Thursday, 7 October 2010

Goodbye Summer!



Time to get the brain back in gear and begin my second year at winchester..

First Lecture back and we are back to good old Randolf Hearst, the lecture was a good revision session of this topic from last semester and woke up my brain and helped to get back into the routine 'Historical Context'. The lecture appealed to me as revision, therefore i will highlight some of the key facts which we went over in the lecture.

- The Gold Rush 1840's and 1850's.
- Failed revolution of 1847- 1848
- Irish Famine (1840)one in ten people died in the drive west across the continent
- The blank canvas: those who came from the old world moved into America, as they moved west there was nothing there so it encouraged people to do what they wanted. Therefore creating the idea of America.
- New frontier: the more west you went the more American you were. (California)
The main topic of the lecture:
-Hearts: He was one of the first men who travelled to California (1850) he became wealthy man later on in life. He brought the 'San Fransico Examiner' most were pure propaganda at the time. 1840 New York newspaper organised associated press, it needed to be objective because it supplied content for a variety of papers with different political benifits.
- Freedom of press

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