The fact remains that while materialism may be the most shallow of the 20th century's various -isms, it has been the one that has ultimately triumphed" (Twichell, 1999). ... A man by the name Edward Bernays was employed to promote America's war aims in the press. ... " Since the end of the 19th century, America had been a mass industrial society. ... We must shape a new mentality in America. ... The social construct of reality for the average American began to make a major shift. ...

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All across America, in the streets, newspapers, magazines, homes, as well as in schools and businesses are advertisers' mass marketing tools, usurping freedoms from children and their parents and changing American culture. ... Though commercial promoters in America's free enterprise system are regulated because of societal pressures, they also are protected in their rights under freedom of expression. This allows a company to unfairly target America's youth, regardless of the very young's inability to recognize the concept of advertising persuasion. ... This view is accepte...

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