Desasters in the 1980s By: Susna Aguilar

The Terrifying Parade in June 12,1980 a so called Parade is marching aginst Nuclear weaponds, police have tried to stop this madness but they just cant seem to make it happen .More then 550,00 protesters from as far as Hiroshima rallied in central Park in New York city on to demang a nuclear weapons freeze in the biggest political demonstrarion in U.S history. But secretury of defense caspers Weinberg,indicated that large turout was likely to have direct impact on administratin policy

Murder over a pair of Tennis Shoes-In January 1988, In a shoe store a kid nemed Erick went to buy some tennis shose but eventually they were the las pair in the store so Allen wanted them to because they have been commercial with a famous athlete. the kids argued over who was going to have the last pair. and the 14 year old boy took out a knife n killed Eric just for a pair of shoes .

Stealth Technology By ilissa

In the 80's there was a new technology in the making, which was stealth technology. Stealth technology is a miltary tactic, that can cover a range of techniques with aircrafts, ships, submarines, missiles. Basically they are invisible to radars, infrared, sonar and other detection devices. Also the stealth bombers are designed not to be seen and are usually painted light gray for daytime and black for night time. Another thing is that these aircrafts are designed to be very quiet.

At first this technology was made because of the cold war and for espionage. Also all stealth technology was kept completey classifed. Till August 22,1980 the Carter Administration talked about the expansion of the Stealth program had given rise to numerous rumors and leaks. Then the U.S government officially admitted the existence of steath aircraft. Then the production started.

One of the stealth bombers built was the F-117A Nighthawk in 1981, but wasn't acknowledged till 1988. Then afterwards the B-2 spirit was made during the 80's. The B-2 was made in the Northrop Corporation and the Northrop Grumman in the United States. The Congress has ordered that 75 aircrafts to be made but went down to 21 in because the end of the cold war. As for the B-2 it had it's first public fight on July 17,1989 in Palmdale, California. This technology was a huge breakthough because it was a new way of espionage and was a remarable discovery for the uses of the United States Air Force.

ART iN THE 1980'S

ART IN THE 80's

During the 1980's art was very popular and important. There was many new styles of art during this decade. Many included pop art, other art works that were forms or influenced by graffitti Neo-Geo, Neo-Expressionism, Graffiti, and Appropriation . There were many artists during this era like Jasper Johns, Willem De Kooning, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella, Andy Warhol and PatrickNagel.

Graffiti, Was a big and popular for of art during the 80's. Many artists were in fluenced by graffiti and graffiti artists. Many graffiti artists came from a interesting background, and would usually start their career on the "down low". Many Graffiti artists started painting in the ghetto or poor areas of their cities. A lot of the graffiti art originated a lot in New York Suburbs. At first as still today, was not good, and there was a lot of restriction about this form of art.

During the years between 1985 and 1989 became known as the "die hard" era. Alot of the type of art that was associated with graffiti was thought to be related to gangs and violence and crimes. One famous graffiti artis was named Jean-Michel Basquiat, who started out by tagging locations with his signature SAMO (Same Old Shit). Another well known artist, who although did not exactly do graffitti work, did do a form of graffiti work which was influenced strongly by graffiti.

Alot of the graffiti was not what today's modern graffitti is known as. A lot of the graffiti, was pictures of stuff that represented someone or something aluable to people. in the 1980's alot of the graffiti was known as "... an effective tool of social emancipation or in the achievement of a political goal". Many of this art that was created, spread throughout the country. A lot of this form of art would be found all over, in major citieas like, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and cities like this.

This Form of art was and is very important because, graffiti throughout the years it has gotten better and better. Many people who practice and master this art, get many of their ideas from the past, and especially from the 80's. the art during the 80's was really significant, and will continue to.

Literature piece: A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

By: Shel Silverstein

Published: 1981

Published by : HarperCollins

Among Many of the books Shel Silverstein wrote throughout his career, A light in The Attic, was one of his best-selling books in the 1980's. This book is a collection collection of humorous poems and drawings, that was dedicated to Shel Siverstein's daughter "Shanna", who died at the age of 11 due to cerebral aneurysm on April 24, 1982. in this book all the drawings and poems are done by Shel Silverstein. This book had many things that many parents and adults complained and did not like for example the most known, one of the poems in the book, How Not To Have To Dry The Dishes was a contreversy among many people, and many complainde because it encouraged messiness and disobedience. Another poem, Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony led to more criticism for describing the death of a girl after her parents refuse to buy her a pony. many people thought bad of this book.

After a while of this book being published that the complaints were so much that this book was banned from some libraries because supposedly it promoted horror, violence, suicide, drug use, and cannibalism, to young children, and was not appropiate for young children. The light in the attic, is number 51 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:

-American Association: Best Graphic Illustrations
-Notable Children's Books of 1981 (ALA)
-Best Books of 1981 (SLJ)
-Children's Books of 1981 (Library of Congress)
-1981 Children's Books (New York Public Library)
-1981 USA Children's Books of International Interest
-Winner, 1983–84 William Allen White Award (Kansas)
-Winner, 1983 Garden State Children's Book Award (New Jersey Library Association)
-1984 Garden State Children's Book Award Center for Children's Books (Claremont, CA) -"Recognition of Merit" Award

Scientist Carl,Sagan By: Susana,Aguilar

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn New York .His Father Sam Sargan was a Russian immigrant garment worker his mother Rachel Molly Grubler a house wife. Carl was named in honor of Rachels biological mother .Chaiya. Clara in Saguas word The mother she never knew. Sagab graduated from High school in Rahway in New Jersey in 1957. He attended the university of chicago where he participated in Ryerson Astronomical society recived a bachelor of arts with general and special honors in 1954 he also recived a bachelor of science in 1955 and a masters in Astronomy.

Carl did much to populanze science,especially the wonders of space science, and helped develop critical thinking on the other hand during his early part of his career he made discoveries concerning the planets Mars and Venus. Sagan was one of the first to think that Titan,a moon of Saturn might have lakes and oceans and therefore it could support life. Sagn was a out of the box thinker. During his life time carl made big diffrences in the lifes of others he was the one who had great ideas of space.

In 1994, Carl was the first winner of the Isaac Asimov. Award, awarded for general contibutions to science and humanity.He also helped the committe for the scientific Investigation of claims of the Paranovimal with in other terms its the (CSISOP). It was a way for him to help other scientis he also by numerous TV appearances and writting books , Carl was able to explain this to general public science and space explorations were all about.

Carl was a great scientist in the 1980s he became known as the space wonderer he was all into science and he had awsome expectaions . he was happy with his career and with his knowledge . Carl was a diffrences and n insperation to other great scientists.

1980's CRACK EPIDEMIC

1980'S CRACK EPIDEMIC!

During the 1980's, there was a time where a lot of crack was being used. This time was known as the "Crack Epidemic". In the early 1980's, the area that was used to land their "Cocaine" was in Miami. Many drug dealers started facing issues that their business would go down, but then the drug dealers came up with what they thought was a solution. They converted the powder into "crack", which consisted of a solid smokeable form of cocaine, that could be sold in smaller quantities, to more people. for these drugdealers this was a very good profit because they could sell it for cheap and it was easy to find, ready to use when bought. This drug became well known in the areas of Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, and Houston. In some major cities, such as New York,Philadelphia, Houston, Los Angeles, Detroit, one dosage unit of crack could be obtained for $2.50. This drug was also very effective to many drugdealers because it was very addictive in a short period of time.

Crack first began to be used in Los Angeles in 1984. The distribution and use of the drug exploded that same year and by the end of 1986, and was available in 28 states from the United States. According to the 1985–1986 National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee Report, crack could be found in New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York City, Houston, San Diego, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, St. Louis, Atlanta, Oakland, Kansas City, Miami, Newark, San Francisco, Buffalo, and Dallas.

During the time that that Crack was being used a lot, there were many reports on people having to be in the hospital due to crack related cases. the number of patients having to be tranported to emergency room increased by 12 percent, from 23,500 to 26,300. In 1986, they increased 110 percent, from 26,300 to 55,200. Between 1984 and 1987, cocaine incidents increased to 220,800. Many people were using crack alot, even pregnant women. In Many Cases, starting in 1984 there was an increase in fetal death rates and low birth-weight babies to mothers who were using crack cocaine, especially in the Los Angeles Area. What's known as The first "crack babies" were born between September and December 1984. It was after many years that this popular drug was being used so much.

Although today many people still use this drug, and it's still dangerous, The Crack Epidemic is still remembered as something big that happened during th 1980's. this time was an impact to our society back then and even today because, many people saw how life was being wastedaway because of this drug, and many people were even born during this time,and actually survived.

"Noble house" by: ilissa

James Clavell is the author of the "Noble House" a popular book in the early 80's. This book is also part of Clavell's Asian Saga. The book was published in 1981 by the Delacorted Press and has over 1,000 pages long. There are also many characters, about a dozen in the story. Another thing about this book is that it has numerous plot lines. One more intersting fact is since the book was such a great hit it was made into a mini series in the late 80's.

In the story there are a lot of characters. The main characters are Ian Dunross, Quillan Gornt, Lincoln Barrlett, Casey Tcholok, Robert Armstrong, Phillip Chen, Roger Crosse, Brain Kuok, Four finger Wu, Paul "Proftiable" Choy and Orlanda Ramos. The setting of the story takes place in Hong Kong in 1963. The plot is about Ian Dunross who is trying to help trading company, Struan from financial trouble and trying to get help by having a partnership with an american investor. Also at the same time he is trying to deal with his arch-ememy Quillan Gornt, who has his own trading company as well and he is trying to ruin and put Dunross's company out of business. Also Dunross has to deal with Communists, Nationalsits, Soviet Spies in Hong Kong.

Along with that he has to face water shortages landslides, bank runs, and stock market crashes. If that wasn't enough Dunross also had KGB and MI6 on him because he had important documents that they wanted. But even with all that Dunross had to go through he still focused on his main goal to save the Noble House (The Strun).This book was the number one top selling book of 1981. The reason why was because this book had everything. For example in the story there was adventure, kidnapping, murder, finanical doublle dealing, natural catastrophes, mystery, and romance, it had it all which made the novel a huge hit in the 80's.