EDUC247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Stock Market, Ice Cream Cone, Multiple Choice
16 May 2016
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The 1920"s: prosperity, recreation, gender roles, delaware college for women. Look at pages 24-29 for delaware college catalog. Prosperity: stock market is building up, delaware: we helped give meaning to the chicken in every pot as we had enough. Chickens were more expensive than beef and pork. 200 chicken to 1 person: go from almost no cars in early 1900"s to almost a car in every garage in the 1920"s. 4: significant in how companies are trying to reach consumers, ads are telling you as a consumer its going to bring you benefits and gains, one historian read 100,000 ads from the 1920"s. Conventional message is that she wants to settle down and become dependent: flappers, short skirts. Energetic dancing: advertisements, many ads have an aura of elegance, persuasive. Gender roles: dating, not called dating in late 19th century. If called dating meant you were going to see a prostitute.
