Nostalgia Marketing

Because they are something then you can not see it or touch it, but it always twinkle and shining in your memory. We no longer see it surely and clearly. It just marks a good mark in our memory forever. But does those old days such good? We have better science and technology today; We have countless goods in our market;We have better medical care and education today. Why we still love those old days? I think we know the answer. Our feeling about those old days are not just good or better. It look more like a vision then fraud by our memories.This vision does not mean “want”. It look more like someday you meet your first crush, you won’t fall in love with her or him anymore, but you want just talk to her or him.When you meet her or him after so many years, you get a special feeling.This feeling bring you back in time. In the real world you two are having some insignificant chatter.In your memory you sitting at the old school playground. A smiling girl stand in the warm sunlight.She has a bright eyes and long neck. You speak to her with confidence and composure.She looks up into your eyes. Your cheerful mood such as the leaver on the trees,sing with the wind in spring. Your face seem like more handsome than usual.Someday, you willing to do anything for this vision.Someday, I willing to do anything for this vision. Because we know can not go back to that afternoon; we can not sitting at that old school playground again;

Chuck Klosterman, in the article “Nostalgia on Repeat,” there is two sides of nostalgia, how it can be good and bad for you. Klosterman, gives examples from both sides. Memories are the past, it is ok to remember them and think about them, maybe even smile from them, just don’t live there. Looking at the past can hinder growth, if a person cannot move on from it and wants to keep reliving that part of their life. The Authors purpose is to shine light on both sides of nostalgia, it is not all bad to remember the past and even flash back to it. However, trying to relive the past is not all good either. It stunts growth and keeps a person from living their life in the now. Chuck Klosterman, writes in a casual tone for those readers that are too

Nostalgia is the feeling of missing the past. In “Grape Sherbet” by Rita Dove, the speaker develops this feeling by using past-tense verbs. The speaker also uses family to show that she misses the past. Furthermore, the speaker indicates the fleeting nature of time by using themes of death. The speaker in “Grape Sherbet” by Rita Dove has an attitude of nostalgia.

The notion that time will always continue to march forth can be likened to a small and bitter pill:; seemingly plain and amusingly easy to conquer when laid out, yet in actuality shockingly difficult to swallow. Every minute, every hour, every day is insignificant when contrasted against the length of our lives yet we are so wrapped up in our egos that we are too stubborn to accept that, preferring to immerse ourselves in fanciful fantasies of “what if?” in an effort to relive the past rather than look towards the future. Flashes of nostalgia strike us when we come across an old flame or the setting of a fond memory, and we often try to recreate those memories and joy once felt without any consideration for the person we have matured into.

“I didn’t think the Twinkie would thrill the way it used to, and it didn’t. But it tasted like memory” In this quote from “Goodbye to My Twinkie Days”, author Bich Minh Nguyen, is describing a sense of nostalgia. Nostalgia, as defined by the Cambridge English dictionary, is a feeling of pleasure and sometimes slight sadness at the same time as an individual thinks about things that happened in the past. This feeling can be evoked through old photographs, food, music, and even literature. Nostalgia provides a temporary relief of present times, which is why people actively seek a feeling of nostalgia.

A pure memory. A truthful memory that is seen through the eyes of different individuals. The creepy, yet capturing toy that never seems to be forgotten. As we grow all our old toys seem to either be broken, thrown out or just simply lost and then forgotten. We may forget them, but do they forget us, and if they do not – what does that mean for us and our future?

That jersey held the full collection of memories with my grandfather: holidays, camping, and his long rambling lectures. It is such a powerful item because of the memories it holds. Objects themselves can be conjurers of emotion because they have the ability to capture a moment: a visual time capsule. Just as Teju Cole, suggest in his article, “Object Lessons,” ordinary objects directly harmed by war can provide a glimpse into the affects a conflict has had on the owners. Cole compares them to the gory, overly cinematic, medieval portrayals that are often shown in the news, which do not evoke the sympathy from the viewer that simple objects do. He uses still life photographs of ransacked kitchens during the Ukrainian conflict and the uniform of a missing school girls as support for his claim. His reasoning is that, “Objects, sometimes more powerfully than faces, remind us of what was and longer is” (Cole 5). We experience that moment of pain with the victims: despite their absence from the

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.

Nostalgia is America's fatal disease. We love to "go back," to talk of the good old days, to wish we could return to an era forever gone. This rhetoric that warms our hearts, though, is, ironically, the impetus for our national self-destruction. Nostalgia valorizes a past that never was, casts a dark shadow of distortion across the present, and prevents us from projecting a viable, sincere vision of a better future. When we, as a nation, say we want to go back to a time past, that's very often what happens, for such talk sends us into a regressive downward spiral that prevents critical social progress in America.

Nostalgia is most comparable to déjà vu. It’s familiar, but at the same time new. But, where déjà vu is unsettling, nostalgia is a comfortable sort of bliss that is distinct and undeniable. We all have re-watched a childhood

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To relate the topic of nostalgia with food to my life, I recall a cherished memory I have about making enchiladas with my grandma when I was nine. My mom’s father is hispanic, but her mother is not, so she learned how to make hispanic food just for him. I have always admired this, because she learned how to do this just to make my grandpa happy. She made us many hispanic dishes, but my favorite is still her enchiladas. I still remember the smell of the chicken and beef that my grandma had prepared

Admittedly, this is me romanticizing a bit. Well, not a bit, a lot. I long for the times of the past, not so much so that I travel to that time (maybe in my dreams, but not in reality), like Owen Wilson's character in Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight (though, compared to me, I’d say the dear man had a mild case of nostalgia, while I have a severe and

People who are nostalgic about childhood, were obviously never children. Few people can remember the truth about adolescence. Their minds "censor" their memories; and have them believe that being a teenager was was one big party, free of cares and responsibilities. Well let me say this, you couldnOt be more wrong if you had a lobotomy. There aren't that many adults around who realise what adolescence was really like. The anguish, the fear, the anxiety, the stress. People don't remember those problems because they want to forget them.

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