A review of Devastation Of Beauty by Teal Prefeire
Teal Pfeifer majored in English wrote this essay at Stanford University during her sophomore year.
The essay "Devastating Beauty" by Teal Pfeifer is written to describe the fascination of young and older women to accomplish a perfect body-image that is eventually unachievable. When we are asked to define beauty or think of it or define it, we often make a statement that beauty is in the “eyes of the beholder” but for many others it is the observation of the outside layer of our physical beings. People generally oversee to emphasis on the inside layer or character and personality of one another when all we concentrate is on is how people look like. We are persistently observing advertisements as well as TV commercials that illustrate models being tall, lean and picture perfect and most females believe that is how they should look. She drives on to designate the role the mass media plays through advertisements to promote thin models making the American people passionate with their weight to such a level that they go through various diet plans and in severe cases suffer from anorexia and bulimia to name a few. She backs her opinions through numerical proofs taken from diverse researches and magazines. She concludes her essay by strengthening the seriousness of the problem and proposes answers to solve the problem. To understand and study the essay according to Aristotle’s rhetorical strategies for affect argumentation it would be paramount to concisely describe the strategies. Every strategy must be appealing to logic: Aristotle defines it as a plea to reason or using logic to make an argument. It must be appealing to emotions: Pathos encompasses the call to emotion or the aptitude to persuade people by making them feel something. Establishing credibility: Ethos refers to a writer’s or speaker's reliability. Discussion in order to support her chosen arguments Pfeifer utilizes a various rhetorical strategies. She captures the attention of her readers by introducing
The essay "Devastating Beauty" by Teal Pfeifer is written to describe the fascination of young and older women to accomplish a perfect body-image that is eventually unachievable. When we are asked to define beauty or think of it or define it, we often make a statement that beauty is in the “eyes of the beholder” but for many others it is the observation of the outside layer of our physical beings. People generally oversee to emphasis on the inside layer or character and personality of one another when all we concentrate is on is how people look like. We are persistently observing advertisements as well as TV commercials that illustrate models being tall, lean and picture perfect and most females believe that is how they should look. She drives on to designate the role the mass media plays through advertisements to promote thin models making the American people passionate with their weight to such a level that they go through various diet plans and in severe cases suffer from anorexia and bulimia to name a few. She backs her opinions through numerical proofs taken from diverse researches and magazines. She concludes her essay by strengthening the seriousness of the problem and proposes answers to solve the problem. To understand and study the essay according to Aristotle’s rhetorical strategies for affect argumentation it would be paramount to concisely describe the strategies. Every strategy must be appealing to logic: Aristotle defines it as a plea to reason or using logic to make an argument. It must be appealing to emotions: Pathos encompasses the call to emotion or the aptitude to persuade people by making them feel something. Establishing credibility: Ethos refers to a writer’s or speaker's reliability. Discussion in order to support her chosen arguments Pfeifer utilizes a various rhetorical strategies. She captures the attention of her readers by introducing