Showgirls have been the face of Las Vegas for a long time, but has been slowly dying throughout the years. In Jack Sheehan column “To Honor Las Vegas, Respect the Showgirl,” published on April 21st, 2013, in the Review-Journal, he explains why he thinks the face of the iconic showgirl is dying in Las Vegas. Sheehan, who has lived in Las Vegas for about four decades, wrote an opinionated piece, that needed more supporting facts. “To Honor Las Vegas, Respect the Showgirl,” was structured well, but was not very convincing because he did not give any reasons why the showgirl legacy was diminishing. It is also written from a male perspective because most females do not want to be seen as just a male fantasy. Sheehan is a talented writer, who is a horrible debater.
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He does this to stray away from the entire piece being viewed as his own opinion, but this can cause someone to believe something that is possible not true. The author also states, “For nothing screams ‘Las Vegas’ louder than an impossibly tall and elegant beauty draped in every color of the spectrum, peering us from her Mayan headdress and suggesting that she can take ordinary Joe away from all his troubles.” Las Vegas still has these unrealistic conceptions, but in different ways than the show girls Sheehan was used to. Strippers and hookers still hold that reputation than any man can have a beautiful woman, although they do not wear the flashy clothes the showgirls wear. Sheehan uses his word choice to try to persuade the audience that the face of a showgirl no longer apart Las Vegas, but in doing so he causes more contradictions with his lack of credibility and under acknowledgement of todays’
He does this to stray away from the entire piece being viewed as his own opinion, but this can cause someone to believe something that is possible not true. The author also states, “For nothing screams ‘Las Vegas’ louder than an impossibly tall and elegant beauty draped in every color of the spectrum, peering us from her Mayan headdress and suggesting that she can take ordinary Joe away from all his troubles.” Las Vegas still has these unrealistic conceptions, but in different ways than the show girls Sheehan was used to. Strippers and hookers still hold that reputation than any man can have a beautiful woman, although they do not wear the flashy clothes the showgirls wear. Sheehan uses his word choice to try to persuade the audience that the face of a showgirl no longer apart Las Vegas, but in doing so he causes more contradictions with his lack of credibility and under acknowledgement of todays’