Proposal By Barbara Greenberg Summary

Everyone knows that Prom is a significant event for teens in high school. Teenagers would spend hours and hours to look for their's perfect dress, shoes, and hairdos for prom. The most important part thing that every teen is worry about is looking for a prom date. This lead to this uprising of "promposal", which teens would elaborate with their friends, teachers, and even their parent to make a public proposal to invite someone to prom. However, is promposal actually a good thing to be highly motivated? Both writers had debated over promposal and both have a high contrast about their value beliefs about this topic.

First of all, Barbara Greenberg, author of Promposals: AMEN! believe that promposal is a positive thing that should be highly encouraged among teens. Since promposal demands a unique and great effort to perform, this enables the student to expand their creativity and experience the collaboration of teamwork. She

She sees that promposal may not be as beneficial as we have thought. For her, promposal is basically an "emotional blackmail." She believes promposal can lead to social pressure onto another person and make them feel obligated to go with their date for prom. "As one teen put it: "Turning him down marks her as a 'huge bitch,' a label she doesn't deserve in any way." Faircloth indicates that due to social pressure, it makes it challenging for a girl to reject a guy even if she has no interest in going. Promposal not only causes social pressure but, also oppresses one's ability to say no. Nevertheless, Faircloth opposes to Greensburg's views that promposal should be "big". Not all promposal should be public, nor fancy.

To conclude, both authors have different aspects of the topic "Promposal". Even though, both authors had different views about promposal. They both indicate a similar issue about