Bing Crosby's Argumentative Essay

The demonstration of television was in New York City at the world’s fair in 1939. Soon after with WWII Americas attention was elsewhere. It wasn’t until the post war of WWII in the 1950’s that the television industry was reborn and introduced to Americas main stream. American’s at that time that owned a television in the early 1950’s was 10 percent2. By the late1950’s there were 90 percent of Americans owning a television that’s an 80 percent increase2.

Looking back in time at advertisements and television shows in the era of the 1950’s and 60’s will open our eyes at how the world has changed in the past sixty-five years. The value of the way society sees certain demographics of people to the outlandish lifestyles expected among Americans of the time. The world has changed so much just in my life span when that time frame is doubled it is incredible to think just how different of a world we live in today. From big companies such as Coca-Cola to main stream cable television shows on AMC depicts a picture of segregation and ideology of Americans during this

The Roaring Twenties was a time of drastic reform; both in social regards and many others. One of the many things that had been born from the twenties is undoubtedly the American Experience. To people at the time, the term American Experience meant a plethora of things. It was a term that was unique to each individual, and stood for their goal, or maybe the lack thereof, or perhaps it stood for their own character and defined their whole life. Regardless, the American Experience was entirely adaptable; writing from the many authors that stemmed from this time had proved that to be true. Those authors had provided a view into the American Experience, but also a view on how the American Experience affected the population.

“I won’t be getting into any trouble Ma, he said, wrapping some bread and cold potatoes and half a roast chicken in some tow cotton. Plus they will be paying me, I hear they give eleven dollars a month.” These were the words Charley Goddard used to convince his mother joining the Union army was the right thing for him to do. Although he was only 15 years old, too young to join, he decided to lie about his age when asked by the Union army officer questioning him; He was very dedicated to fighting for what he believed in and helping his mother after the loss of his father. After his Pa died he had been struggling with the responsibility to help his family that is why he made the decision he did. Also, his hometown of Winona, Minnesota was abuzz

1950’s America was a time where medicine, technology and music were becoming more and more advanced. From the manufacturing of cars, to the birth of corny sitcoms, America was very quickly becoming more futuristic. Looking back at the 1950s, it is easy to look over the years and notice the positive aspects of the developing decade, but if one takes a closer look, it wasn’t as perfect as it seemed. Teenage gangs were at an all time high as the new sounds of rock and roll encouraged violence, a war between Russia and the US was brewing and media influence was encouraging conformity rather than individualism. Through the use of speculative narratives and themes of dystopia, some socialists and authors of the time tried to

The 1920s were marked by an increase in consumerism due to a booming economy post-World War I (CrashCourse, 2013), the increasing popularity of consumer debt (CrashCourse, 2013) and an increase in the mass production of consumer goods (Osburn, n.d.). Coupled with technological advances, families now had access to mass media (in the form of the radio and television) and modern conveniences, such as household appliances and automobiles. Radio and television broadcasts helped to build a mass culture, where consumers were watching, listening, purchasing and emulating the same things across the nation (Osburn, n.d.). Women’s suffrage granted women the right to vote; some women took this new found voting freedom as license to break from traditional female roles in other areas and began dressing and

When KDKA transmitted the first commercial radio broadcast on November 2, 1920, that sound could travel through the air to a location many miles away must have seemed amazing for all Americans in the era. Unfortunately, few people heard the broadcast because there were not many radios during the late 1910s because it was not well known. There was about one thousand radios in 1920 and it cost about hundred and fifty dollars (1920’s Radio). Regardless, the novelty of the radio caught the public’s imagination and soon, manufacturers could not keep up with the demand for radio receivers. Between 1923 and 1930, a whopping sixty percent of American families purchased radios and a custom where families gathered around it is time entertainment, forever

During the 1920s, Americans were introduced to many new products including ready-made exact size clothing, electric phonographs, electric vacuum cleaners, and radios (The Consumer Economy and Mass Entertainment). As soldiers returned from WWI, they brought new ideas, began to challenge society’s traditions and pushed for women’s independence. The soldiers had seen a new and different world in Europe and wanted to bring those traditions to America (Jarmul). The large sacrifices of the wartime era were no longer a part of everyday life (“The Decade That Roared”). The 1920s were a time of great change in America, especially with the introduction of new products like the automobile and new appliances, along with medical breakthroughs such as the discovery of insulin.

Your honor, as I evaluated Gene Forrester, he was exceedingly suspicious, although that doesn’t mean anything quite yet. I didn’t want him to feel uncomfortable, so we talked until I got to know Gene a little better than before. We went where he was most comfortable to talk about the incident.

In conclusion, television of the 1950s greatly influenced American culture and politics with its new forms of entertainment, commercials, and it’s broadcasting of news and political

There were many remembered people who were idolized and found fam in the 1950s. Rock and Roll swept the nation and brought along Elvis Presley. There was a first black baseball player, Jackie Robinson, who brought the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series. The fads and fashions of the 1950s were crazy and brought the movie star: Marilyn Monroe. Boxing brought fam to the short but mighty man, Rocky Marciano. All along the way the Transistor Radio spread news of these idolized people of the 1950s.

This is to show why in modern America, media and commercial art have achieved a strong consensus on their portrayal of the working class. In our modern society, for better or worse, television has become an integral part of American life. Unfortunately, rapid improvement in technologies have altered the social behaviors and chipped away many valuable practices and values as a human being. Rapidly changing social behaviors with materialism have influenced misconception about working-class people and often, they are portrayed as status that is not socially acceptable. In modern culture, it is almost seem as if the media dictates how our lives should be, and how each individual will be defined; based on their social status and the level of their earthly possessions. This work will use the 1987-1995 ABC situation comedy Roseanne, as well as several other television programs with instances from the modern reality and talk show formats, to show that the American working-class has been consistently portrayed as grotesque and tasteless, while at the same time, their struggles are portrayed by the same media as being either due to poor decisions or a lack of effort.

The 1960’s is a prominent part of American culture because something happened during this decade that was never really seen before: more

The 1950’s and 1960’s was an amazing time for television, kids would rush home to watch their favorite adventure show, women would pause their chores briefly to watch the drama unfold on their preferred soap opera, and men would come home after a long day of work, plop their butts down on their couch, and watch sports recaps and news shows for hours on end. Entertainment was the name of the game, and many shows like The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Bewitched came out in the 1960’s to try and fill this demand. One of these shows was That Girl starring Marlo Thomas, and it soon came to distinguish itself as both innovative on camera and off during its span of five years and five seasons

Film noir came into the public gaze in the post-war 1940’s. The American film industry continued to make and produce films during World War II and because the German’s where occupying France, they stopped all American films from being screened in the French theaters. When World War II had ended and the Nazi regime had collapsed in 1945 the France audience where greeted with a back log of American films. American films that reflected the anxieties of the American nation at that time and of the years that came before. Anxieties of the Great Depression that had taken place just two decades ago and the effects that the wars where having on the country.