1. Smokey the Bear - Modern Day Phaedrus
... of forests became a matter of national importance. The idea was to urge people to be more careful in hopes that some forest fires could be prevented (www.smokeybear.com). In 1944, Disney allowed the Ad Council to use "Bambi" on their first campaign poster (see fig. 1). The poster was ... helped to reduce the destruction of our forests by wildfires from 22 million acres to less than 8.4 million acres per year since the campaign began (www.adcouncil.org). They acted as Plato's noble lover would have; "He is the conveyor and preserver of truth and morality" (Goldman, 55 ... ; This change oc...
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- Grade Level: High School