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FOA "An Image a Little Too Carefully Coordinated"
Rebekah Wagner
January 2019
How does Givhan use the Roberts family in her article, "An Image a Little Too Carefully Coordinated," to convey that people, specifically through their appearances, should present themselves in an appropriate manner?
Topic
Robin Givhan
Author
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Summary:
- John Roberts and his family were present at the white house, as President Bush announced him as his choice for the next associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Summary
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Outline
How does Givhan portray the Roberts family?
How is this same issue prevalent in American society today?
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"An Image a Little Too Carefully Coordinated" by Robin Givhan
Evidence
Diction
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Diction
"It was hard not to marvel at the 1950s-style tableau vivant that was John Roberts and his family" (Givhan 1).
Analogy
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Analogy
"His wife and children stood before the cameras, groomed and glossy in pastel hues --like a trio of Easter eggs, a handful of Jelly Bellies, three little Necco wafers" (Givhan 1).
Diction
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Diction
"Separate the child from the clothes... These clothes are Old World, old money and a cut above the light-up/shoe-buying hoi polloi" (Givhan 2).
Syntax
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Syntax
"The usual advice is to dress appropriately. In this case, an addendum would have been helpful: Please select all attire from the commonly accepted styles of this century" (Givhan 2).
American society today
How is this expectation to "dress appropriately" played out in American society?
Disney Princesses
Disney
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Lena Dunham
Celebrity
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Melania Trump
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Works Cited
Works Cited
Amatulli, Jenna. “Melania Trump Wears Jacket With 'I Really Don't Care' On It To Visit
Immigrant Children.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 21 June 2018, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-wears-jacket-with-i-really-dont-care-on-it-to-visit-immigrant-children_us_5b2bebe7e4b0321a01cf2d38.
“An Image a Little Too Carefully Coordinated.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 22 July
2005, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102347.html.
Feldman, Jamie. “Manolo Blahnik Has Thoughts On Those Heels Melania Trump Wore To
Houston.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 19 Sept. 2017, www.huffpost.com/entry/melania-high-heels_n_59c11826e4b0f22c4a8c7c85.
Peng, Chelsea. “10 Times Celebrities Had to Defend Their Fashion Choices.” Marie Claire,
Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2017, www.marieclaire.com/fashion/news/g3715/celebrities-defend-fashion/?slide=8.
Schwartzel, Erich. “Beauty and the Backlash: Disney's Modern Princess Problem.” The Wall
Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 17 Nov. 2018, www.wsj.com/articles/beauty-and-the-backlash-disneys-modern-princess-problem-1542430801.
Wray, Adam. “REDEF ORIGINAL: No Favored Frocks: Chatting With Fashion Critic Robin
Givhan.” REDEF, redef.com/original/no-favored-frocks-chatting-with-fashion-critic-robin-givhan.