1. The arguement in the first article is that action figures have gorwn over time. The article first begins to discusses how most males in college are dissatisfied with the way they look externally. They wish that they were looked a certain way that would increase there self esteem. The article later discusses how action have grown over time. It is obvious that through time, action figures have grown over time. When action figures first started to come out in the early 60's, there wasnt any definition on the plastic figures. As time went on, the figures began to become more and more defined. With this, the actual male human body began to become more and more muscular. The arguement in the second article is that action figures have influeced young males to want to become as muscular as the action figures are. The article discusses how young males want to look the way the muscular and defined action figures look by any means. If this means the uses of steroids than so be it. The artlice discusses how the use of steriods and wanting to look like the athletes we see on tv is starting to destroy society little by little.

2. The tone in article one presents the authors arguement very well. In the article, it expresses every little bit of the point its trying to get across. The article gives actuals facts of the how the measurements of the toys have expanded over time. The audience for this article is persuaded to the young adult males. In article 2, the tone from the authors arguement seems kind of humorous. The article gives a sense of how even though action figures are just toys, the immulate figures that we want to be like. An example of the humor is when he talks about the action figures being just toys. " They are toys. We all know that. Thats why we stop playing with them before we get out of grade school. We'll, most of us, anyway." The audience the author is relating this to is the young males.

3.My feelings towards theses articles were that they are true and that actio figures did have an effect on me. Growing up on action figures like Batman and Hercules, it gave me a sense of wanting to be more masculine and bigger than I was. The media also influenced my vision of become very muscular and defined. Watching the my favorite athletes on tv everyday that had the features that I wanted influenced me to hit the gym every harder than I had before.