RR #5 Seelye's Essay

 Katharine Q. Seelye did an impressive job on her essay of Lurid Numbers on Glossy Pages. First of all, it will be extremely beneficial when I write my text and visual analysis, but also because she had a truly intriguing article. This essay was super interesting because it was so true.  People like numbers! A lot! If one magazine has ten ways to make yourself beautiful and another magazine has eleven ways, odds are the majority is itching to know the one way the other magazine does not have. This article reminds me of the movie Thirteen Going on Thirty with Jennifer Garner. In the movie they are all in a meeting that Garner is late for due to the fact that she just found out she was magically thirty, overnight.  In this meeting the boss is extremely upset with them because they have 10 ways on how to do something, while Poise, there rival competitors, have 11. All Americans know that number draw you in but Seelye makes it sound even better with impressive evidence. She also says that beautiful people help sell the magazines. A hot, sexy, ripped man on the cover of Men’s Health will draw the attention of both woman and men, but the women just look, whereas the man is like “Oh, if I do this, this, and this, I’ll look like him? Cool!” It is just the same for women with a pretty woman on a cover of a magazine as well.  Seelye does an amazing job with this essay and she made it really easy to set up a drawing board for my essay.