Parents helped the growth of materialism by signing up for credit cards. ... The baby boom generation began to introduce materialism, a peril of mass culture that exists today because materialism is cycle that can only be stopped by a drastic event, it won't end on its own. ... As materialism and the boomers increased veterans who were new parents were forced to adapt to the changes of a society. ... Parents financially had to adapt to the needs of kids, the bills of a house, and materialism. ... A common stereotype of Americans is they are lazy. ...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While the penny press was expanding it's boundaries in Canada the telegraph and telephone was starting to capture a hold of the American population. ... By this time, half of America had radios and most people accepted and applauded the idea of national broadcasting. ... America is a society where everyone owns at least one television set, and is the most used appliance in households where watching it daily has become routine. ... In Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, he aims to demonstrate the overpowering influence of entertainment and materialism on our daily live...

• Word Count: 972
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The 1920s and "30s saw African-Americans intimidated by cross-burnings, and beaten and lynched at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan (RoSo, 2002). ... As for liberalism, fascist propagandists stated that it celebrated godless materialism and selfish individualism (RoSo, 2002). ... For fascists, this meant materialism, self-indulgence, hedonism, cowardice, and physical and moral softness, as well as rationalism, skepticism, atheism, humanitarianism, and democracy. ...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cummings isn't the only activist who protested against conflict and American hierarchy, and pushed to "make love and not war." He sounds like the typical perception of an American hippie - big deal. ... Cummings was among the first to question modern America, and at the same time, create a unique writing style that would later distinguish him among the greatest writers in history. Through his poetry, Cummings rebels against the common perceptions of traditional American ideology in hopes to bring spiritual freedom to the rigidity of America. ... When Cummings uses "more blond than y...

• Word Count: 4790
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School