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    that "girls choosing the fairy-tale ending is not such a bad thing" (667). However Peggy Orenstein, a contributing writer for The New York Times, would completely disagree with that statement. Orenstein stresses in her article Cinderella and Princess Culture that the "princess craze" and "girlie-girl" culture is ruining young girls as they feel constantly pressured to be perfect (673). Poniewozik and Orenstein have conflicting claims in their articles as both define

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    to connect with our loves one far from us, but Peggy Orenstein in The Internet and Social Media: Their Impact on Our Lives does not agree. She uses in today's society, (Logos, Ethos, and Pathos) social media and the internet can and would overpower our lives. Social media is being used today by Adults, Teens now even Children. Peggy Orenstein “Each twitter post seemed a tacit referendum on who I am, or at least who I believe myself to be” (Orenstein, 381). She does a wonderful job explaining the

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    media. It’s where people get the chance to post whatever they want. When you tweet, what are you tweeting for? The author Peggy Orenstein wrote the article, “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” in the New York Times Magazine to claim that people tweet for themselves because social media is important to them. It describes how people care about their own posts on twitter. Peggy Orenstein uses examples and creates an appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos to convince people that social media is important to us. She

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    in Peggy Orenstein’s article “What’s Wrong with Cinderella?” the author addresses the many different consequences of Disney’s lucrative marketing strategy. The heavy influence of everything princess down to the choice of clothing can have a negative or positive impact on young girl’s minds, while stimulating innocence and purity can also encourage body image issues

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    “Fear of Fatness,” Peggy Orenstein uses personal experience and repetitive descriptive language about beauty standards gained from the media versus natural beauty to argue that parents should be the ones to help boost their children’s self-esteem toward their natural beauty instead of media-based beauty. Orenstein faces the problem that young girls, along with their mothers, are afraid of the girls not fitting into the beauty standards put upon them. In her article, Peggy Orenstein touches on how

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    Disney princesses are important characters to many children in today’s society, especially to young girls. In Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Peggy Orenstein discusses the effect that these princesses can have on young girls. She considers the idea that princess culture might be hurting today’s girls. However, the book does not only focus on Disney, it focuses on the health, development, and future of young girls in today’s society. It also brings attention to the effects that nature versus nurture have

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    Cinderella?” Peggy Orenstein argues that it has come to a point where the craze for princesses has corrupted the minds of the young girls everywhere, and how it may be teaching them self-worth it has also led groups of girls to believe that they can lead the same lives as these fictional princess characters that sing to creatures and have magical powers. Also, to make matters worse companies like Disney keep feeding into this hidden epidemic of. “What’s Wrong With Cinderella?” by Peggy Orenstein starts

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    two authors, James Poniewozik and Peggy Orenstein. Poniewozik, a media and television critic for Time magazine, wrote an article entitled “The Princess Paradox” where he discusses this evolution of expectations. As well as him, Orenstein, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, wrote an article with the title of “Cinderella and Princess Culture” where she also discusses the development of the expectations on girls. Even though Poniewozik and Orenstein discuss the evolution of expectations

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    Panopticism is a social theory named after the Panopticon, according to Foucault, his describes a watch tower in a prison and he thinks Panopticism is how people act different when they’re being watched. Rayner perspective on Panopticism is how we can use social media to our advantage. In this essay, I will analyze both Foucault and Rayner perspective on Panopticism and will determine the rhetorical appeals of both writings. This is an example of ethos because “Generally speaking, it might be

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    how you read the rest of “What’s Wrong With Cinderella”. For instance, in “What’s Wrong With Cinderella,” one personal story that Orenstein tells her audience is when she went to the dentist with her three-year-old daughter. The dentist told her daughter if she would “sit in a special princess throne”. This made Peggy irritated and snapped at the dentist. Peggy was irritated because the dentist was trying to persuade her little girl by making her feel like a princess. Adults keep manipulating

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