Take a look at America and take these two days Side by side : thanksgiving and Black Friday what does the juxtaposition of these two days reveal about the American identity and who we are as a society?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The juxtaposition of these two days -Thanksgiving and Black Friday- reveals the following about the American identity and who we are as a society.

First, Thanksgiving, the most special day for the American people. A day in a year in which family gathers together and say grace and express gratitude for what they have.

It is sad that there is one "official day" established to express gratitude and celebrate. Every single day is the perfect time to thank for what we have and for the fact that we are alive. And here comes the next part of my answer, Consumerism.  

As families gather together, happy, in the family environment, marketing and consumerism take advantage of these happy moments and moods in the American family to "invite" them to move the economy and spend as a way to prove their prosperity. And then we go, "happily" to shop, shop, and shop. It does not matter if we need the things we buy, or not. If it's on sale, it is a good time to shop.

science.

modern problems require modern solutions.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.