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Rhetorical Analysis On Ted Talk

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Rhetorical Analysis
Author: Cameron Russell on TED talks which was published on YouTube by TED on 16th Jan, 2013.
Cameron Russell is a very famous model and she did a talk on TED talk and her topic was ‘Looks aren’t everything. Believe me I’m a model’. Audience who attended this talk comprised of people from different age groups including men and women both but in actual the target audience were the young girls who are do not feel good about their bodies and want to get perfect bodies for becoming a model. The main purpose for her talk was to reveal the real world inside the shell of glamour and lust. It took her quite a long time to find the courage to take herself out of the dirty world of show business and her mission is to make the world understand that beauty is about brains and not about looks and in this talk her subject was that looks are not everything and when this statement is made by a top model then it really means that its true.
Being a model choosing this topic comes as a shock for the audience because when they see Cameron Russell on stage either they are expecting her to walk like she does on the ramp or to share her beauty secrets but that’s not the case. She uses rhetoric strategy oxymoron and she is contradicting what she first believed in or what she does because we expect a model to say that yes looks are …show more content…

All her pictures were retouched which made her look like a perfect figured model with no innocence left but her real life pictures were natural and showed the real side of Cameron (Russel 00:05:55-00:06:09). She openly said that the pictures are a complete paradox to what she looked and felt like in real life. The pictures were just a construction of a model by expert stylists, designers, and make artists but not who Cameron Russell truly is. And so she proves her point that image may be powerful but superficial

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