1980s

is illegal and said person should be caught and pay an appropriate price for their maleficence to society. However, for every action, there is a reaction and that is not always positive. The 1980’s were a time where the “War on Drugs” was declared by than President Ronald Reagan (8). It was during the 1980’s through the early 1990’s were convictions related to drugs skyrocketed. It was also during this time where prison terms, if convicted, went from on average 48 months to almost 100 month…

to reference the history of the townsite. It is impossible to describe or relate the cultural environment and symbolism (vegetation) without first explaining the historical undertones that led to the establishment of the town (Rowntree and Conkey, 1980). Brigus was first settled in the early 1600s in concert with the nearby community of Cupids, and had a population of 35 in 1675 (Municipal Plan, 2012). Successive development led to residents raising livestock and maintaining fishing rooms on…

The growing of tobacco by humans was first started in 600-900 AD, The reason why this plant was grown was because the native indians smoked tobacco as a religious and medical purposes, In the 1700s tobacco plant was grown as a cash crop , it was .By 1800s people started chewing on tobacco and ocasionally smoking it in a pipe or a hand rolled cigarette.One of the most important dates for cigarette smoking was in 1865 where the first commercial pack of cigarrets were made by washington Duke.As…

aimed to support specific gender stereotypes. Analyzing the way advertising of Lego toys changed from 1980s to modern day, it is possible to trace the path of stereotyping in regards to gender. The audience can see how Lego advertisements have regressed from using gender-neutral marketing to gender-specific marketing through the use of gender-specific activities and colors. The Lego ads from the 1980s subvert the idea of cultural gender roles whereas the Lego commercials from modern day…

Globalization, in its modern form, came to Bangladesh in the 1980s with the expansions of the garment industry. Reaz and Jewel Garments, the first garment-exporting firm, was established in 1977, at a time when Bangladesh’s total export comprised of about 6.3 percent of its GDP (Ahmed et al., 2014; Rashind, 2006). In the 1980s, the South Korean firm Daewoo played an important role in the industry’s takeoff when it partnered with Desh Garments. Since the end of the MFA in 2005, clothing exports…

These metrics are important but a shift has been made towards understanding the perceptions of the employees when it comes to safety. In a 1980 article, Zohar Dov introduced what is widely known today as safety climate in which he drew off of previous research into the term organizational climate (Dov, 1980). Safety climate was defined as the “shared perceptions among employees in regard to safety policies, procedures, and practices” (Dov, 2008). Safety climate is what is…

Due to its status as the focal point of the cocaine trade, Medellin, Colombia, was dubbed the “most dangerous city on Earth” by TIME magazine at the height of the cartel’s power. It bore the highest homicide rate and was plagued by civil conflict, which set the stage for illicit drug trafficking to occur. Presently, it ranks as the 49th most dangerous city, and it is speculated by both the DEA and Colombian National police that more than 300 drug smuggling organizations are active within…

from being one of the poorest Asian American groups in the 1980s to a somewhat self-sufficient community at the dawn of the twenty-first century” (Pfeifer, Chiu, and Yang, p.5, 2013). This was a huge milestone for the Hmong because of how far they have come since settling in 1975. By the end of 1976 many thousands of Hmong refugees settled in the United States and peaked around 1980. There continued to be a steady stream of refugees from 1980 to 2000 when the Hmong American population grew to…

The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator is a small generator powered by a battery and it works by sending electrical impulses when it detects cardiac arrhythmias. The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was made in 1969, but was not used until 1980 by Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. at the John Hopkins Hospital. The intra articular arthroscopic shaver system includes “a rotating burr housed within a rigid insertion tube.” The shaver system removes tissue and cartilage from patient’s joints and…

subway opened in 1904 and became one of the most used mass transit vehicles (Young). Like any opening of a new place, there becomes this opportunity for crime to occur, but the true peak of crime in subways occurred in the 1980’s. For instance, just from the year 1979 to 1980, “crime on the subway rose 70%” (Feinman). At that time just in a week, 250 felonies were committed that affected passengers’ safety and caused the NYC subway to be called “the most dangerous mass transit in the world”…