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Write a response paper based on an assigned reading and writing prompt. Your response paper must be 500 words and in MLA format (see attached link MLA formatting and documentation guidelines: https://daytonastate.edu/cwc/
The introduction of your response should contain the name of the work being summarized, the author, and the general situation surrounding the text to help contextualize what will follow.The body of your response should make a claim about an aspect of the text that you find interesting and worthy of discussion. Additionally, the body of your response must include support for your claims in the form quotations. Follow closely the work you are responding to and cite an occasional word, phrase, or passage from the text to give your reader a taste of the author’s argument. Your response should begin to draw conclusions, possibly explaining how your understanding of the text is important in a broader context. YOU should ONLY reference the assigned text to support their claims.
Assigned Prompt:
Read “A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?” by Susan Sontag: A Woman’s Beauty by Sontag.pdf
Consider the extent to which you agree or disagree with Sontag regarding what she says about the plight of contemporary women with respect to beauty. To what extent are men responsible for women’s obsession with beauty? To what extent are women themselves responsible? Explain your position and support your position with evidence from Sontag’s text ONLY.
Answer preview
Women’s Responsibility for An Obsession with Beauty
Women also share some blame when it comes to their obsession with beauty. Women are their distractors, and instead of lifting each other, they are always putting down each other (Sontag 3). They see each other as competitors rather than comrades, which pushes them to start unnecessarily attacking each other. Women have to fight other women to attain excellence continuously. A woman will bring a fellow woman down just to take up the position the other woman occupies. Unlike men, they do not celebrate other women’s accomplishments. Instead, they feel jealous and plot how to knock them off their patches.
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