The surgery changed from reconstructive surgery to cosmetic and plastic surgery (Shauf). The early twenty-first century was spent in a recession, even in that time era the rate for plastic surgery was still up (Shauf). People spent less on housing, food, entertainment, and clothing, while the rates for liposuction, eye lid surgery, butt lifts, and breast augmentation increased (Shauf). Even though the American people spent less on food, clothes, and entertainment they still seemed to have money for beauty …show more content…
Her thesis made sense and went along with the whole paper and all of the main points. The facts that she includes are relevant to the article along with staying in focus and on topic. She made good use with pathos, in the sense where she uses the good that plastic surgery does for the soldiers with injuries when they come home. It appeals to the general public’s emotions to how they are thankful for all the freedom we receive due to them fighting. It brings the readers emotional state to feel good about what plastic surgery is doing. And lastly she made good use of the ethos, she gave a bibliography at the end of her article. That was her letting the reader know that she got her information from several different sources and it wasn’t all her own thoughts. She maintains a reasonable position as well throughout the paper, as in she never over qualified herself on a topic. Shauf didn’t qualify herself to talk about the topic in a detailed medical sense because she wasn’t qualified nor did she have enough knowledge on the