Yellow Journalism

Yellow journalism is either writing a story that is based on fact but is not necessarily true; or writing sensational headlines in order to get readers; or both. It was started by a man named Joseph Pulitzer. who remarkably now has a prize named after him. Pulitzer wrote scandalous, thrilling stories. His rival was William Randolph Hearst. Hearst wrote for the New York Journal. He often tried to top Pulitzers headlines and stories. The two reporters often focused on  Cuba. Going on about the practices with the  prisoners  and about how there was blood everywhere. In fact they even made a comic about the practice of yellow journalism. It was called the yellow kid.
   The theme that yellow journalism represents is "Economics drove the expansion." Once again I don't know what they where expanding to but economics drove it. They wanted people to buy their newspaper. Buying things is drives the economy. Economy sounds kinda like Economics. Therefore, yellow journalism represents this theme.
 


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Fox News- History often repeats itself

   I have never in my life seen Fox News. My parents do not allow me to watch it. From what I have gathered though. Fox News is a modern day version of yellow journalism. Their reports, though based on what I have understood through their website and my parents, are real but told one sided. The stories are based on fact but only tell the side that makes Republicans look sweet and innocent. Fox News doesn't hold prestige. In fact now it is just a branch of the Republican Party.
    The theme that Fox News represents is "Economics drove the expansion." Expansion to where I am not quite sure, but economics completely drove it. They make sensational stories to get viewers, therefore money.
 

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Isolationism- Where we don't get invovled.

    Isolation is when we do not get involved with other countries. Because we are a country of following orders.  President Washington told us not to get involved because things could get ugly. So we Americans stood silently. Watching from the sidelines. God, I feel like I am in advisory, talking about STAND and stuff like that. I heart advisory.
   Isolation goes against the theme "Foreign version of Manifest Destiny." This is due to the fact that we did not go off and expand our so called "greatness" on the rest of the world. Instead, we just stood on the sidelines watching wars, won and lost. Of course after all that happened we took over.

Imperalism-

Imperalism is when a nation builds an empire by taking over political and economical control of people. An example of this is Napoleon, a fellow short person. But, that is besides the point. What I am getting to is that America stood as a bystander. We didn't do anything as France, England, and other countries made an empire for themselves. No, we took the advice of our president George Washington, who warned us not to get involved with foreign affairs.  Later in  time though, we looked back at the advice as more of... guidelines per say. We began to take on more of a foreign manifest destiny. This was after conquering the Manifest Destiny. We began to look at expansion into foreign nations.
    This is an example of the theme "Foreign version of Manifest Destiny." This is because the Western Frontier was  conquered.  We then spread to  foreign  nations  in order to look  like  we were expanding America's views. We had a duty to expand our greatness.

Alaska- Another place I will not go

   Alaska was the 49th state to join the union. We purchased it from Russia for 2 cents an acre. Even so it was still 7.2 million dollars. Which is quite a lot of money even though it might not seem it. Yeah, so if Alaska cost 2 cents an acre now, many rich people could buy Alaska. The man behind buying Alaska was Secretary of State William Seward. He was a strong advacate of US expansion. When he bought Alaska, some people thought it was a big mistake. Just a big, frozen wasteland. But, those people were wrong. Alaska turned out to be full of gold and oil. Silly Americans.

     Alaska represents the theme "Economic intrest drove the expansion." It represents this theme because Seward bought it beacause he thought it would be a jump in trade between Russia and America. As stated a lot in the past few posts trade = economics. So economics drove the expansion of the US into Alaska.

Open Door Policy- where the door is ajar

The Open Door policy was issued first in a message from the US Secretary of State. At the time that was Mr. John Hay. He wanted China to leave an "open door." Hay meant that he wanted to have equal trading rights between nations. Most nations responded by neither saying yes or no. Being neutral like Alex is in most things. In the end Hay declared that the "open door policy" had been accepted.

   The theme that this represents is "Economic interests drove expansion." This all Mr. Hay wanted was to secure trading rights for the US. As shown in a previous post trade = money. Money is economics therefore Mr. Hay is showing economic intrest in China. Therefore economic intrests are driving the policy of the government.


JUST IN CASE: I think I forgot to metion this before China is an amazing country


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The Spheres of Influence-

   China emerged from an unsuccesful war in the late 1800s. So the other countries decided to take advantage of China. That was really mean of them. I don't want to single out anyone but Japan and many European countries were ones that tried to take advantage. They forced sweet, innocent China to give them land and trade rights. Horrible, bad countries they were. They decided to split China into spheres of infuelence. Spheres of influence is where a country has power over a economics and politics.

     This is an example of the theme "Economic intrests drove the expansion." This is because the other countries just wanted free land and money. Woah it sounds funny to say free money. Anyway the expansion was just made up of other countries trying to take advantage of China's weakness. That is just like the foxes killing the little, hurt bunny.

Dollar Diplomacy- Diplomacy on the cheap

   Taft was a big proponent of dollar diplomacy. Dollar diplomacy was the idea that economics was the best way of expanding American influence. He used American businesses  and banks to invest in Asia (best continent) and Latin America. Dollar diplomacy led to Roosevelt's big stick. This happened when a revolution in Nicaragua. The US sent in troops to protect their investments. No, not the people, the INVESTMENTS. Shame on us greedy Americans.
   Dollar diplomacy is an example of the theme "Economic interests drove the expansion." This is because when Nicaragua was in trouble we went to protect the investments. THE INVESTMENTS!!!!!

Protectorate- a mix of Progess, tectonic plates, and decorating

Protectorate (n.)- an independent country whose policies are controlled by an outside country.Really, that does not sound like an ide that would work or is good. An example of one of these countries is Cuba. The United States forced Cuba to include the Platt Amendment in its new constitution. This gave the US the power to intervene in Cuban affairs. It also limited the powers to borrow money and make treaties.
   It is an example of the theme "Foreign version of Manifest Destiny." America put itself in charge of Cuba. This was America spreading the notion of greatness to Cuba. Now American expansion had spread to a foreign nation.

Queen Liliuokilani- The power of a name

    Liliuokalani WAS the queen of Hawaii. She was a strong supporter of Hawaiian Independence. Unlike her brother, she wanted to restore the monarchy and reduce the influence of outside nations.  Liliuokalani was also an advocate of many female causes.  These include, a female college, a maternity home, and a woman's bank.
    Liliuokalani shows the other side of " The American pursuit of freedom was seen as something that seemed to only apply to America." This is because American expansion was threatening the way she ran her country. Apparently the US went through with the threat because Hawaii became a territory of the United States.

Hawaii- A Place I Will Probably Never Go

Hawaii was the 50th state to "join" the union. It is made up of five little islands in the North Pacific. Hawaii is know throughout the world for its beauty, sunshine, and beaches. To the US it is known as a military base. The islanders used to live in peace, then we came. First, there were the missionaries trying to "convert" the native people. Then, after that didn't work out for us we started sugar plantations.
   Of course, being the nice people that we are,we thought that Hawaii should be ours.We got 50 marines to override the queen and set up a pro Of course, it's illegal to do this. so,  President Cleavland rejected a proposal to annex Hawaii. Later, President McKinley singed a treaty to annex it. Hawaii became the 50th state of the US.
    Hawaii represents the "Turner Thesis." This is because Americans wanted to "tame" the natives and bring Christian values to them. Also the space that Hawaii provided was the new frontier that America had conquered.


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