Russell 's TED Talk About Real Value and Modeling Essay

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“Looks Aren’t Everything”The speech by Russell has a very persuasive thesis because it begins with this beautiful model telling the audience that looks are not everything and that the audience should believe her because she, after all, is a model and knows what she is talking about. Everyone in the audience is probably thinking how great it would be to look like a model, but Russell explains that when you’re a model you are insecure all the time and you aren’t able to be taken seriously in any other line of work. So she challenges the audience to look beyond “looks” and she does this by giving a sense of the reality of what it is like to be a model and how what is captured and air-brushed on the screen is a false image—it is not reality or a real reflection of the person who is modeling.The speech is organized thematically. It revolved around questions Russell is usually asked about what it is like to be a model while dancing in between “confessions” about modeling—how phony it is, how insecure models can be, and how won gets to be a model.

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…ultimately it kind of feels somewhat shallow: she is not telling us anything new or taking it very deep. While it is refreshing to hear a famous person, celebrity or model “come clean” about the realities of life behind the scenes, it is not really an earth-shattering revelation. I found myself wondering what her point was at the end of it. Was it just a way for her to feel “real” for a moment, away from the runway? Not that I minded, but even though I felt that she made her point well, I couldn’t help wondering by the end what….....

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