lifestyle grow up to be proper, while those who live in poverty follow the path to failure. In the essays “The Power of Context,” “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” and “Biographies of Hegemony,” written respectfully by Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Johnson, and Karen Ho, the theme of minute changes in one’s environment, continuing to affect one heavily in the long term is brought up numerous times. Gladwell asserts the concept by talking about the incident with Bernherd Goetz and the stigma attached to the shooting