my topic for my research paper is the show called The Brady Bunch. The most important aspect of the show that you see in American culture today and in the past is that families are getting divorced or a single parent remarries and these large complex social families have to learn to meld together as a single unit. The large amount of personalities makes the show real to those who watch it because they have to learn to live together as a single family. Media manipulates many people in different ways from what you look like to how you act or dress. People are easily influenced by the different aspects of media and this show gives what I believe is a very positive atmosphere. The show shows the good things and the bad things but shows that everything can be overcome and be alright. The show just seems to bring a sense of how life should be lived and viewed.The main cultural issue that I will be expressing about in my paper is the aspect of family. Families have shaped the history of our country and is one of the most important things to have in your life. They help you with the good things and the bad things and pick you up when you fall down.

I think that the man reason that Chris cut himself off from society is because of all the hurt, betrayal, and pain that he felt from people; especially his family. This would be a reason for anyone to want to be isolated and alone. His role models, London,Thoreau, and Haines, were only human too and maybe if things in their life affected them as much as Chris then I could see them probably doing the same thing. The first thing people do when the world hurts them is to pull away and go to a place inside yourself as a way of protecting yourself. I have done this numerous times when bad things or hurtful things have happened to me. This is the one way your brain has of protecting yourself from the horribleness of things in life. I pretty much think that maybe his heroes had more to live for then Chris. Although I do not think that Chris meant to die, he was all alone with little food and he could have gotten out. I think that in a way maybe he did not have much to want to live for.