However, shopping can lead to exhaustion, for you have to first find your needed items through crowds of people and then wait in long lines just to buy your items. Buying more and more items may add up to becoming expensive as well. Not to mention that after you shop, you would have to set up or store away everything that you bought before your guests comes over to celebrate. In conclusion, the discussion in the article, “Shopping Trumps Turkey”, by Gregory Karp, represents different opinions between whether or not retailers should continue releasing Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving day.
Andrew Leonard gives a clear stance on his argument "Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization". When we look at the article the reader can infer that Leonard is against "Black Friday" and he makes his point clear when he says "I find the notion that we should "occupy Black Friday" and without our consumer dollars as a way of hitting back at the 1 percent just nutty. "(Leonard). Leonard is not arguing that employees should be home with their families instead of working on "Black Friday" but rather arguing that "there is a point where healthy consumerism becomes out of control marketing driven fetishism" (Leonard).
Summary of Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization The author Andrew Leonard states that the Black Friday insanity is not acceptable within the society. It is getting too out of hand and is leading to people being trampled to death over a good deal on something. Leonards information comes from Target employees who feel that it is unnecessary to have “Black Friday” sales on Thanksgiving, they feel like they should be able to spend Thanksgiving at home with their loved ones. The true meaning of Thanksgiving has been lowered, because people are too worried about getting a good deal rather than spending time with family and showing the true meaning.
There are parades in the big cities, like New York, and of course Macy’s makes a sale out of it. There is much controversy with this holiday, not only in the United States, but also in other countries that
When one thinks of Thanksgiving, the first image to come to mind is a beautiful, stuffed turkey placed in the middle of the dinner table. However, is this turkey so vital to the Thanksgiving feast, that without it the holiday would fall apart? In an excerpt from his book, Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer argues that the Thanksgiving turkey, despite its prevalence during the holiday, is not essential to its celebration. He establishes this claim by challenging the belief that Thanksgiving would not be the same without turkey. He also argues that if Americans are truly celebrating their thanks, slaughtering turkeys is not the way to do that.
Throughout the last decade, there have been an increasing number of store that have chosen to remain open on Thanksgiving Day. Kmart, Walmart, Macy’s, Target and other retailers will be open on Thanksgiving Day – a decision, the retailers say, imposed by the desires of their customers. Some stores will remain closed so their employees can have Thanksgiving Day with their friends and family. The dividing issue – should stores be open on Thanksgiving Day? – divides American consumers. Another similar question is – are the drawbacks outweigh the potential sales of Thanksgiving weekend shopping?
While reading the article, “Deconstructing the Myths of the “First Thanksgiving” by Judy Dow and Beverly Slapin, we learned an abundance of new “facts”, for example, there was
Stores should not be open on thanksgiving/Black Friday. Even though It is very good for the stores to be open on Black Friday/Thanksgiving, stores should not be open on Thanksgiving because it affects lots of people by being open. People are very dangerous on Black Friday and there have been 7 deaths plus 98 injuries because of Black Friday. People are very dangerous on Black Friday.
Black Friday shopping has evolved into an unusual sort of spectacle that grows excessively with every coming year. As a country, we go from a prideful national holiday, Thanksgiving, where we give thanks for all of the things that we have in our lives, to fighting tooth and nail a few hours later against other people for the things that we do not have. According to the Accounting Degree Review and its article, “Black Friday By The Numbers” (2015) in recent years, “89 million shoppers braved the crowds on Black Friday 2012, up from 86 million in 2011. 247 million shoppers over the weekend 2012, up from 226 million in 2011” (p.1) A lot of people are obsessive and forward with their efforts to own the next best thing, but yet fall silent to giving their support for pivotal social movements occurring at the same time as the largest shopping event of the year.
Canada is a country often viewed by many people with a bit of bewilderment and skepticism. Unlike their neighbors to the south, Canada has had a major socialist movement, and their government reflects that. They have had universal health care since 1984, made same sex marriage legal ten years before America, and a stereotype of quiet kindness has settled over the nation. It should come as no surprise then, that in 1992, the Canadian Government organized something called “Buy Nothing Day”, where citizens agree not to purchase anything for one day to help show the ethical and environmental consequences of excessive consumerism. This holiday is celebrated the day after Thanksgiving, replacing the consumer-focused holiday Black Friday.
Every year, millions of defenseless beings are mercilessly slaughtered, ripped from their lives and devoured in the name of the tradition that is Thanksgiving. This atrocity is not only allowed, but it is also encouraged and celebrated. This slaughter is seen as an integral element of American culture and identity, and is supported by nearly everyone, heedless of its toll on innocent life. It is a terrible practice that mars America’s reputation as a place of equality and justice. Despite its long history, the tradition of eating turkey on Thanksgiving must end because it is an awful and unfair annual massacre, turkeys aren’t particularly nutritious, and it is unimaginably cruel to tear someone from their family like that.
Today, Thanksgiving is represented in a positive way but only because we leave out the parts of history that don’t go along with the story we want. Media portrays a different story than the
As studied by Janet Siskind, the American Thanksgiving celebration is actually a very detailed ritual that contains many symbols. Similar to other rituals, the holiday reinforces certain social structures and “…reaffirms values and assumptions about cultural and social unity, about identity and history, about inclusion and exclusion” (168). The Thanksgiving ritual is centered around a return home, as people traveled from their urban homes back to their rural home to meet with their larger family. As a result, “the household became the site of ritual performance…” (175). The goal of the Thanksgiving ritual was to reaffirm the family and renew traditional ties, especially as more people had started moving into the cities around the time that the holiday became popular in the United States (176).
Today in recent news from our very own messenger we came to find that the once great city of thebes that was on its way to it's own demolish since it's king laius died and was replaced by a young man named Oedipus,has regained it's livelyness back but not in a good way. We have learned that the new king Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta though he had no idea since he was sent to be killed he then became the son of polybus and his wife. The reason for him being sent off was because of an horrible oricle, that oricle has come true he came to the the place where three roads met and murdered his own father and his army. He then became king of thebes and married the lady Jocasta and bared children with neither one knowing that they where mother
The second article is by Julie Irwin, “Ethical Consumerism isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing.” This article is a complete opposite from the first however it still seems that these customers still have their own idea of what is right and what is wrong. The first article, “Black Friday: Consumerism Versus Civilization” is arguing about Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Andrew Leonard states, “ I am not opposed to vigorous sprees of retail spending. For the sake of the U.S. economy, I would love to see a robust Christmas shopping season and I plan to d o my part.
