ADV310: Introduction to Public Relations Chapters 1-5 Study Guide According to your text‚ what must PR be‚ especially in the age of social media? In the 21st century‚ even terrorists understood the impact of public relations messages and the reach of the world wide web to deliver them Get the media to address issues that would otherwise fail to receive the attention they deserve Thoroughly understand what PR is and is not. Public relations is a planned
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the conditions people in the United States faced; they worked towards protecting consumers‚ improving working conditions‚ and expanding democracy. Consumer protection was one of the goals many progressive reformers set to improve society. Many muckrakers like Upton Sinclair and his book‚ The Jungle‚ had exposed businesses for having unsanitary working conditions and reviled many problems. Factories were unsanitary; The Jungle told consumers details about the death and disease that reside in the
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Part A: Omnivore’s Dilemma is a scathing indictment of the industrial food system we’ve perfected over the last century. Michael Pollan is a prolific author and journalist and muckraker who concentrates his efforts on the food system and the environment. Omnivore’s Dilemma is his tour de force‚ with which he successfully deconstructs the food system into three principle food chains: The Industrial‚ Organic‚ and Hunter-Gatherer. Pollan begins with arguably the most important and certainly the largest
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• Rise of Unions o In response to powerful monopolies and muckrakers stirring up dissent‚ there was a rise of labor unions in the early 20th century. With immigrants and poor Americans flocking to the cities (see: Second Industrial Revolution)‚ factories had their choice of workers. They could employ women and children‚ who were cheaper to pay than men were. These poorly-paid workers were forced to labor in terrible conditions in textile factories and mines. Social critics referred to them as "wage
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hapter 27 Chapter 27 The Path of Empire 1890-1899 Imperialist Stirrings As America bustled with a new sense of power generated by the strong growth in population‚ wealth‚ and productive capacity‚ labor violence and agrarian unrest increased. It was felt that overseas markets might provide a safety valve to relieve these pressures. Reverend Josiah Strong’s Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis inspired missionaries to travel to foreign nations. Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan’s
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Unit 10: The Gilded Age Economic & social changes 1865 – 1920 Part one: The Last Frontier The Final settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West Historiography THE FRONTIER THESIS: Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History – July 12‚ 1893 1890 Census – no more defined frontier line; had pockets of settlement spread out Turner Thesis: spirit and success of US is directly tied to westward expansion; a turning point in American Identity American Identity:
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The Progressive Era‚ which lasted from 1900 to 1918‚ was a time in which the American government and its people aimed to improve their economic status and to correct injustices of their country. Here are the ten leading reform movements: 1. Civil Rights After the Civil War‚ some would have expected that racism would have stopped but unfortunately‚ that didn’t happened. Racism still existed in the American society in the stated era therefore civil rights organizations‚ most made for African-Americans
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down and prices high‚ which resulted in low wages and long hours. The working conditions were also not the best. Newspapers learned that they could make money off of releasing stories about industrialization abuse in America. Journalist known as Muckrakers would gather information and then expose businesses for corruption. Ida Tarbell was a woman who exposed Standard
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American progressive era‚ from 1890s to 1920s‚ is believed to be a period of societal awakening. Although‚ there is no particular date that could be mentioned to mark its end‚ yet people believe that it lasted for around 30 years. After the civil war‚ the rapidly developing American economy was facing hundreds of problems due to its structural weaknesses. The capitalist system came under severe criticism because of the prominent flaws in its basic structural composition. The issues like racial segregation
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usually to expose corruption‚ unfair and cruel conditions‚ and illegal business practices. Ida M. Tarbell helped usher in the Progressive Era with her famous series “The History of the Standard Oil Company”‚ published in 1904. The impact she and other muckrakers have made has been invaluable in the illumination and eradication of injustices in society. Born in Erie County‚ Pennsylvania in
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