Wednesday‚ July 11th 2012 Materialism Changed People’s Attitude In the 20th century‚ after the World War I‚ rapid surge of industrial and technological growth swept throughout the world. At the same time‚ people started to build their own ideas and belief based on the materialism rather than giving higher priorities to moral and individual values. As Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrayed a story happening in that time period‚ it contains various contents about materialism. In order to display the
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of Staff that the US should be removed from Korea. By 1948‚ the opposing governments were established: The Republic of Korea (South) and the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North). Tensions between the two quickly heightened. On June 25th‚ 1950‚ after multiple failed attempts to create uprisings in South Korea‚ communist North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel‚ invading South Korea. As Kim Il-Sung’s Soviet supported army overran South Korea‚ the US‚ interpreting the invasion as an act
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1) Do you think conformity with norms in general is a good or bad thing? Why? Conformity can come in useful when we are in unfamiliar surroundings or activities. Everyone has done it in some way or another throughout their life and it really can come in handy with unknown situations. I would say it can be good and bad‚ if there is a social norm that is meant to keep order and peace‚ then conforming to this standard can be considered good. However when the norm is intentionally used to harm or disrupt
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very shallow‚ materialistic society dominated by aristocrats simply concerned with obtaining status and indulging in pleasures instead of living real‚ authentic lives. The relationships that Ivan becomes involved in are a clear indicator of his conformity to what is accepted by society.
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The Madness of Materialism by Steve Taylor talks about how we are so driven to accumulate possessions and wealth. He also talks about the history of James Marshall in the early 1848. James Marshall is a guys who found a piece of glowing metal on the floor‚ which turned out to be gold in Sacramento. As soon as he found the gold‚ people started going to the area‚ struck by ‘gold fever’. In a little over a year‚ San Francisco grew from shanty town of 79 building to a city of tens of thousands. But then
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This piece has awesome description! Some moments that I like were; "an arched entry to a kitchen decorated in 1960s linoleum the color of Hollywood sanitariums and brushed aluminum where the 1950s chrome would have been." and "the autumn walnut and chestnut fights we had when the trees in the yard dumped loads of nuts in the sleeping grass." They both let me envision these scenes as if I were there looking at them. I also really like the comparison you made of your childhood to an antique bureau
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’The Asch Studies’ were a series of experiments designed to test humans’ tendency for conformity. Asch’s work was a direct response to the work of Sherif‚ although Sherif was technically studying the process of norm formation in new groups. The reason why Asch wanted to improve on Sherif’s work is that he believed that Sherif only achieved the results he did due to the ambiguity of the task; in other words‚ the participants had no idea what the correct answer was and so considered their best bet
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In the 1950’s there was a massive change in culture and the start of communism was rising up. Communism during this time was everyone’s fear and because of this issue‚ everyone was starting to get all paranoia. Spies in the US atomic program were passing around secrets to the Soviet Union to set off a nationwide panic that communist spies may be invading many American institutions. In the 1950’s‚ allegations were made towards Hollywood that they were involved with the communists that was led by the
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the idea of “change” was most likely coming second to a lot of people. Many families just wanted their old lives back‚ the ones that were before the wars. That I believe held many people to be complacent at the end of the 1940’s and throughout the 1950’s. However‚ in the 1960’s and 1970’s a new generation had emerged. One
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obeying them and committing horrific acts. Obedience is the process by which an individual complies with the instruction given by an authoritative figure. It is different to conformity which is when an individual changes their behaviour to fit in with a group. In obedience an instruction must be given to follow whereas in conformity there is no instructions given and individual chooses to change due to group pressure. It is important to conduct research into obedience
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