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Home 1920's Topics __1920’s Project Assignment__ Dale Carnegie Researched by Emily Miller
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__Task One---DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC -Due Tuesday, February 7__ Each topic includes an association or movement and an individual. Please write __two__ extended power paragraphs that address the following prompt:**Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.** Dale Carnegie was a writer and lecturer who shared his ideas of cooperation in business, as well with other people, through training courses and books. Carnegie went through many different jobs, such as salesman and public speaking teacher, which helped mold his ideas. Carnegie started off, according to Daniel Leab a professor at Seton Hall University, by selling “bacon, soap, and lard for Armour and Company in the Badlands of South Dakota,” he was no stranger to business. In 1912, he asked the owner of the hostel that he lived in if he could teach a public speaking class to businessmen, many YMCAs from other cities began requesting his teaching techniques favoring his, “tool for getting the most reluctant speakers to speak naturally by asking them to talk about something that made them angry”(Leab). Carnegie got his big break when, according to Peter Handal who runs the Dale Carnegie empire today, “an editor for Simon and Schuster convinced him to write a book [//How To Win Friends and Influence People]//” of his ideas. Dale Carnegie was able to influence businessmen to not only succeed but also cooperate through his lectures and best-selling book. By writing books and teaching classes he set up criteria for businesses and people to follow. In the 1920s, Americans were eager for advice on how they should live their lives and turned to literature for answers. Many turned to Carnegie’s book because, in the words of David E. Kyvig an American Historian and professor at Northern Illinois University, “’making people like you’ and ‘handling people’ were crucial to personal success.” To further influence others, Dale Carnegie mad the Dale Carnegie and Associates Inc., which offers to this day, according to a New York Times Article by Dwight Garner, “leadership and public speaking classes.” Dale Carnegie and Associates also, very boldly, rewrote Carnegie’s //How to Win Friends and Influence People// retitling it //How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age// offering, “advice about being a polite e-mailer and navigating the pitfalls of twitter”(Garner). Dale Carnegie’s advice is still being followed today, however, not in ink and paper, but type and computers. __Task Two-EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE-Due Friday, February 10__ Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of three credible sources. Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First century.

The citizen’s who lived during the 1920’s are most famously called “the Lost Generation.” There was a shift during this time period from barely many people being literate to citizens turning to books to give them advice and to shape their character. According to David E. Kyvig an American Historian, “ The 1920 census reported only 2% of native whites, 13% of nonnative whites, and 23% of nonwhites to be illiterate.” To put it differently according to Vincent A. Lacey a SICU faculty member, “ As the decade began, there were almost five million illiterate people, ten years of age or older, in the total population.” However, by the end of the decade, many people became more interested in education and turned to books for advice. One of these books was Dale Carnegie’s //How to Win Friends and Influence people.//

The book still leaves its mark today with a more modern version and people who help spread Carnegie’s ideas. There’s a website called dalecarnegie.com that helps businesses grow by teaching them how to cooperate with each other as co-workers. The book today is still very popular and according to Patrick N. Allitt, a professor of American History at Emory University, //How to Win Friends and Influence People// is, “essentially a book of advice to salesmen and executives who wanted to manipulate their customers and employees.” Even today, the book influences many people with its modern revision. The book is now sold in a different version titled //How To Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age//, teaching people how to, “to indicate a smile in an e-mail or an instant message”(Garner). Carnegie’s influence is still spread today even if his advice has gone through a dramatic modernization.

Task ThreeJUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATION---Due Feb. 15 Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic, and you know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, what were the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the Great Man Continuum to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each citing a minimum of three credible sources.

In the 1920s, many people looked towards literature to shape their lives. Industrialization was prosperous and during this time many looked towards books to give them advice. In the 1920s, Americans were reading like crazy, “ Newspapers, magazines, and advertisements constituted a significant portion but scarcely all of what was being read”(Kyvig). Groups were even made like the BOMC which, “represented something quite different, an active arbiter of culture rather than a supplier of literature of proven popularity” (Kyvig). Dale Carnegie’s //How To Win Friends and Influence People// is a good example of a piece of work that shaped peoples lives in the 1920s because it taught, “smile, be a good listener, don't criticize, praise, avoid an argument, see the other person's point of view, allow the other to save face, and ask questions about the other person's interests”(Leab). Literature was what people looked towards to improve themselves and Dale Carnegie was able to contribute to Americans needs.

 On a continuum Dale Carnegie’s influence would be in-between eventful hero and social determinism. Carnegie put the idea, of writing a book about how to succeed and business and socially, on the market and his advice remains today, however, it’s an idea with many perspectives and Dale Carnegie is not a name well- known today. Since many people looked towards media and literature for influence on how to live their daily lives Carnegie’s book gave, “In the midst of the Depression, U.S. culture reflected public anxieties and guided the manner of response”(Kyvig). The impact of Carnegie’s work emphasized manners for the work place like, according to Edward Claflin and author, “ to gaze intently on your interlocutor, to use a dazzling smile, to remember his name, and praise him lavishly.” Carnegie’s influence still exists today in modern twists; such as giving examples of working in the summertime, according to a USA today magazine who quoted Peter Handal, by sticking to your works summertime policy and remembering, "It is important to interpret seasonal guidelines in the generous spirit they were intended while maintaining a professional decorum.” Carnegie’s work will influence other peoples work today even if we don’t remember the founder was of such advice.

Works Cited:

Garner, Dwight. "Classic Advice: Please, Leave Well En <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">ough Alone." //New York Times// 5 Oct. 2011: A1(L). //Gale Student Resources In Context//. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.

Handal, Peter, and Richard Schlesinger. "Dale Carnegie and His Famous Advice."

Interview by Charles Osgood. //The Osgood Files//. 16 Jan. 2012. //Westwood//. Web.

Transcript. 6 Feb. 2012.

"Don't be a summer slacker at work." //USA Today// [Magazine] July 2006: 9. //Gale Student Resources In Context//. Web. 14 Feb. 2012.

Allitt, Patrick N. "How to Win Friends and Influence People." //Dictionary of American History//. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 186. //Gale Student Resources In Context//. Web. 14 Feb. 2012.

Kyvig, David E. "Reading in the United States: 1920–1939." //Daily Life through History//. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.

Leab, Daniel, et al. "Dale Carnegie: //How to Win Friends and Influence People// (1936)." //Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas//. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.

Allitt, Patrick N. "How to Win Friends and Influence People." // Dictionary of American History //. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 186. // Gale Student Resources In Context //. Web. 9 Feb. 2012.

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