Analysis Of Ipod And Dirty Underwear By James Rosen

Jiacheng Xu

English 3003

Mar 15th, 2018

Of iPods and dirty underwear

The advancement of technology has made music lovers to collect music and make them the way they love the music to appear. In the article of iPod and dirty underwear written by James Rosen explains the selection process for iPod songs. John uses an admirable and sarcasm to ask a rhetorical question about songs and genres found in any person's iPod. According to Rosen, the song collections found in peoples iPod is to impress other people rather than satisfying one's personal interest (Rosen, 60). Rosen usage both appropriate language and sources in his article and he can convince most people by use of his personal experience. His agenda address the gradual changing society. The use of hyperbole of Rosen iPod as his close companion and this had increased the popularity of iPod. These iPod described has about 43300 songs and can play for 40 days consecutively without repeating any song.

Music and Morality

Plato is known for proposing the model of a character in music. According to Plato's theory, some modes of music are allowed while others are denied depending on the character each mode portray. The idea of imitation is applied by Plato to enhance understanding of his proposed theory. The use of mimesis shows the way the character in the music affects the character of the music lovers. Plato suggests that music can be judged in terms of morality the way people judge one another. Plato based his arguments on modes rather than performance and individual works of