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    providing imagery of the Arctic to illustrate its beauty and diverse wildlife for the audience to visualize, stressing the importance of the wildlife refuge's relationship to the country's heritage, and pointing out its significance and impact to the country. With these topics, Carter builds a strong argument that draws in the audience and convinces them. In the beginning of the foreword, Carter elaborates on the Arctic's sheer vastness and beauty by incorporating a personal point of view about "the

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    the hurtful comments made to her referencing her natural beauty. She uses self-image as the prominent theme, a tone that shifts quickly and dramatically and a counter argument that walks you through all stages of life. Overall, the theme of “Barbie Doll” is self-image. Self-image is something that every woman will face and struggle with. “She went to and fro apologizing (10)”, suggests that the young woman does struggle with her natural beauty. “Her good nature wore out (15)”, shows that eventually

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    writes the beauty myth to show her readers the ways the women portray and live up the the standards of men, however the beauty myth “is not about women at all…[but] about men’s institutional power”(13) The beauty myth attacks men for feeling the need to always be dominant over women, in every way possible. Throughout the entire book, Wolf uses historical evidence to show the difference between the beauty myth then, and how it is practiced now, as women grew power, the standards for beauty have become

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    The logic of Orbach’s argument appears to be more unintentionally disorganized and misdirected, rather than an attempt to intentionally deceive the reader into supporting her claim. A common theme in her essay was the use of the word “Western” to describe the destructive media images that she is criticizing; this is evident the sentence: “In Singapore, the latest craze is for the Western nose (Orbach 246).” and “In South Korea, 50 percent of teenage girls have the double eyelid slit operation to

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    confuse its readers with its argument, than it is to convince them. The negative attributes of this essay: its disorderly placement of evidence for her argument, tendency to deviate significantly from its proposed thesis, the author’s decision to oversimplify the target of her argument and use of logical fallacies, greatly overshadow the more positive attributes of the essay: its effective use of emotional appeal and its method of getting the reader involved in the argument through the use of rhethorical

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    Aristotle Piety

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    must be something on which everything else depends, and this can be understood by examining definition. A perfect definition should list just those things without which the subject could not exist without. This passage applies to Aristotle’s argument because it deals with clarifying the definition of ‘piety’. Socrates says “..you didn’t teach me adequately earlier when I asked what the pious was, but you told me that what you’re now doing is pious..”, which aligns with what Aristotle was saying

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    calliagnosia.  I disagree with Tamera’s argument for various reasons.  Before I refute her argument, I will summarize it. Tamera argues that using looks to manipulate people is unfair. She mainly is against advertisers who use beauty to make money but is also against her actions of using her looks to win back Garrett.  She also insists that she wants to be on the same playing field as Garret, who has his calli turned on. Tamera’s main and final argument is that “beauty isn’t the problem, it’s how some people

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    Walter Pater on aestheticism. The author discusses the concept of aesthetic gothic and discovering beauty within darkness. Thereupon, Riquelme remains in agreement with Wilde and attempts to persuade scholars and readers of the journal that elements of aestheticism exist within the Gothic and vice versa. Riquelme also implies that there are lessons taught and learned through the darkness in beauty and in life. This rhetorical analysis focuses on how the author utilizes the rhetorical appeal ethos

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    to make Antigua a tremendous tourist/vacation spot. While Kincaid makes a strong argument, her argument suggests that she doesn't realize what tourism is for the tourists. In other words, tourism is an escape for those who are going on vacation and the tourists are well within their rights to be “ignorant”, especially because no one is telling them what is wrong with Antigua. The biggest aspect of Kincaid's argument that makes it flawed is her anger. That is not to say that there aren't times where

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    the masses, according to Russell. She describes her view on modeling, and how it essentially made her feel like a hard shell of a person with no inner value. She ended by encouraging people to find a balance between outward appearance and inner beauty. “Looks Aren 't Everything…. Believe Me, I 'm a Model” is categorized as TED talk. These “talks” are powered by nonprofit organizations dedicated to spreading ideas, in the form of speeches, demonstrations, and videos. Richard Saul Wormac, describes

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