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In the news article by Jane E. Brody about posture "Posture Affects Standing , and Not Just the Physical Kind." she talks about how our lifestyle affects our posture and health as well as the way it makes people perceive us. Amy Cuddy in her news article about the relationship between our phones and posture "Your Phone is Ruining Your Posture And your Mood" she talks about the phones making us take uncomfortable positions and how it might be causing depression in users. Both writers focus on a very similar topic that all of the sudden is closely is an important reason to fear our phones. Even both of them use a heavy amount of evidence, it is Brody being the most credible and being the one having the most convincing argument. To start …show more content…

Then she gives us a big amount of sources that talk about the devices hurting us and our posture. She talks about what the doctors call the iHunch,text neck and iPosture. These seem like a way to make the users feel bad, people have come up with silly names to their condition and make them question themselves about how much more will they keep letting their devices change the way people perceive them. She also tells us that it makes people less assertive and seem like people with a lack of confidence "We found that the size of the device significantly affected whether subjects felt comfortable seeking out the experimenter, suggesting that the slouchy, collapsed position we take using our phones actually makes us less assertive-less likely to stand up for ourselves when the situation calls for it," In this way she keeps trying to raise concern in the subject and uses a counter argument briefly when she tells us about how we really can't get rid of our phones since we rely too much on

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