.... by giving us graphic details and using “local characters”. Although Naturalism and Regionalism 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 ....

.... have, they share the same outlook of having individual freedom of expression. We will discuss the abstract expressionist style, and the influence that Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko had on expressionism. Who would ever think that a line or a color would trigger so many different conclusions to what message the artists were trying to relay? began as lyrical and as a remembrance of the past that ended up forcefully and boldly dramatic. “Basic to most abstract expressionist painting were the attention paid to surface qualities, ie., qualities of brushstroke and texture: the use of huge canvases: the adoption of an approach to space in which all parts of the canvas played a ....

.... news stories? This basic belief about the dominant mediums can be observed in what Postman calls the transition from the “age of exposition” to the “age of show business.” How much has our culture changed because of the shift in the medium? Postman argues that our culture is reshaped by its dominant medium of cultural conversation, and that the difference between the culture of a print based society verses a television based society effects intellectual tendencies and public discourse of all the people in the respective communities. The print based societies can date as far back as the conversations that took place as cave paintings or smoke signals up to the inve ....

.... regular society. Adult dancing parlors are denied to them. However, some people consider them just a place to hang out. Male adults just need somewhere to go out and fulfill some fantasies by seeing beautiful women dancing erotically. Most men already order erotic television shows and it does help keep marriages together. These adults would become better lovers to their cherished wives. Why can’t graduates have their right to fulfill their sexual fantasies? Should it not be included in the constitution. Casinos are a great money booster in some states. In Nevada all the touring comes from people who want to go to Las Vegas. They go to Las Vegas to gamble and see so ....

.... so , now that cable television has arrived in Australia. However with the system of networks as currently exists their are only a few program produces who determine what most of us watch and at what time of the day or night. This schedualing is important for the commercial television stations which rely on advertising revenues to exist. Television ads can be highly sophisticated and highly creative. Tremendous amounts of time and talent and resources are devoted to producing such images which are typically more expensive than programs. One of the gigantic swindles carried out on the public today is that commercial television is free. In fact consumers pay for the prog ....

.... percent of the national budget in 1970 to over 6 percent in 1995, while state expenditures went from 8.1 percent to 13.5 percent in the same time span. This increase can be attributed to multiple factors. First, through a series of mandates, the Federal Government has expanded the eligibility for Medicaid, requiring states to serve more people. They also increased the standards required of nursing homes. This led to higher nursing home costs which were passed directly back to the Medicaid program. The current average cost to care for a patient in a nursing home is nine times greater than that of a single dependent child. The price of medical care, in general, has drasti ....

.... entire universe. These invisible particles come together to form material objects, you and I are made of the same atoms as a chair or a tree. When the tree dies or the chair is thrown into a fire the atoms do not burn up or die, but are dispersed back into the vacuity. The atoms alone are without mind or secondary qualities, but they can combine to form living and thinking objects, along with sound, color, taste, etc... Atoms form life, consciousness, and the soul, and when our body dies there is nothing left of the latter except for its parts, which randomly become parts of other forms. Matter is never ending reality, only changing in its form. In the philosophical system d ....

.... a friend that goes to youth group with you at your church. Another person you can feel comfortable with no matter where you are or what the subject may be. It is important that you choose friends with goals. Kids who don’t care who they are or what they may become are very likely to become a prisoner and live a life of crime, Or at least a life sponging on their parents and friends. When choosing friends it is very important that you surround yourself with people of similar religious beliefs. By doing this your friends will share your conscious and you will have good, clean, fun when you are together. And a friend in Christ seems to always stay with you. Its also nice to ....