1980s

allow them to express their self-concepts. The lifespan refers to the period of life that occurs from birth to death. Lastly, the life space is the type of role that you take on in your life, for example: teacher, student or parent. According to Super (1980), these can affect your career according to which role a person is currently undertaking. For the purpose of this assignment, I shall discuss the part of his theory that covers the…

University of Oklahoma and was coached by Paul Ziert. That opened the eyes of many and made him a potential Olympic Athlete in the 1980 games in Moscow (“Bart Conner” 477). In his first year of competing at a college level, he lead the Sooners to the Big Eight Championships and the National Collegiate Athletics Association(NCAA). Bart was qualified to participate in the 1980 Olympics but decided it would be best to sit out due to the fact that he tore his right biceps. There were also large bone…

in the middle east threatened America’s supply of oil as economic growth also stagnated. A central part of Regan’s 1980 election bid was to lower marginal taxes across the board and continue the deregulation that had been started in previous administration [9]. The plan drew some critics from politicians at first but the plan saw widespread support from Americans, as he won the 1980 election by a whopping 440 electoral votes. Regan’s economic policies, largely influenced by the works of…

resulted in prison overcrowding causing the expansion of the prison system. Within the United States corrections system, there are several trends in which take place. Since the 1980s, the War on Drugs resulted in dramatic growth in incarceration for drug offenses. The numbers went from as high as almost 41,000 people in 1980 to 470,000 people in 2015. A significant amount of the U.S prison population is made up of people incarcerated on a drug conviction.…

This tendency is what Hoyle (1980) summarised as “restricted professionalism”. Teachers with restricted professionalism tend to be more ‘self-concerned’ and ‘task-concerned’ (Jongmans, 1998, p.465). Teachers’ concerns are generally divided into three categories: ‘self-concern, task-concern…

either in secret or overtly aligned ourselves with irregular forces and/or other nation’s forces for the benefit of our agenda globally. As defined it includes criminal elements, through history we have even aligned ourselves with those types. In the 1980’s we backed the contras in Nicaragua in their fight against the Sandinistas both militarily and financially. There is quite a lot of evidence indicating that we involved ourselves with cocaine trafficking in south and Central America to…

There were many people who were still financially struggling in 1980, but it was to no similar degree of the Great Depression. As always, it is human to not be perfect and there will always be those less fortunate than others. Critics believed that the presence of liberalism in the United States was no longer needed. One main reason that Liberalism is no longer needed is because it was constructed and had amended policies to help America during the Great Depression. Due to the business cycle,…

addicts, kingpins, and dealers, which provides a first-hand account of what experiencing said culture was like. An interesting idea that is discussed in the video is how the movie Scarface influenced the culture of young African Americans during the 1980s. In the movie, the main character, Tony Montana, emigrates to the United States in search of the “American Dream” and eventually becomes the leader of a drug empire in Miami. Because many young African Americans could relate to Tony Montana’s…

Chris Grecious, was a seven year old boy with leukemia. More than anything he wished to become a police officer. In the spring of 1980, with the help of U.S. Customs Agent Tommy Austin and the Arizona Department of Public Safety Chris’ wish was able to come true. Unfortunately, the boy was not able to stop criminals at the age of seven but he did receive a his own DPS uniform, a “Smokey Bear” hat, some badges, and he earned a set of motorcycle officer wings. When the officers returned to present…

In the early 1980s neoliberalism came to dominate the UK and US in terms of economic policy making. When Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Raegan came into power they believed that the solution to world debt was “free market and sound money” (Kiely, 2005). This theory involved very little involvement of the government, leading to less public spending and increased taxes. In the UK, this targeted the welfare state as benefit systems were tested and unemployment increased. First World countries, in…