.... were constructed from the same , they each had different goals. Naturalism felt writing was a way to educate people about hard realities, so that change could occur. Regionalism sought to establish a common culture, such as cultural diffusion might accomplish. For instance, writings like these could educate certain groups about eachother. grew in this Country as a result of war and industrial hardships. Regionalism grew because of great improvements in transporation. Jack London, a Naturalist, lost his father at a young age and had to cope. He also witnessed first-hand, the casualties of the California Gold Rush. “Buck did not read newspapers, o .....

.... laughed out loud and shook his head. Then the conversation returned to normal and they kept chatting for the next 45 minutes. I then turned my attention to another table at which two Caucasian women in their mid thirties were seated at. The women like the men were drinking coffee and talking. They were at the food fair more for a quick visit than to eat while shopping. The women shared similar attributes, for example they both had short brown hair and wore dark clothing. One of the women seemed to dominant in most of the conversation. She was very expressive with her hand gesturing as well as her facial expressions. She raised her eyebrows and smile .....

.... Along with television, children may also be influenced by people they don't know. Although most children are taught not to talk to strangers, we would be surprised how many actually do. Studies have shown that both boys and girls do talk to strangers, but boys are more likely to do what a stranger tells them than girls are. A lot of young boys are easily deceived. Girls, on the other hand, are more cautious. Even when girls are young, they are still weary of trusting people they don't know. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule. Finally, kids are most influenced by their parents and their friends. Because friends and family .....

.... are trying to fight this problem. Others are ignoring it and hoping it will go away. Still others don't even seem to care. However, the facts are undeniable. The studies have been carried out and all the results point to one conclusion: Television violence causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long. The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to do so to not leave fingerprints and that he discov .....

.... their practices. Clear-cut attempts to bend the rules on the legality of slavery in documents like the Lecompton Constitution made some rationalizations look weak and rash in concept. With the South's slavery dependent and fragile economy, Southerners were ready to fight for their survival with whatever means were necessary. Proslavery whites launched a defensive against slavery which explained the "peculiar institution" as a positive good, supported, in fact, by the sacred words of the Bible and the philosophy of the wise Aristotle. The moral and biblical justification surrounding their belief that the relations between slave and man, however a .....

.... on punishing drug users, yet applying laws against committed drug crimes has not proven to be an effective solution. Drugs are still produced and distributed everywhere, and are taken by many. -- despite Obviously our focus is mid-directed. Because all types of people use illegal substances, pinpointing one specific group to “bust� is not effective. Recently, we have tried to track the location of drug use. We find places where drugs tend to be, and seek to close them down as an effort to decrease the overall use of drugs. This has proved to be an ineffective technique because it does not change people's craving for drugs. Reasons leadi .....

.... hazards created by the large number of vehicles on the road. Traffic accidents account for one of the major reasons that the current techniques of traffic control need revision. Traffic jams, along with broken cars and the lack of alternate routes, account for one half of the traffic congestion in the United States (Clark 387-404). Although the number of traffic accidents in the United States has slowly decreased over the past several years, it is still alarmingly high. In 1990, approximately 7 deaths occurred for every 10,000 people in the United States due to traffic accidents (Wallich 14). In addition, traffic jams also demonstrate the nee .....

.... broadcasters and the public of the dangers that viewing violence on television can have for children (Berry 78). Children and teenagers that watch a lot of television are less aroused by acts of violence than those children that don’t watch as much television. In other words, those children are less bothered by violence in general, and are less likely to see anything wrong with it. In a study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, children who watched a violent program instead of a nonviolent one were slower to see help when they witnessed acts of violence (Goodwyn 164). In another study at Pennsylvania State University, about 100 .....

.... was founded in 1966, women have been able to take a step up. NOW helped promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution and they are still continuing their efforts. Presently, women are supposed to have the same rights as men, but they are still often discriminated against. The numbers of women who have entered the work force has gone up sufficiently and they have obtained the same types of jobs as men, such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Unfortunately, women’s wages still don’t compare to men’s wages as they should. Often times, men are paid more money when they do the same job as women. Women a .....

.... fad. Others place it in the context of art, ritual or self-expression—they say it’s an act with cultural and social significance. In contrast, many people can’t understand why someone would choose to put so many holes in her body or cut their skin. They see body modification as self-destructive, much like anorexia or bulimia. I am a prime example of youth urge toward body modification. Below I will talk about why, what, where, and how people modify their body and how people look upon them. Youth and adolescence is one of, if not the most, significant and influential moments in one’s life, when youth are seeking their identity of who they .....