Although the June 1919 issue of the Ladies’ Home Journalcontained four advertisements
It's crazy how much things changed just from 1919 to 1929 in only ten years.
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Our material civilization has been made possible by it.
Everywhere you look there is advertisements everywhere that effect the why we behave, the way we live and what we buy. I wonder how advertisements have effected mt life?
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Look at our life from any standpoint and you will find our American civilization is built upon the use of things for which advertisers stimulate a desire in us.
I can definitely see how the 1920's were the start of modern consumerism America and the start of the American Dream
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But always this attitude ofours toward advertising is unconscious.
Definitely still true today and a good example of it is in the grocery store. The kids sugary cereal is always conveniently at eye leave and then there is all of the candy, soda and other unhealthy foods conveniently at the checkout line that you can't avoid and will be waiting at.
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The American woman’s relation to American manufacturing is positively startling to foreigneyes
This still has some truth to it today. In places like Nicaragua they a third of what we have here but yet they are a whole lot happier.
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We are urged deliberately to waste material.
We have become very wasteful. People get rid of things that are perfectly fine simply because it isn't the latest newest thing.
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“People don’t think anything nowadays of borrowing sums they’d never have thought of borrowing in the old days
This is part of the reason the stock market crashed. This is also why you only need one credit card.
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The problem before us today is not how to produce the goods, but how to produce the customers.
Very true and still true today. I have seen many commercials and advertisements that have convinced me i needed some product I have no use for.
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ackstraws;
a game played with a heap of small rods, in which players try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others.
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“The American citizen has more comforts and conveniences than kings had two hundred years ago.”
I wonder what he would think about today's world?
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Today practically every national organization in the United States—religious, social, industrial, economic, and political—has incorporated an Americanizationdepartment in its sphere of activities
The author thinks a lot of countries are now Americianized, so the American believes are successful.
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School children are still taught the fundamentals of constitutional democracy. As long as this is so, we are far from danger of revolution
This statement argues against any danger of a revolution.
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internationalize
means the process of planning and implementing products and services so they can easily be adapted to a specific local languages and cultures
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Our national life is disturbed because of the high cost of living, industrial unrest, and political conflict.
This statement talks the real reason the author thinks America is in trouble.
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dealism
characterized by idealism, unrealistically aiming for perfection
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Littleness, meanness, falsehood, extreme partisanship: these are not in accord with the American spirit.
This statement explains what the author thinks that does not describes American values.
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Americanization
is a set of values that identify American culture
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incommunicado
incommunicado means not able, wanting, or allowed to communicate with other people
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while they have infected our social ideas with the diseaseof their own minds and their unclean morals, we can get rid of them! and not until we have done so shall we have removed the menace of Bolshevism for good.
the author thinks the society will be better off without Belshevism
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The spectre of communism haunts the world of capitalism. Communism, the hope of the workers to end misery and oppression
The communist want the worked to believe in communism
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Social revolution means the overthrow of the existing system.
This statement explains what social revolution means and why the Americans are afraid of a social revolution.
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he socialists are bent on destroying the American form of government.
Congress also thinks that socialism is wrong and should be done away.
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promulgation
Promulgation means to officially put a law into effect.
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The activities of crack-brained radicals and unreconstructed aliens who fail to appreciate the blessings of a free government must be suppressed. Following recent socialist demonstrations which have ended in riots, the board of aldermen of New York has adopted an ordinance prohibiting the display of red flags in parades or public meetings in that city and fixing a maximum penalty of $100 fine and ten days’ imprisonment for violation of it.
This statement proves that the Americans were scared of the Soviets.
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Every alien who comes to these shores and begins preaching against the United States government should be imprisoned at once. Deportation is not sufficient; it would merely leave him free to afflict some other land.
The author believes that every alien should put in jail if they preach against the United States.
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The red flag of bolshevism and anarchy, though displayed in a parade of socialists, no longer has any place in the United States. It signifies defiance of law, order, and constitutional government. It is an insult to the Stars and Stripes
The author believes than the red flag and bolshevism and anarchy do not belong in the United States.
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“true AMERICANS.”
Who exactly are the "true Americans?"
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pacifists
A person who doesn't believe in war or violence.
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The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé, incumbent President William Howard Taft. 1912-1916
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