1980s

As the 1980s dawned, pop-influenced country music was the dominant style, through such acts as Kenny Rogers, Eddie Rabbitt, and Crystal Gayle. Crystal Gayle best known for her 1977 country-pop crossover hit, the jazz-flavored ballad, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". Kenny Rogers’s crossover success was important; his lush, easy listening productions and smooth croons showed that country stars could conquer the pop audience, if produced and marketed correctly. By the beginning of the '80s,…

shifted to the employer, the exception being those companies who have a monopolistic advantage. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, real wages in the United States fell through the 1980s and into the early 1990s, not recovering the average value in 1980 until the year 2000 (DOL, 1999). Since 1980, technology and globalization have given companies structure that is more horizontal. This is allowing for the subcontracting and outsourcing of production to geographies not affected by…

In the 1930s electronic television came onto the scene. Electronic television did not take long to grow in popularity. Electronic television became the main source of information and entertainment, replacing the radio. The 1950s was when television really started to get popular. Television was made up of four networks; CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont. NBC and CBS were the most popular television networks. The 1950s is sometimes regarded as the golden age of television due to the high popularity…

mysterious diamond shaped UFO in the sky above Texas. On the below video, one can clearly see the similarities between the UFO recently captured by the airplane passenger and the Alien Craft detected in 1980 (aka The Cash-Landrum Incident). Alien Craft From the Cash-Landrum UFO Incident On December 29, 1980, a family of three was driving home in Texas as they stumbled upon a massive diamond-shaped object hovering above the trees. Not only the light coming from the Alien Craft was bright but a…

The cultural industry is described by Adorno and Horkheimer (1977) as the standardisation of culture and cultural goods, attained through the manipulation of consumers, pseudo-individualism and commercial marketing in order to accomplish an economic and social status. Within Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory, there are three major concepts that have increased the development of the cultural industry and the behaviour of consumers, this involves discussing the transformation of use value to…

morning everyone. I am Julie and today I will be presenting to you the Chamberlain Case. I hope you enjoy it. Summary The disappearance of nine weeks old Azaria Chamberlain during the camping trip to Uluru captured the public’s attention on 17 August 1980. Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, claimed that she was attacked by a dingo between eight and nine pm. Unfortunately, her body was never found. The bloodstains on Azaria’s jumpsuit, which was found near the camping ground and the supposed blood in…

dramatically during the early 1980s. Many economists suspect that this downturn was due to Mexico’s state capitalism and import substitution industrialization. State capitalism is an economic system in which for-profit economic activity is controlled by the state. Import substitution industrialization is an economic policy that is based on the idea that a country should rely on local industrialized products instead of products garnered through foreign trade. Since 1980, direct government…

young girls playing, one is white and one is black. Today you would not take a second glance, but in the 1980’s that was not so common. In the short story Recitatif, by Toni Morrison, two young girls are brought into a shelter and become friends with a very conflicting relationship. Morrison wrote Recitatif to show that friendships can be stronger than the racial inequality occurring in the 1980’s. Twyla was put into the shelter because of her mom’s job. Her mom was a dancer and neglected…

scale reduced considerably the threat of potential new entry, especially when considering how costly it would be for competitors to copy their business model (Conner ,1991). Such strategy is related to the concept of ‘strategic capability’ which Lenz (1980) defines as a company’s capability of taking actions affecting its development in the long-term, whereas Stalk, Evans and Shulman (1992) strongly correlate capabilities with customers. The article is also putting in light how Wal-Mart…

struggles that still remained for African Americans during the 1980s. Moye also notes the white resistance movements towards the Civil Rights movements, and also how the middle and upper class white citizens of the county attempted to obstruct the desegregation of schools set in the Supreme Court’s Brown decision in 1954. Even though there are differences in the movements of the 1950s and 1960s compared to the struggles in the 1980s, there are still a lot of similarities in the way the black…