Read The Truth about Beauty and analyze it as a definition essay. 250 word blog post. How does she define the word? What claim is she making? What examples does she use to back it up? Is she right? Explain.
The author is defining the word "Beautiful" as Dove does: That it is in everyone, people just need to recognize it. “Every girl deserves to feel good about herself and see how beautiful she really is.” But in addition to this, she claims that most women don't describe themselves as beautifulfor the same reason smart people don't describe themselves as geniuses: they don' feel they qualify. The author uses dove's campaign for the "regular woman" to back her claim. Dove made advertisements that stressed the unrealistic beauty of billboard models. They did this by showing how an "average" woman cbecoemes billboard flawless through touch-ups and heavy make-up. but, she also uses an example of a woman philosopher who would pay any amount of money to gain 15 points to her already above average IQ, not for plastic surgery or hair dye. This example showed now that the woman thought of herself as flawed, jsut that she wihed she had more. I do think she's right. I know very few girls who would consider themselves beautiful, whether out of low self-esteem or humbleness.
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