Reading the articles on Commonplace has made me a little intimidated. I feel the articles I have read are extremely researched and give many statistics which makes me feel like the topic I would want to choose would not fit under the criteria of a Commonplace paper.
Anyways, out of the two articles I could write about, I chose the article, Comfort Food by Morgan Glaze. I thought this article was more interesting than my other choice because it had information that I knew about already. It basically explains that you should be happy with your body and if you do make choices to change it, then you should only do it for yourself. It talks a lot about plastic surgery and brings up Heidi Montag from The Hills. The author states at the end that she wasn’t arguing that people shouldn’t have plastic surgery but that people shouldn’t change for others. When I read the article I thought they were arguing that people should not get plastic surgery so that was a bit confusing.
I really liked the information she used though. It was mentioned that there are plenty of students at The Ohio State University who have had boob jobs and other surgeries. I couldn’t believe that. Then the author said that teenagers between the ages of 13 and 19 had undergone “more than 90,000 plastic surgery procedures in 2006.” I didn’t know people that young go would go through those surgeries. Then again, when I think about it, 13 years old is pretty young so maybe these kids are even influenced by their parents.
It was a well-written and interesting article.
http://www.mhlearningsolutions.com/commonplace/index.php?q=node/5648
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