idea that we're used to people adding fake information to their resumes to heighten the image of themselves. People also detract information from their resume to appear more humble. It's not always a bad idea to detract information in order to appear more relatable.
There seem to be approximately 19 examples in this essay.

Reading Closely and Thinking Critically: 

1. People engage in lifosuction to appear as or closer to the average Joe and appear more relatable.
2. It's easier to completely omit information than to explain it to public. He believes that it is commonplace in society today to use lifosuction but he believes maybe people should expose even less about themselves. He states, "Rather than discourage lifosuction, perhaps we should encourage people to subtract even more about themselves from the public view than they currently do" (253).
3. Yes they do. Some of the omitted truth can cause greater harm even though it may have been unintentional.
4. Most public officials delete information to appear more relatable to the public majority.
5. Even though his degree was only a 2 year degree, he still chose to omit that information to relate to his constituents, resulting in his 3rd return to office by reelection.

Examining Structure and Strategy:

1. Public figures use omission to establish increased perceived credibility. Paragraph 2 best displays this thesis.
2. The tone is moderately serious but mockingly rhetorical and it stays pretty consistent throughout the piece.
3. The idea of resume-padding helps to give an issue to contrast the main point of lifosuction to the traditional method of adding false information to someone's biography.
4. In all paragraphs but the first and second, Murphy uses topic sentences to introduce the supporting subject of each.
5. He used subject, verb, object in his examples.

Considering Language and Style:

1. It's clever for the essay because the removal of facts from one's life is to the removal of fat from one's body.
2. Word definitions:

• Tribune: a person who upholds or defends the rights of the people
• Dint: mark (a surface) with impressions or hollows
• Cadre: a small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession
• Pugilist: a boxer, especially a professional one
• Proletariat: workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism)

By:
Sierra Baumann (Sometimes a lie is better than the truth)
Sydney Evans ( Purchasing something pretty will make you pretty as well.)
Ahnun Brainerd (life is better with a dog)