1980s

Coming up to late 1990s, the United States had gone through an immense amount of economic and technological growth. With the rise of the internet, and the underlying stigma of convenience that revolves around technology, the United States’ capitalistic mindset has officially transitioned into a new era known as the information age. Synonymous to other time-periods where the standard of living rose, The 1990s going into the 2000s was a time of growth in terms convenience and comfort. With both…

opportunities, transportation routes and trade. During the mid 1980’s…

Since the cars of the 1980’s were not as innovative as cars of today, vehicles have definitely improved their style, cost, and safety, for current car buyers yearn a vehicle that is environmentally and economically friendly, rather than one that is trendy and toxic. Hence, the central distinction between two similar cars of different time periods, a 1985 Ford Escort and a 2015 Ford Focus, is that car manufacturers…

There were many major events in the Decade of the 1980s. One of them was the creation of Pacman. Pacman is an arcade game that was developed by Namco and created by video game designer, Toru Iwatani. The game released in Japan on May 22, 1980. The game was developed over the course of about a year, beginning in April 1979. Iwatani wanted to appeal a wider audience such as women instead of just men since very few games were played by women at all. Because of this, he added elements such as a…

Audrey Patterson Ms.Cooney English 9 23 April 2018 The American Dream in the 1980’s Research Paper Most, if not all people want to be successful today, and that wasn’t any different around 30 years ago. People in the 80’s wanted to achieve success by working hard towards their goals, or at least, that’s what my grandmother, Linda Patterson, believes. The 1980’s was a vastly different time from today, it had different strengths and weaknesses, different technology, and different models of society…

For the comparative visual analysis of 1980s artwork assignment, I decided to investigate Gran Fury’s “Silence = Death” and “Women Don’t Get AIDS” looking at art and theatre’s social and political activism and its impact on society. The 1980s were very critical for the AIDS epidemic and there were constantly new discoveries. However, thousands of people were dying due to the lack of accurate information being presented to the public and the slow development of medicine was detrimental to finding…

Chapter 3. The 1980s Trouble On The Oil Front, Then A Short Span Of Economic Improvement … In the 1980s, economic improvement in the US followed President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts and Paul Volcker’s defeat of runaway inflation. These achievements led to a fairly solid economy that lasted for a few years. By 1980, it was generally understood that price controls and minimum wage increases were not the answer. Thus, adjustments were made soon after President Reagan took office in 1981. Reagan…

better for teenagers back in the 1980’s because drugs are becoming more rampant. Being a teenager is the most unfavourable time of your life. To begin with, it is claimed that life is better for teenagers now than back in the 1980’s, but in reality, technology is now advanced. Which means cyber bullying is becoming more common. For example, cyber bullying can cause problems, which can lead to self-harm later in life. Cyberbullying was not really a problem back in the 1980’s but today it is.…

An expansionary policy Act signed during the 80’s that is still in place today is the Monetary Control Act of 1980. This Act consisted of 2 parts, which also includes the Depositary Institution Deregulation of 1980. Prior to the approval of this act, only the banks associated with the Federal Reserve were mandated to report deposits from the public and had a regulated interest rate, which placed them at a huge disadvantage due to the fact that the public was opting towards mutual funds in order…

When I registered for this class, I thought it was going to be easy peasy. I was so wrong! I was actually quite frustrated with the amount of time and effort I had to put into a freshman level communications class. On average, I would say I spent about 6 hours a week completing my assignments. This number slightly changed depending on the assignments due that week. After getting over my initial attitude, I tried to not let negative thoughts get in the way of my work. Throughout the…