During the nineteenth and early twentieth century America went through many economic developments and experienced a tremendous population growth. Families who had control over their daughters and control over their social interactions and relations with men, slowly started loosing their power.

Working-class fathers could no longer support a family on their own. Therefore women were aloud to start working. Daughters started working and started experiencing freedom. Some daughters took advantage of their new economic power. They started staying out late, going to dance halls, and with the money they earned from working they bought themselves stylish clothes and makeup. In some cases they would move away from home. Parents were no longer able

Television influences how people see the real world around them. Television increases sexism. In many series women are home with children where as men are working and supporting the family. Today in the ¨real world¨ it is no longer like that. Now both the female and male are working. Television also seems to make the elderly look annoying, stubborn, sexually inactive and eccentric. In reality the elderly are wiser and that is something we never seem to see on television. On television everyone seems to be healthy and beautiful. The truth is in the real world that is impossible. By seeing this we feel we have to look the same way and also wear the same things they wear. When watching television there are many crimes and problems. In the ¨real world¨ there are 10 times less crimes and problems. By doing this young viewers start believing this is true and therefore start committing them. When it comes to jobs many people on television are lawyers, physicians, or wealthy business men. Television neglects jobs like farmers, factory workers, and small business men. These are some of the few jobs that most people in the ¨real world¨ end up with.

The attitudes of young women towards sex changed dramatically. Some were experiencing intercourse not because they wanted to get married, but simply for pleasure and adventure. Others exchanged their sexuality for evenings of entertainment, a meal, and a ticket to an amusement park. These girls felt that they had to repay these men, for what they had done for them by using their bodies.

When familiar methods no longer worked in modern urban environments, so

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