I am writting a paper on how personal tastes are  developed. The idea
is to use your own personal tastes and how they developed then be able
to generalize.I hope to show how tastes are sometimes a function of an
attempt to excape.This is a college level writting assignment and
would appreciate help.(answer must come by 6:00PM Sat)

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Request for Question Clarification by feilong-ga on 30 Nov 2002 06:50 PST

"I hope to show how tastes are sometimes a function of an 
attempt to excape."

Could you please elaborate on what you mean by this?

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Clarification of Question by maggie22-ga on 30 Nov 2002 09:41 PST

My thesis is that one motivation or use of taste is for escape from
ordinary life and today's society. I am exploring my own taste for
time-period literature and movies as examples to support this. I must
also analyze how my preference for time-period movies and literature
originated and developped. If you have any further questions please
let me know.

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Request for Question Clarification by bcguide-ga on 01 Dec 2002 11:43 PST

Hi,

You need this answer by 6 on Saturday. You posted at 5:53 on Saturday.
Could you please define which Saturday. Did you mean the day you
posted or December 7th?

Thanks,
bcguide-ga

I posted this as a comment since the time has expired and this is not
a complete answer. I had to literally read through a lot of materials
in an attempt to help you on your thesis. I wasn't able to finish the
research because I had to attend to a personal matter. I saw some
promising references that you can use. Here are the links:

://www.google.com/search?q=+%22an+escape+from+reality%22+personal&sa=Google+Search&cat=&hl=en

"I'm fond of the dramatic and fantastic. Some would call it an escape
from reality, whereas I refer to it as expanding reality through
imagination."
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hannes/personal.html

Transition of personal preferences from Legos, sci-fi fantasy books,
Dungeon's and Dragons, and to what next - I don't know.
Aaron Engel's Website or Another Escape From Reality
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~ajengel/escape.html

Other links that may be of help:
http://www.ifh.org/english/success2.htm
http://www.workingpsychology.com/intro.html

I hope this helps.

Feilong