1980s

America’s 1970s, the decade nickname as the ‘Me’ Decade. It was a time to show your individual choice of outfit and color combination, expressing you and/or how you feel. And the viewer would also see the meaning and chooses the same style of outfit or oppose it. During this time, certain events like the Vietnam War, the protests for a group rights, and the uprising desire for a fitting ideal figure is an example that changed the way fashion represent its opinion in punk and glam look, the…

or falter even those distortions that occurred were for the worse. The senses of only focusing on one thing alone and never subject to changes around them then could represent solitude very well. In the second poem, “Keeping Things Whole” (Strand, 1980) was done in a first person perspective and it demonstrate the theme of loneliness as eternal solitude. In the first two stanza: In a field I am the absence of…

goods helping raise the Chinese industry’s output. This new system is effective in the industrialization of China. China’s GDP value was 191.2 billion USD in 1980 when the reform was introduced and GDP value rose to 360.9 billion USD in 1990. The negative effect of a Production quota is that it provokes significant losses to producers. In 1980 an ‘open door policy’ was initiated towards overseas trade and investment, with Special Economic Zones (SEZs) established in South and East coast province…

The United States does not have the highest nonmaritial birthrate of any country in the world. The United States has 4 in 10 births in 2009 were to unmarried women. However, compared to some countries. the united states has a low proportion of birtyhs outside of marriage. Two-thirds of births in Iceland and more than half of births in France, Sovenia, Mexico, Estonia, Norway, and Sweden are out of wed lock(138). Two perspective on the state of marriage in the United States are the martial…

on October 27, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. This act instituted mandatory minimum sentences for drug possession, to include marijuana. Public perception of juvenile criminals changed drastically during the 1980s. This perception changed due to fear from school shooting and other violent events. People believed the punishment handed out by the juvenile justice system was too easy. Because of this, state law makers made transferring a juvenile to the…

The 1980 court case, Armstrong V. Kline, drew from parents of children with exceptionalities becoming upset with the education system’s 180-day school year rule1. Beginning in January of 1980, they decided that enough was enough and they needed to do something before summer vacation came so, their child/children would not lose everything they learned during the school year1. The parents took on the court case, filing three class action lawsuits, all of which were against Caryl Kline, the…

The FARC had a two-pronged public component: public service and political participation through the Patriotic Union. By offering public services including education, health care, and other necessities that the Colombian government could not provide the FARC gained both legitimacy and following, drawing peasants and urban youth to the communal lifestyle espoused by FARC propaganda. The FARC acted like a state in some departments, especially in rural areas with little government presence. In these…

increased since 1980 to approximately 1989, it had a sudden drop to the lowest (almost 50) and started to rise after then and decreased gradually.…

in macroeconomics history. In particular I will discuss the similarities and differences between Keynesian and classical economics, specifically how each one handles issues of unemployment. I will also discuss what new developments, starting in the 1980s, have changed macroeconomic thought. Before the great depression of the 1930s, the classical economic views were what most people concerned with economics went by. This classical view was that unemployment would naturally take care of…

The movement of hip hop was not always in a negative light .it was perceived negative due to the fact that it "...Celebrates gang culture, talks in non- condemnatory terms about drug use, and is disrespectful of authority"(Johnson p25) In the 1980s "… The music industry was shaken up with the birth of gangster rap"(Giovacchini). The new form of hip hop “Before N.W.A came out, there was nobody out there doing gangsta rap,” (Young). N.W.A talked about their lives in Los Angles which was “reality…