Task
"The Real Cost of Posh's Locks" Article
Your task is to write two (2) letters to the editor of The Courier Mail in response to this article. One letter needs to be in support of the way the paper addressed the issue, while your second letter needs to disagree with the paper's interepretation and representation of the people involved and the issue itself.
"The Real Cost of Posh's Locks" Article
Your task is to write two (2) letters to the editor of The Courier Mail in response to this article. One letter needs to be in support of the way the paper addressed the issue, while your second letter needs to disagree with the paper's interepretation and representation of the people involved and the issue itself.
Letters
Support of the way the paper addressed the issue
St Hilda’s School
52 High Street
SOUTHPORT QLD 4215
23rd of August 2009
PO Box 1456
The courier Mail
22 Harvey Street,
Canberra ACT 2657
Dear Tamarak Kaminsky,
My name is Jaime-Lee Bradford and I am writing to you to support the way you have addressed this issue in the paper. This write up in the paper is a significant piece as it really gets everyone thinking about hair extensions and where they come from. I completely agree with you, now days you see several people walking around with hair extensions clueless, not knowing what people had to go through and sacrifice.
The issue you have addressed in the Courier Mail is very relevant and important. I know that when I first read this article, it got me thinking. The way you got the victims who sacrificed their hair to quote in this article, made the write up ten times stronger. This is evident in the last column of the article when she quotes “When I was younger, I was made to have my own hair cut off at the temple”, Also obvious in the first column “strolled down the street in a push-up bra, with $5000 worth of imported human hair bouncing on her shoulders”. Tamarak I like the way you supported this issue as you looked at both sides, the first side you looked at is the people who wears them side and the second side you looked at is the victim’s side. This article makes people aware about hair extensions and should definitely be re submitted in the Courier Mail.
I hope you will consider re submitting this article and or even writing more articles on hair extensions you, as the editor of this article could go so far and help the world by the way you write. To make people not take hair extensions for granted and to get them to understand you could maybe put other articles about the same topic in, put the article the real cost of Posh’s locks in magazines, books etc and maybe even put the article into action and do an add about it. I am willing to help and support you as the way you addressed this issue is tremendous. This will eliminate and minimize the amount of people who take hair extensions for granted. I could not thank you enough for taking your time to read this letter I am writing to you to support the way you have addressed this issue on the paper..
Yours Faithfully,
Jaime-Lee Bradford
Disagree with the paper's interpretation and representation of the people involved and the issue itself.
St Hilda’s School
52 High Street
SOUTHPORT QLD 4215
23rd of August 2009
PO Box 1456
The courier Mail
22 Harvey Street,
Canberra ACT 2657
Dear Tamarak Kaminsky,
My name is Jaime-Lee Bradford and I am writing to you because I disagree with the papers interpretation and representation of the people involved and the issue itself. Tamarak you have not only put the people who went bald and sacrificed their hair in danger you have put famous celebrities in danger too. I completely disagree with you because people who are involved with hair extensions are happy. The salons are happy, the celebrities are happy and the people who sacrificed their hair are happy. Tamarak you have just made it sound more worse then it actually is.
The papers interpretation and representation of the people involved and the issue itself is terrible. Celebrities should not be talked about in this manner, as you have now turned several people off these important people because you stated them as rich snobs that prance around with $5000 hair extensions in. This is evident when you state “strolled down the street in a push-up bra and with $5000 worth of imported human hair bouncing on her shoulders”. However you also tell the life story of people who sacrificed their hair, which then makes them feel out of place because everyone who reads this article knows that they had to get their head shaved with a dry razor and go to school bald. This is obvious when it she says “It shamed me. I had to go back to school completely bald.” Tamarak you have put both the celebrities and victims in an awkward position as you have misinterpreted and misrepresented the people involved and the issue itself.
Tamarak, hair extensions are completely normal and you are just simply making it seem like everything is a lot worse then it actually is. The salons are happy, which is evident in the article “Top hair salons enjoy the profits… does anyone dare to ask where it comes from, or how much women in poor countries are being paid”. The celebrities are happy because they look hot with the extensions they wear and pay a lot of money for and the people who sacrifice their hair are happy because they get paid for it and can make a living.
I hope you will consider thinking about what you have done and fix it because I disagree with the papers interpretation and representation of the people involved and the issue itself. Hair extensions are apart of life and it does not make anyone sad. I suggest you apologize to the celebrities and victims because you may very well have hurt them. I could not thank you enough for taking your time to read this letter about how I disagree with the papers interpretation and representation of the people involved and the issue itself.
Yours Faithfully,
Jaime-Lee Bradford
