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Summary Of The Death Of Pretty By Pat Archbolds
In Pat Archbolds article “The Death of Pretty” he argues that women are no long how they used to be and that men want the girls so act and dress a certain way. I believe that Archbolds writes this article in a socially conservative bias. Archbold to me sounds to me like he is an old-fashioned person by the way he writes this article. Archbold can be seen as an old-fashioned person when he says, “Young women today do not seem to aspire to pretty, they prefer to be regarded as hot.” This explains that he is talking from experience as if he has experienced a different type of women is his younger days, and it seems that he is a little resistant to the change that is now happen in today’s society. The author also shows he is not used to these

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