Argumentative Essay On Newsboy Revolution

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When I read the prompt for this essay, the first example that came to mind was one of my favorite Musicals, “Newsies,” which is based off the real Newsboy strike in 1899.
The strike was a youth led campaign, triggered by the want of change in the way two major heads of the newspaper industry Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers compensated their child labor force.
Newsboys would buy bundles of papers from the companies for a set price, and then sell them on their own. Whatever they didn’t sell was their loss.
The strike began soon after Pulitzer and Hearst raised the price of a newspaper bundle of 100 newspapers from 50 cents to 60 cents. During the strike circulation was reduced 3 to 1, as the newsboys recruited more

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