Beginning with close readings and analysis of Ken Dryden’s “The Game” and Witold Rybczynski’s “Nostalgia” to introduce and develop your topic, and employing at least two scholarly secondary sources to support your argument, explore the influence of retail corporations and the media (advertising) on consumerism.

Possible issues might include:
• consumers’ privileging of social status over fiscal and physical well-being
• Capitalist privileging of wealth over environmental or ecological sustainability
• Corporate outsourcing of product manufacture to developing countries that lack proper safeguards against worker exploitation (sweatshop labour)
• Corporate outsourcing of product manufacture to developing countries that lack proper safeguards against environmental damage
• the power of icons to influence consumerist behaviour including dieting in attempts to attain unrealistic and fabricated ideals of body size, shape, and do on