1980s

Essay question 1: In the video interview with Director Amanda Morgan speaks keeping with the 1980s theme of the original Heathers the Musical. Amanda Morgan used the dark and light lightening, so the audience could interpret the feelings that was taking place at that time. She used the red light once Heather Chandler had passed to let you know that she is no longer a lighted character. The bright lights were used at the end the whole cast was joyful and that bright light explained their…

he publicized his status making him lose secereal of his sponsors considering that HIV was considered taboo at that time. 17. Anthony Perkins. Anthony Perkins was most noted for his part in the 1956 film Friendly Persuasion. It was in the middle of 1980s when he learned that he was HIV positive. He tried his best to keep his privacy about the virus until his death in September 1992 due to AIDS related pneumonia. 18. Magic Johnson. One of the best basketball players of all time, Magic Johnson…

large amount of deposits of acid all over the atmosphere. This factor brought the attention of most environmentalists to come up with a resolution and decision regarding the policies and standards surrounding utilization of fossil fuels. In the early 1980s, large quantities of pollutants were carried to the atmosphere and became the acid rain that people experience on a day to day basis even until today. One should understand that this event, acid rain, occurs naturally over a period of time.…

This movie debuted in 1980 when the country was just coming out of a period where the nation had changed (Top News Stories from 1980). Equality had changed for all and a “New Right mobilized changing the home life. The role of a housewife had changed and many people’s faith in the federal government was shaken from Nixon. The country was changing and with it the influence of film on the world was too (Top News Stories from 1980). In the 1970’s the push for Women’s Rights was…

to mount quickly. This is known as asset-liability mismatch and many of these institutions had become insolvent or were close to it because of it, so the government stepped in with a solution that only further exacerbated the problem. On March 31, 1980 President Carter signed the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, which gave the thrifts the same capabilities as a bank without any of the regulations that typically surround a bank (FDIC). Another deregulation was the…

One aspect that could have hampered his growing popularity, is that his art did not follow current social issues that shaped the time. In the 1980’s and 90’s was a decade of change in the art world. There was a rise in cultural inequalities that was expressed with different medium and style. Along with this, there was the growing media exposure and the technology of the Internet (Allenchey). Lots of changes of social issues and media technical developments that Chia’s artwork did not confront.…

Another place that I’ve been to recently and admired its geographical landscape is Mount St. Helens. The eruption on May 18, 1980 caused a monumental change in its geography, altering it to a point where it was unrecognizable. The current landscape is a combination of both aggradation and degradation caused by the rockslide debris that displaced the water of Spirit Lake, producing gigantic north part of the lake. When the water returned to the lake bed, it brought with it trees and soil in…

To elaborate on this argument further, it will be necessary to highlight key contextual information. During the 1980s and 90s, significant changes happened to men. As previously mentioned, President Reagan, during the 1980s, aimed to bring back unambiguous and traditional male values, as he, and society, believed males had ‘gone soft’ (Boon, 2003; Vogel, 2015, p.464-465); and it is argued that males were unhappy and felt they lacked an authentic masculine role model within popular culture. As a…

Gorbachev came to power as the head of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and during his time in office he introduced a series of reforms which were seen to contribute to the communist bloc’s disillusion. His primary reforms were economic and political, but the policies associated with Gorbachev were glasnost (publicity, openness), perestroika (restructuring), uskorenie (acceleration) and demokratizatsaiia (democratisation). The reforms were so destabilising as the economic reforms were…

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