When the media regularly focus public attention on violent crime, political corruption, or economic woes, they are engaged in which of the following?

Which of the following functions cannot be performed by state legislatures?

A. modifying and approving budgets B. representing local views at the state level C. performing constituency service D. making laws E. altering the U.S. Constitution

Which of the following statements is NOT true of realism?

a- realism favored non-fiction over fiction literature b- the civil war marked the end of American romanticism and the beginning of realism c-regionalism, a subgenre of realism, reflected the lives and language of people residing in different areas of the US d- realism reacted against romantic ideals.