HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 9 Outline of Last Lecture I. Convict-Lease SystemII. Plessy v. FergusonIII. One Drop RuleIV. Mississippi PlanV. African American ResponseOutline of Current Lecture II. William Randolph Hearsta. Yellow JournalismIII. Transportation Revolutiona. Planned Obsolescence Current LectureWilliam Randolph Hearst -grew up in a wealthy family; attended the best schools; graduated from Harvard-wanted to run a newspaper so his father bought him a newspaper-during the Spanish-American War he sent out reporters to gather pictures of the war and in return he would help supply the war “You supply the pictures; I’ll supplythe war.”- He was the first newspaper to station a team of reporters in Cuba to monitor the events happening there-Hearst published articles of brutality, cruelty and poor care to build the public opinion regarding America's involvement in the war-Yellow Journalism- the news was over-dramatized and altered to fit story ideas that publishers and editors thought would sell the most papers and stir the most interest for the public so that news boys could sell more papers on street corners-newspaper war between William Hearst and Joseph PulitzerTransportation Revolution-Henry Ford wanted to create inexpensive cars for the population to buy; after testing multiple cars, he chose the model T which is the model that was sold the most; he was the These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.first to create an assembly line to produce more cars; he thought if he raised his employees’ income that would lead to more purchases, which would boost the economy Planned obsolescence- A manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products become out-of-date or useless within a time period-main goal of this type of production is to ensure that consumers will have to buy the product multiple times, rather than only once-This stimulates demand for an industry's products because consumers have to keep coming back again and
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