Rhetorical Analysis Paper At your petition, I have read and reviewed the article “Never Just Pictures” by Susan Bordo, to consider whether it would be fit to use it in The Shorthorn or not. After much thought and analysis I strongly suggest that it should be published in the The Shorthorn. Although the article is outdated and a bit rusty, it is still extremely relevant to the The Shorthorn audience. The author gives firm evidences by using the three rhetorical appeals, logos, ethos, and pathos. Finally, the article is not endlessly lengthy, so it won’t take much time from the student’s and professors’ busy schedules. The author emphasizes that our conception of beauty is solely based on how thin or thick you are and how the media is the
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The first appeal, she uses is emotional when she argues the media has infected people’s minds with the concept “that Fat is the devil, and we are continually beating him--"eliminating" our stomachs, "busting" our thighs, "taming" our tummies--pummeling and purging our bodies, attempting to make them into something other than flesh”(1). Bordo successfully uses logical appeals throughout the paper. She talks about the history, quotes other credible authors, and gives reliable facts. For example, when she discusses her disgust towards the skeletal looking models that cause people to start developing these anxieties and eating disorders, she quotes the Ex-anorexic Stephanie Grant when she said "If I had to say my anorexia was about any single thing, I would have said it was about living without desire. Without longing of any kind."(2). Susan Brodo is an English and women’s studies professor at the university of Kentucky. Not only that, but also “She is Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities” (1), and her book, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. All these achievements and positions, give her extreme …show more content…
The article is only three pages, so it is not endlessly long so it does not require that much time from students and professors busy schedules. What’s great about this specific piece is that just by reading the introduction, the reader will be hooked. From the very first sentence, “you look, the more everybody thinks you're fabulous” (1), one might wonder what this article is about. Is it for or against media precipitation? Then the reader will long to know more. She also references an actress from the first paragraph so that attracts the attention of the reader. Readers may not read it completely and just skim through it and still get the whole message behind it. Even by just reading the conclusion, UTA students will get the idea of the whole article because of how powerful it is. It almost leaves you furious with what the media has poisoned young people’s minds with by making them uncomfortable with their own body. Dr. Susan states “a lean body - still matter enormously in these ads, and we are still being told how to be in the mode which best serves Calvin Klein” (3). She also leaves all the ladies questioning the makeup and hair industries and how they “continue to promote their own self-serving aesthetics of facial perfection” (3). So students can get the message that this article was trying to convey, which is that every Body is beautiful and that we shouldn’t let the
The first appeal, she uses is emotional when she argues the media has infected people’s minds with the concept “that Fat is the devil, and we are continually beating him--"eliminating" our stomachs, "busting" our thighs, "taming" our tummies--pummeling and purging our bodies, attempting to make them into something other than flesh”(1). Bordo successfully uses logical appeals throughout the paper. She talks about the history, quotes other credible authors, and gives reliable facts. For example, when she discusses her disgust towards the skeletal looking models that cause people to start developing these anxieties and eating disorders, she quotes the Ex-anorexic Stephanie Grant when she said "If I had to say my anorexia was about any single thing, I would have said it was about living without desire. Without longing of any kind."(2). Susan Brodo is an English and women’s studies professor at the university of Kentucky. Not only that, but also “She is Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities” (1), and her book, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. All these achievements and positions, give her extreme …show more content…
The article is only three pages, so it is not endlessly long so it does not require that much time from students and professors busy schedules. What’s great about this specific piece is that just by reading the introduction, the reader will be hooked. From the very first sentence, “you look, the more everybody thinks you're fabulous” (1), one might wonder what this article is about. Is it for or against media precipitation? Then the reader will long to know more. She also references an actress from the first paragraph so that attracts the attention of the reader. Readers may not read it completely and just skim through it and still get the whole message behind it. Even by just reading the conclusion, UTA students will get the idea of the whole article because of how powerful it is. It almost leaves you furious with what the media has poisoned young people’s minds with by making them uncomfortable with their own body. Dr. Susan states “a lean body - still matter enormously in these ads, and we are still being told how to be in the mode which best serves Calvin Klein” (3). She also leaves all the ladies questioning the makeup and hair industries and how they “continue to promote their own self-serving aesthetics of facial perfection” (3). So students can get the message that this article was trying to convey, which is that every Body is beautiful and that we shouldn’t let the