This is significant to the article because it explains Stones point of view. Stone has knowledge about technology like most boomers, but she does not have the skills that millennials would. Stone has vastly different morals than her students because she's a baby boomer and was was born in a different time thusly affecting her ethics. Considering Stone was born in a different time this impacts how she writes and thinks. Although, Copeland explains how women are mainly affected by the devastation of social media. (543) She also explains how women see social media as a competition, and how females try to exploit the finest parts of life through a phone screen. (543) Copeland singles out women in her piece and uses it to her advantage. Copeland uses ethos in a different way than Stone by showing ethics in an empowering way. Copeland also uses women as an example thusly making the reader feel pity because women are on the …show more content…
Even though Stone uses an example about her age to define her ethics, Copeland expands on women's rights to enhance the rhetorical element ethos. Like ethos, Stone uses logos in an acceptable manner by using Sigmund Freud’s book, but Copeland uses an abundance of sources such as Alex Jordan, (a PH.D.) who utilizes Montesquieu(a French philosopher) forcing Copeland’s article to be more superior than Stone’s. Stone uses Freud’s book in her article to enhance her credibility. Stone examines other individual’s thoughts and coordinates them with her own, an example of this could be when they talk about how Casey’s friends are still posting on her wall many months later, Stone then contradicts their thoughts by using a creditable source (Freud’s Book, Mourning and