0From Salvation To Self-Realization: Advertising and the Therapeutic Roots of the Consumer Culture‚ 1880-1930 T. J. Jackson Lears Lears‚ T.J. Jackson 1983. From salvation to self-realization: Advertising and the therapeutic roots of the consumer culture‚ 1880-1930. In The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History‚ 18801980‚ ed. by Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears‚ New York: Pantheon Books‚ 1-38. Reprinted with the permission of the author. 1"On or about December 1910
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As time progressed‚ the public started to become increasingly progressive. With the age of the Social Dance Revolution and the rise of women in the work force on the cusp‚ women in particular began to shed the traditional ideas of courtship and modesty. The 1920’s song “Sweet mama tree top tall; Wont you kindly turn your damper down” tells of an African American woman that is representative of the women of this time period. This song utilized a black woman to both appeal to the free-spirited figure
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Why did the U.S. become an imperial power? Americans had always sought to expand the size of their nation‚ and throughout the 19th century they extended their control toward the Pacific Ocean. However‚ by the 1880’s‚ many American leaders had become convinced that the United States should join the imperialist powers of Europe and establish colonies overseas. Imperialism‚ the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic‚ political‚ and cultural control over weaker territories‚ was already
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To what extent was “the Gilded Age” an age of inaction‚ apathy‚ and extremism in American politics? Thesis: The Gilded Age has become classified as an era that demeans American politics. The time period consisted of severe lack of interest and concern with the people‚ idleness within the government and its decisions‚ as well as numerous instances of groups’ tending to maintain the disposition to shift toward the extremes. Background: The time throughout the 1870s and some of the twentieth
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William Edward Burghardt famously recognized as W.E.B Dubois was born on February 23‚ 1868 in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts. W.E.B Dubois was famously recognized as an American sociologist‚ historian‚ civil rights activist‚ Pan-Africanist‚ author and editor. W.E.B Dubois was born to parents Alfred Dubois and Mary Silvina Du Bois who was apart of a diminutive group of released blacks. During Dubois’ early childhood‚ his parents got divorced in 1870 when W.E.B was two years of age and he lived with
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from ingestion of food or water exposed to feces). While he was waiting to take his exam he got engineering experience at sluzer bros machine works. After graduating in 1880 diesel went to work for his college professor Carl Von Linde to develop a refrigeration and ice factory‚ and became the director of the plant one year later. In 1890 he moved to Berlin where he started working toward better fuel economy for steam engines‚ he tried using ammonia vapor to gain his desired fuel economy but the engine
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a microphone and operating levers‚ knobs and switches to keep the illusion alive. Frank Baum‚ the writer of this tale was an editor of a small newspaper in Aberdeen‚ South Dakota. Baum had written on politics and current events in the late 1880s and early 1890s‚ a period that coincided with the formation of the Populist Party. Baum was sympathetic to the Populist movement‚ supported William Jennings Bryan in the election of 1896‚ and consistently voted for Democratic candidates. The author himself
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of decrees beginning in the mid-1880’s that violated these conditions. First‚ he decreed that Belgium assert rights of proprietorship over all vacant land in the Congo. In three successive decrees‚ the already few rights of the Congolese were reduced even further. They were only able to lay claim on their native villages and farms. Second‚ Leopold ordered that merchants limit their commercial operations in the Congo to no more that bartering with natives. By 1890‚ faced with considerable financial
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Were the executions of Spies‚ Parsons‚ Fischer‚ and Engel a tactic on the part of business and government to damage the effectiveness of the labor movement? If it was‚ did it work? 10. What successes did the labor movement score in the 1880s and 1890s? 11. What was Frick’s strategy to break the steel-workers’ union at the Homestead steel plant? Did the plan work? What is the evidence to support your answer? 12. What was the effect of the mass demonstrations that immediately followed
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Listed below are a series of factors responsible for American industrialism in the late nineteenth century. First‚ explain the significance of each term. Then‚ examine the list‚ divide the items into three or four categories‚ and label the categories. Finally‚ write a thesis statement to account for the United States becoming the foremost industrial power inthe world by 1900. i “Advanced Placement U.S. History I Lesson 25 Handout 25 {page 1] The Emergence of Industrial America
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