Amy Cuddy's Essay Your Iphone Is Ruining Your Posture

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In a five- or six-paragraph essay, analyze the evidence used by
Amy Cuddy's editorial "Your iPhone is Ruining Your Posture - and Your Mood"
Jane E. Brody's editorial "Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind"
Glenn E. Weisfeld and Jody M. Beresford's research paper "Erectness of Posture as an Indicator of Dominance or Success in Humans"
Evaluate which makes the most credible argument. Explain your choice.
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My opinion on what Amy Cuddy's Ted , Jane E. Brody's , and Glenn E. Weisfeld and Jody M. Beresford's are trying to get across is posture and how it can affect you and what causes it. As i was reading all articles i can confirm that if i had to choose the article that i feel made the best credible argument using logos, ethos, and pathos would be Amy Cuddy's editorial “Your iphone is ruining your posture- and your mood”. All articles had great examples of what the purpose of the article was based on but not all of them
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Brody's editorial “Posture affects standing, and not just the physical kind”reading his article he he used a connection with this wife who wrote to him about her husband sitting in front of a computer and noticed he has bad posture, she wrote to Brody because she said that her husband reads his article. Brody replied stating “Poor posture can have ill effects that radiate throughout the body, causing back and neck pain, muscle fatigue, breathing limitations, arthritic joints, digestive problems and mood disturbances. He gave an example which was that he bought a car and when looking for that car he tested out the seating and how well his back and neck were supported in that car and was gonna base his decision on that. Reading his article he did use logos and pathos because he gave a personal example on his choice of car and also really connected to what the wife was asking to tell her husband, but i don't think he had a lot of facts so he didn't use ethos

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