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    A Closer Look at Date Rape

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    for this,” states Camille Paglia in her essay “Rape: A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know.” The “them” in Paglia’s statement is referring to women, and she is discussing the topic of date rape. Susan Jacoby, on the other hand, writes in her article “Common Decency,” that feminism is not responsible for the rising cases of date rape, but that it is the men who are at fault. Paglia’s argument is insightful and accurate, but Jacoby’s writing is flawed and not well-researched. Paglia includes all rhetorical

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    Alcohol And Teenagers

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    due to this there is a small amount of teenagers that drink. According to Paglia Camille, “Learning how to drink responsibly is a basic lesson in growing up as it is in wine-drinking France or in Germany, with its family-oriented beer gardens and festivals.” (http://search.ebscohost.com). By teaching teenagers to drink in a safe environment when they are drinking they will be responsible about

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    In “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery,” by Camille Paglia, she argues that American surgeons are being too narrow minded with their work because they use the same models as a representation of what their clients can look like. She suggests that getting plastic surgery has become such a normal thing in America and that society pushes women to get work done in order to get that “perfect” look. Paglia also points out that plastic surgery has “leveled the playing field” with wives and their husbands mistresses

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    State of Florida, date rape can be defined as “forced sexual content during a voluntary social engagement.” Camille Paglia wrote “Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminist Know,” to focus on the dangers of date rape from a feminist’s standpoint. In response to Paglia’s work, Susan Jacoby wrote “Common Decency,” this text was written as an attempt to break down Paglia’s argument. Although Paglia does present some logical fallacies throughout her text, she displays a more effective argument than Jacoby because

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    Then maybe the mirror stops tormenting you”(Tandy). In her 2005 essay “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery,” Camille Paglia condemns the “routine” plastic surgery middle-aged women receive in order to fit society’s youthful mold. Even though she acknowledges the artfulness that can go into the cosmetic surgery, Paglia despises the “generic cookie cutter sameness.” With the advancement in the medical technology and the accessibility of treatments like Botox, the

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    On Date Rape Summary

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    of readers who have other views. Date rape is difficult to discuss because coming to a conclusion without much explanation is bound to make some readers upset. The first two fallacies are in the first two paragraphs, being hasty generalizations. Paglia assumes that women in the 1960s understood that there were dangers that came with freedom. The example given was that when the author wanted to “stay at a male friend’s

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    The legal drinking age was determined by Congress over 30 years ago but it has been a battle that many have fought against. Researching for why the law was created in the first place and how they have managed to keep it at twenty-one has led me into a new way of thinking in relation to what the legal age should be. When I originally chose the topic I knew I thought the legal age should be eighteen. I had all of the reasoning’s and information to support my claim and knew there were numerous others

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    Supporting the same argument, Hymowitz discusses how history is destroyed by the images posted in the mass media websites. Rosen quotes Camille Paglia on one of her observations of her students “young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them” (10). Paglia says that “young people” are destructed by the images and their future becomes indefinite. In the past, children used to inherit

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    it is impossible to meet beauty standard. People bombarded by images of men and women who are thin, beautiful, and youthful. This norm is slowly taking away an individual’s freedom of self-expression and consequently lose sense of self-worth. Camille Paglia, an academic and social critic who earned her PhD at Yale University, uses her artistic sensibility to argue that the current trend of plastic surgery leads to ethical issues, such as narcissism, sexism, and racism in “The Pitfall of Plastic Surgery”

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    In her critical essay “Moby-Dick as Sexual Protest”, feminist Camille Paglia argues that Melville suppresses feminine attributes contending with masculine dominance. She states that Melville repeatedly “elevates the masculine principle above the feminine, driving back and limiting female power” (Paglia 697). Even though Moby Dick has a noticeable lack of women (Mrs. Hussey and Aunt Charity being the only named females), the value of femininity is not ignored, nor restricted. Rather than glorifying

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