Kate Murphy's Argument Analysis

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Kate Murphy supports Christine Rosen’s argument on the fact that people manipulate a photo to support the view that they want to be displayed. The author says,“With body-slimming, skin-smoothing and age-defying filters and apps, people can make themselves look better than their true selves”(Murphy). People can be so unhappy with themselves that they are willing to go buy these apps or even go to the extreme by getting plastic surgery, just show the world a version of them that won’t be the truth. This helps enrich Rosen’s point because it shows that people are willing to change not only themselves, but the people they love with photoshop because they are so obsessed with how one should look, that we stop caring about the consequences. We don’t

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