Popular Nostalgia Research Paper

After the War of 1812, America experienced a prosperous time due to economic well-being. This was called the “Era of Good Feeling” because there was only one primary political party at the time, Republicans. Henry Clay created the American System, a policy to promote industry in the United States. This system brought along the creation of the Second National Bank, a high protective tariff on imports, and the building of new roads and transportation to link the country together.

Before the Era of Good Feelings, the United States engaged in a confrontation with Great Britain in the War of 1812. Americans had a national pride to show independence from Great Britain, which sparked from battles such as the Battle of New Orleans, where Americans had an overwhelming victory over the British. This event is significant because this establishes the nationalism of the United States, forming the core basis of the Era of Good Feelings.

defined as “a repudiation of present day social, economic, and cultural realities for a ‘past’ that may not reflect reality” (Suarez, Walt Disney Lecture). Henceforth, the politics of nostalgia is an individual’s concept and memory of past realities while rejecting all other ideas. This concept can be applicable to several locations, events, and individuals, but the two locations I want to focus on is Walt Disney’s Disneyland and Christine Sterling’s Olvera Street.

I have heard many people talk about their love for earlier decades such as the fifties and how they wish they could go back and live in the “Simple Times” but in

Not only can someone make memories once they get to their destination but the can make as many memories during the journey. This makes the journey just as important as the destination. People can make memories by taking a picture of other people and places when traveling through a state. That picture would bring back memories of the journey when those people see it. Some people that disagree claim that not all memories during the journey are good and can sometimes ruin someone’s trip once they reach their destination. Factors like sickness. Arguments. And bad luck can ruin a journey. Making memories is important when going on a journey. Most of the time good memories occur more than bad memories. There will be many memories made along the way which people still think about even after reaching your

The US Made the Right decision by dropping the bomb on little boy. The Japanese fought hard and ruthlessly.They would fight to the last man on the pacific front. Also there citizens would commit suicide before they surrendered. In one of the island battles the Japanese would blow themselves up. Also the Japanese would crash jets into ships. The alternative was a massive ground invasion including 100,000 of thousands of soldiers. Then the survivors at Tokyo would have fought to the last man, woman, and child in a desperate final stand. That would made the causalities skyrocket to about 500,000 thousand or millions. However, around 200,000 died from the atomic bomb. Dropping the bomb was the lesser of two evils.

In the article Why You Should Travel Young by Jeff Goins, he discusses the importance of exploration and adventure and how the experiences can impact your life forever. The main ideas he talked about were how the habits you create now will most likely stick with you for the rest of your life and how traveling broadens your view on issues larger than you can even imagine. While reading this article the main subject I agreed with was the idea of habits sticking with you for life and disagreeing with the idea that “yeah but…” is always negative.

It is when we experience discontinuity in our life, such as the death of or sudden separation from a loved one, that nostalgia may come into play. Ironically, while we combat feelings of sadness or mourning by allowing our minds to re-live moments when our lives felt more whole, we are also reminding ourselves of what we have lost. Nostalgia is not just a search for the past within the mnemonic, but also within the temporal, ‘a yearning for a different time- the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our

Nostalgia lives in our veins, we breath and vision it all the time. Nostalgia was a disease throughout the early 1700’s, was coined with a mixture of Greek words of returning home and pain: Throughout the war, nostalgic were affecting the troops over the scale of homesick to perform their duties and the only option to recover the troop was by sending them back home. Now nostalgia has influenced modern day as generations expresses time back at their “good old days”, wishing that they could flashback. Nostalgic has even swayed the media perceptive as recreating their old films or shows in the new modern days to fill the gap of their childhood, and showing their children their favorite shows on television when they were a kid.

I also discussed appeals to popular passions (your first reason) in my discussion board response. He plays off of the crowd’s interests to establish common ground (one of Aristotle’s main principles of rhetoric) and build up ethos so that the audience takes a greater interest in the process of persuasion (Simons et. al., 2001). In my response, I focused more on the appeals to conservative values such as patriotism/nationalism and Christianity, so I like that your response identified and explored some alternative appeals to passions that I didn’t notice until now. For example, I like how you pointed out his references to country music to connect with the conservative Tennessee crowd. You also included some interesting references to the use of fear appeals and the vilification of immigrants and outsiders.

No Country for Old Men is a novel that revolves heavily around the theme of nihilism and nostalgia. Main characters, Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh represent this immensely throughout the novel.

The best examples we read about desire and nostalgia in music was related to the Buena Vista Social Club piece and the plena piece. Both styles are an example of a “forgotten” style of music that resurfaced and gained acclaim thanks, in part, to the US. In the case of son, it was “rediscovered” and made popular by a white male. This demonstrates the classic discoverer narrative where the discoverer makes a discovery and better markets it than the native peoples and suddenly, it’s fresh and new because it’s more humanistic and authentic in some way.

In the United States, more that 4 million Americans are denied the right to vote because they have once been convicted of a felony (National Public Radio, 2012). Many of these Americans have completed their sentences and are no longer deemed felons. Disenfranchisement of such individuals an American citizens is morally wrong and that with the dismissal of disenfranchisement policies, the affect of enfranchising ex-felons would be beneficial for not only the community in which they reside, but the United States of America as a whole.

Life sometimes seems scary. The fear of failure and the fear of the unknown make a person rethink its choices and goals, this happens all the time. As time passes, be days, moths, years or only simply one experience can change our whole vision of the world, about life, about what really matters and consequently about our goals. Throughout my whole life I have questioned so many aspects of my life, of existence, and consequently about my future. I never stopped wanting to achieve something big, that could change the whole world, some amazing adventure that would be the one thing that would give birth to all the amazing things that could happen next. As time passed I realized that life itself is one big adventure, and that what I will do every day will matter for me and for the people around me. I realized that life is not some perfect movie where there are good guys, bad guys and that in the end of one amazing journey everything would be solved. It may be a childish vision of the world, but it had motivated me for years to do the thing I believed would help me achieve this, and to believe in myself. Obviously as I grew up, I saw what the world really looked like, that sacrifices have to be made, that there are things which no one can control, that if I want something I have to work really hard. In today society everything counts.

There are certain memories that we have that we can remember like they happened yesterday. Many of those memories that have special meaning to me were of family vacations when I was young growing up with my brothers and sisters. Family memories are important to many of us because they take us back to a time or place that was special. One particular family vacation I remember vividly, and it’s a story I have shared with my kids on many occasions. Over the 40 or more years since that memorable vacation, I still smile and think how lucky I was growing up with a mother and father that did everything to give their kids an unforgettable memory.