I selected an article from Wetpaint.com (an entertainment news site) that a friend of mine posted to Facebook through the Washington Post Social Reader. It is centered on the recent weight loss of Nicole Polizzi (Snooki) from Jersey Shore. Snooki is known on the Jersey Shore as being the heaviest girl and was frequently lambasted in online and television entertainment media and by her castmates for her weight. Now that she has reached her goal of 98 pounds, she is being criticized for losing too much weight. This article implies that the praise she has been receiving for her weight loss has encouraged her to go to unhealthy extremes.
Read the article linked below and use one of the Blog Project approaches from the assignment sheet to rhetorically analyze this short article.
