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batman !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1980
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The 1980s saw the continued rise of the blockbuster an increased amount of nudity in film and the increasing emphasis in the American industry on film franchises especially in the science fiction, horror, and action genres. Much of the reliance on these effect-driven blockbusters was due in part to the Star Wars films at the advent of this decade and the new cinematic effects it helped to pioneer.The teen comedy sub-genre saw its popularity rise during this decade.
The PG-13 rating was introduced in 1984 to accommodate movies that straddled the line between PG and R.

The film makers considered filming Batman entirely in Hollywood California but media interest in the film made them change the location to England. It was shot at Pinewood Studios in England from October 1988 to January 1989. The original production budget escalated from $30 million to $48 million. Filming was highly secretive. The unit publicist was offered and refused 10,000 for the first pictures of Jack Nicholson as the Joker. The police were later called in when two reels of footage about 20 minutes' worth were stolen. With various problems during filming, Burton called it torture. The worst period of my life!

Originally in the climax, the Joker was to kill Vicki Vale sending Batman into a vengeful fury. Jon Peters reworked the climax without telling Burton and commissioned production designer Anton Furst to create a 38-foot 12 m model of the cathedral. This cost $100,000 when the film was already well over budget. This movie was the bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!! BATMAN....

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marvel comics

marvel comics had anew comic of superheroes in the 1980s the comic was called the secret wars. in the comic all the superheroes come out.In 1978 Jim Shooter became Marvel's editor in chief. Although a controversial personality Shooter cured many of the procedural ills at Marvel including repeatedly missed deadlines. Marvel Universe's 25th anniversary in 1986.

Despite Marvel's successes in the early 1980 however it lost ground to rival DC in the latter half of the decade as many former Marvel stars defected to their competitor. DC scored critical and sales victories with titles and limited series like Watchmen Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Crisis on Infinite Earths John Byrnes revamp of Superman and Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.
In 1981 Marvel purchased the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises animation studio from Looney Tunes director Friz Freleng and his business-partner David H.

The company was renamed Marvel Productions and produced animated TV series and movies featuring such characters and properties as G.I. Joe Transformers Jim Henson's Muppet Babies and Dungeons & Dragons as well as cartoons based on Marvel characters, including Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. People still do movies from marvel comics and their still big hits...

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Ronald Wilson Reagan February 6 1911 – June 5 2004 was the 40th president of the united staes from 1981–1989 and the 33rd Governor of California 1967–1975.
Born in Tampico Illinois Reagan moved to Los Angeles California in the 1930s. He began a career as an actor first in films and later television appearing in 52 movie productions and gaining enough success to become a household name. Reagan left office in 1989.

Reagan's ability to connect with the American people earned him the laudatory moniker The Great Communicator. Reagan said I won the nickname the great communicator. But I never thought it was my style that made a difference it was the content. I wasnt a great communicator but I communicated great things. His age and soft spoken speech gave him a warm grandfatherly image.

Reagan also earned the nickname the Teflon President in that public perceptions of him were not tarnished by the controversies that arose during his administration. The combination of Reagan's speaking style, unabashed patriotism, negotiation skills, as well as his savvy use of the media, played an important role in defining the 1980s and his future legacy.
in August 1984, Reagan made the following gaffe as a way to test the microphone.

Historical Figure: PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN

RONALD WILSON REAGAN

FEBRUARY 6TH 1911- JUNE 5th 2004

Ronald Reagan was born to Jack and Nelle Reagan on february 6th 1911 in Tampico, Illinois.

Reagan had another older brother, aned Neil. He was nicknamed "dutch" by his father cause he supposedly looked like a "little fat dutchman" when he was born. Reagan's childhood was not the best a child should've had. He lived and witnessed how his father was an alcoholic and a dreamer. His father had been Roman-Catholic and his mother a member of Deciples of Christ. The reagan family was known to be democratic and have strong beliefs against racial and religious intolerance. After the death of Jack Reagan, Ronald's older brother, Neil took over his father spot, and Ronald which was raised in the church of his mother was more like his mother. In the course of time they would all participate in church drama's and acting activities. Life was hard for the three of them and their mother had to work hard to support them as a salesclerk and seamstress.

Ronald Reagan graduated from Dixon High School in 1928, where he played on the football and basketball teams, became president of the student body, acted in school plays, and wrote for the yearbook. In 1928 Reagan enrolled at Eureka College in Peoria. He majored in economics and graduated with a "C" average in 1932. While in college, he played football and was a member of the college swim team, joined the drama club, joined the debate club, worked as a reporter on the school newspaper, edited the college yearbook, and served as president of the student council. he also had some struggles to pay his college tuition with lots of hard work, he paid it off with money he'd saved up and scholarships he'd recieved.

After Ronald had graduated from college he went in search of a job. He wanted to become an actor but was a little too embarassed to tell his family so insted he went for something more easy. He decided to go find a job as a sports radio announcer. Before he went he'd told his mother, but had not told his father. He went to the city of Chicago to search for the job he wanted, but when he was there he got rejected by many radio stations because of his lack of experience. He went back home instead feeling given up and actually told his father and his father actually supported him and actually tried helping him out. After the long search he found a job as a radio sportscaster at WOC in Davenport, Iowa, for $10 per game and transportation expenses. By 1936, he was earning a salary with his recreations of Chicago Cubs baseball games and his sportscasts of Big Ten football. In 1937, he went to California to cover the spring training of the Chicago Cubs—and to meet a Hollywood agent, later apparently Warner Brothers was seeking a new actor to replace aan actor who'd died, and Reagan earned this spot. He took a screen test for Warner Brothers, and the studio immediately offered him $200- a-week contract. Later from 1937 to 1957 Ronald Reagan appeared in 52 films while working for Warner Brothers.In 1965 Reagan wrote an autobiography which he named, "Where's the Rest of Me?".

After having a record of a successful actor, around the time of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 Reagan had been a member of the U.S. Army Cavalry Reserve. He had also been a member of the army in the 1930's as well. He was still in the army for a couple of years until he went back to acting. When he returned, he met his first wife, Jane Wyman. they were married for a couple of years, and had a family but then they got divorced in 1948. After four years he married his second wife Nancy Davis, who he got married on March 4, 1952. They later on had two children.

In 1954, his film career had been over after struggling for a while. Reagan was then offered a unique contract by General Electric. The company hired him to narrate (and occasionally act) on its new program.

During his life Reagan also had a strong belief in politics, and had followed the democratic party. Later on Reagan joined the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1937, and became a member of the union's board in 1941 and their president in 1947. Reagan opposed the Communists and their allies and in 1953 he became a secret informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)where he reported on Communist activities in Hollywood. In the 1950's Reagan's politics view changed. he Associated alot with many republicans. He follewed nixon and when Nixon won the governor place in california, Reagan completely changed his views and became a republican.

In 1966 he was elected Governor of California and re-e;ected in 1970. later he ran for president of united states against Jimmy Carter and won 489 to 49. Three months after taking office he an attempt to killing was made by him by a gentleman name John Hinckley jr., he later recovered and returned to office.
during his presidency, he made legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment, and strengthen national defense. He worked on cutting taxes and Government expenditures.In 1986 Reagan came up with an income tax code, which made many deductions to millions of people with low incomes. With his foreign policy, you it can be said that there was struggles and that "the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity, and the goal of peace through strength seemed to be within grasp" (http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ronaldreagan/)
After Reagan had retired from presidency, he still ived a smooth life until he suffered for ten years of Alzheimer's disease and died at the age of 93 on June 5th 2004.

Scientific Discovery: ANTIDEPRESSANT PROZAC iNTRODUCED

ANTIDEPRESSANT PROZAC INTRODUCED

In 1987, the antidepressant Prozac was discovered and introduced in United States. It had been tested by the FDA and apparently they found the effects to be effective. This antidepressant had been succesful at the start by many doctors and psychitrists because in the previous year another form of drug was being prescribed (Thorazine) to supposedly help mental illness and depression. This drug was not succesful because many reports had found this drug to have many side effects, and the effects on the people were very different each time.

When this antidepressant, Prozac was introduced to the public, more like doctors and psychiatrists began to prescribe this medicine to patients whisc were depressed. As this drug was prescribed, it was very successful at first. Many patients claimed to be feeling"better than well" and they would become more socially active, and more outgoing. After two years of this medicine being out and discovered, pharmacies were filling about 65,000 prescriptions each month in the United States. Many people thought it was a very successful thing that had been discovered and introduced.

Couple of years after Prozac had been introduced, reports that many patients instead of feeling better and not depressed, emerged. Patients started feeling more suicidal while on Prozac. In the following years Prozac became a drug that was not really successful, and that many people saw as linked wit suicide.

FASHION of THE 1980's

FASHION OF THE 1980's

Fashion, what can we say about the fashion during the 1980's? You could see a group of teenagers with tight fitted jeans and loose shirts that draped one shoulder, or you could see another group of friends with leather jackets, fingerless gloves heavy makeup, and had the heavy metal style. or on a street, you'd se street dancers (hip-hop) with neon colors or clocks hanging of their necks, different styles, everyone had. Fashion was an important thing to many people during this time. Whether it was punk-rock, gothic-rock, vintage, hip-hop, etc. Everyone during the 1980's whether teenager, older, or kids had a certain style. Every year the fads would change but throughout the 80's era the style was impacting.

While in the era of 1970's men and women wore tight on the top and loose on the bottom, in the 1980's this style basically turned around. Shirts were loose and tight or tight-fitted pants. many men wore suits to show their wealth. Many brands of clothing became well known and worn a lot. from shoes, purses, clothes, fashion was important. Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Reboks, and many other well known brands. Some were influenced by new romantic movement, which inspired heavy metal styles.

So you may ask what was the clothing style? many significant fashion trends in the eighties included jean jackets, leg warmers, leggings, shoulder pads, headbands, pastel colors, alot of "ray-ban" sunglasses, ripped jeans, loose-fitted shirts, and neon colors, big earrings, fingerless gloves, high waisted mini skirts, parachute pants, Stretch-Stirrup Pants, leather jackets (especially "Members only" jackets), Add-a-Bead Necklaces, The Madonna Look, Acid Washed Jeans, The Preppie Look, Guess Jeans,Layered Socks, Wayfarer Sunglasses, Swatch Watches, Jelly Shoes (Jellies), Knit Square End Ties, Reebok Hightops, Princess Di Fashions - Chuck Taylors by Converse, Rolling: Sleeves and Jeans, Paint Splatter, Jumpsuits, and Baja Hoodies. Hairstyles was also a major part of the fashion. the main trend was-volume. Many people worried about the volume of their hair, and "teased" their hair to add volume, others just did spikes in their hair, depending on their style of clothing. Many people as well chose funky styles and dyed their hair to match their style. Others just had short hair or long, classy, vintage, punk etc. The 80's was a period of time were hairstyles as well as clothing style would be called strange. Surely the fashion during the 1980's was very important to alot of people. Even though the fashion was during the 80's today one can see that the 80's fashion has an influence on today's fashion.

LITERATURE PIECE

BY: JUDITH KRANTZ

Published: November 1984

Princess Marguerite Daisy Valensky is about a girl who lives spoiled and without no worries. Her dad is a prince and her mom a American actress. She goes to parties, balls, money and love. Men wanted her and women despised her. Her brother betrayed her and was left with no money. She moves to New York and decides to work to pay her sister's medical bills. The setting takes place in England and in Santa Cruz, California. The plot is she needs to decide whether to keep her identity safe or not in order to get money. The reason her brother betrayed her was by raping her and leaving her with no inheritance. Her dad keeps a secret from her which is she has a twin sister. He didn't want her to know because she had a disability problem and he felt disgusted by her. She must learn to accept the life she has, accept her sisters disability and learn to love and trust a man.

FUN FACTS

• It was later on made into a film

AWARDS WON

• New York Top Sellers list

IMPORTANT PASSAGE

"When Stash had recieved the telephoned news of Francesca's death from Matty Firestone, he had started to consider his options even as he booked the flight to Los Angeles. Almost immediately he realized that somone had to be told the story which had been, until now, kept absolutely secret from all the world. He needed help in managing the future and Anabel was the only person he trusted. During the few days that Stash was away in California, Anabel managed to find Queen Anne's School, the best home for retarded children in England, and make arrangements for Danielle to live there."

TELEVISION BY:BELEN

Television in the 80's

How would people entertain themselves in the 80's? Some would go outside and play. Some would play with there Rubik's cube. But many chose to watch TV. A lot included funny sitcoms, movies of all types, dramatic soap operas and cartoons. I think many thank who ever invented this device.

Popular shows were "The Cosby Show", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Married...With Children", "Rescue 911", "Roseanne", and "Different Stokes". There also was News shows that would let you know whats going on in the world. Other examples of the shows were "G.I. Joe", "M.A.S.H", "227", "The Jetsons", "The Golden Girls", "Seinfield", "Happy Days", "Growing Pains", "Baywatch", "Cheers", "Silver Spoons", "Murder She Wrote", and " The Twilight Zone".

TV was important because it would entertain many audiences. It would help you know when disasters would happen and helped you not be bored on rainy days. Some say some shows were educational and keep you up with the latest trends and music.

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Sandra day o cornor

Sandra day o cornor was in office September 25 1981 thru the day of January 31 2006. She was associated justice of supreme court of the united states. She was nominated by Ronald regan. Preceded by potter stewart and succeded by Samuel alito. She was the Arizona state senate majority leader she was in office from 1973 thru 1975. Sandra was born the day of march 26 1930 in el paso texas. Her political party was republican.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, O’Connor was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and took her seat on Sept. 25, 1981. O’Connor, 78, was born in El Paso, Texas. She received her bachelor’s degree and law degree from Stanford University. She was appointed to the Arizona state Senate in 1969 and was subsequently re-elected to two two-year terms.

Soon after graduating, she married John Jay OConnor III, a classmate at law school. She became the mother of three sons. O Connors opinions have helped define a moderate middle ground in cases testing the boundaries between religion and government judging affirmative action laws and determining a woman's right to abortion. Though she considered retiring in the 1990s O Connor is thought to have postponed her retirement because a Democrat was in the White House. She finally retired in 2006.

Stephen King By ilissa

Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. He lived in Wisconsin, Indiana and Connecticut, then he came back to Maine and stayed there. King lived with his older brother David brother and his mother Nelli Ruth and as for his father he had left them when King was two years old.Then While living in Maine, King experienced a tramatic event in his life, he witness the death of his friend when he was very young. It has been said that this is where King got his inspirations for his darker novels. Later on in life King went to Durham Elementary school, then graduated from Lisbon Falls Higd graduated inh School and went on to the University of Maine an 1970.

At first King had a certificate that allowed him to teach high schools, but could not find a job and decided to write short stories for magazines to make a bit of money. Around the same time King got married with Tabitha Spruce a fellow student from the University of Maine. King was still writing short stories for magazines but was now coming up with his new ideas for novels. Then King worked on his first draft for his first novel "Dream Catcher". Kings books were mostly all of horror and terrifying stories and when asked why he choosed to write these kind of stories his response was that he has no choice, that these ideas just come to mind and he writes.

In King's early novels were mostly about the pains and agonies of childhood, parental neglect and abuse like his stories "Carrie" and "Firestarter". Then later on, King's novels were mostly about the many different pains of adulthood and loneliness of older people. Like in his stories "The Shining", "IT", "Talisman","Danse Macabre", and the "Dark Tower" series. Also some of these were made in the 80's, like the classic horror movie "The Shining"and "IT"which were big horror flicks in the 1980's. Stephen King had also won numerous award for many of his books. He has won te Alex award, Balary award, Black Quill Award, 9 Bram Stokes awards, 5 British Fansty awards, The Hugo Award, The International Horror Guild Award, 5 Locus awards, 4 World Fantasy award, and the Golden Pen award.

The Fall of Berlin Wall by ilissa

For about 28 years the Berlin Wall stood, dividing up Berlin into two seprete ares which were East and West Berlin. The wall wasbulit in 1961, constructed by the German Democractic Republic. The wall was made to contain communisum from west Germany and to keep East Germans from escaping to west Germany, This wall stood for almost 30 years. Then on June 12, 1987 while giving a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, Ronald Regan challenged General secretary of communist party, Mikhail Gorbachev and said to him "Mr. Gorbachev open this gate, Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!" It was two years after this speech that the wall was torned down.

Then in August 23,1989 Hungary ha dtaken it's border defences with Austria and also 13,000 East Germens escaped to Austria from Hungary.Then a similar event happened in Czechoslovkia as well. These events were all setting up the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Then in September was when all the protest rallies began, protesters leaving the west chanted "We want out!" This started the peaceful revolution and had half a million of protesters had gather at Alexanderplatz in East Berlin to speak out, and these rallies began in September and ended in November of 1989.

Then during that time the New Krenz government was preparing the new law for travel restrictions for East German citizens. Then it was decided on November 9th that refugees could existthrough the crossing points of East and West Berlin. Then at a press conference Gunter Schabowski was going to give the news, but he was not fully aware of the updates of the disscussion so when asked about when the law went into force he said straight away, immediately without delay". This news spead all over and with no time thosands of East Berlins went to the border crossing and demanding the guards to open the gate. Since the guards couldn't take on the overwelming crowds they basically had no chocie and opened the gate and then the East Berlins finally greeted the West Berlins, which meant it was the end of the Berlin Wall completely. Then all was left was the demolition of the wall, which ended in November of 199, but only some sections and watchtowers remained as memorials and piceces of the wall were sold all over the world and this wall will never be forgotten.

LITERATURE FIGURE: DANiELLE STEELE

DANIELLE STEEL

Born: August 14th 1947

Birthplace: New York, New York

Danielle Steel was the only child of John and Norma Shuelein-Steel. During her childhood her parents got divorced when she was around seven or eight years old. Apparently her parents didn't want to take care of her and she was raised by many of her relatives and servants in Paris and New York. She graduated from school a little before she was fifteen years old, and in 1963 ahe was enrolled in New York's Parsons School of Design. Her dream was to become the "new chanel", but had to basically give up on it due to an illness of ulcers. She then enrolled at New York University, where she studied until 1967. After, when she was eighteen years old she married her first husband. After being married with her husband she became bored with her jet-setting lifestyle, and she was against her husband's wishes so she decided to find a job. Soon she was hired as a vice president of public relation and new business for Supergirls, which was a Manhattan public relations and advertising agency. Her job seem to look weak for the future so she decided to write stories. She wrote her first book (Going Home) and published it in 1973, when she was living in San Francisco. from there she started writing many more novels. Around 1977 she started also writing advertisemnts and poems about love and motherhood which appeared in Women's section of magazines. Soon after she married her second husband and this time they had alot more in common. Throughout the years up to the present she was successful in many of the novels she wrote, and although she as a lot of money, she lives a quiet life.

• Fun Facts:

-Best Known As: Author of the romance novels Jewels and Crossings

- in th bestseller list since 1980's

• Books written in 1980's:

-The Ring (1980)

-Changes (1983)

-Full Circle (1984)

-Secrets (1985)

-Family Album (1985)

-Wanderlust (1986)

-Fine Things (1987)

-Kaleidoscope (1987)

-Zoya (1988)

-Daddy (1989)

-Star (1989)

Michael Jackson by Ilissa

One of the most important musical figures in the 1980's was the unforgetable Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson was born on August 29,1958 in Gary, Indiana. He was the seventh of ten brothers and sisters. Michael's father Joseph Jackson organzied a band with four of his sons. Michael was later added to the group when he turned 5 years old because he had the ability to sing and dance. Then later he became the lead singer with his older brother Jermaine in the Jackson 5, and had major success along with his brothers.

Then in 1979 Jackson joined up with Quincy Jones who produced his first album "Off the Wall". THen in the early 1980's Jackson recorded "Someone in the dark" which the album won him a grammy award, in 1982. Then later on in 1982 Jackson relased his biggest top album Thriller, which was the best selling album of all time.Then later on in his career in 1983 he reunties with his brothers on a televison speical of the 25th Anniversity of Motown and where Michael performed Billie Jean and his Leandary signatue move the moonwalk, Which became a huge dance move in the 80's and everyone was doing. By that time he was getting more popular because Mtv constaly was showing his music videos, and then In 1983 Jackson was the biggest star around. Also was hired by Pepsi and did numerous commerials with them, but later suffered an accident while shouting a commerical and recevied 2nd degree burns. Jackson also sued pespi and got 1.5 million dollars which he donated to the Brotman Medical Center in Califorena.

Over the next few years, Michael made many major accomplishments. First in 1984 he went to the White house to recevie an award from Ronald Regan, For Jackson's support of the charities that help people with alcohol and drug abuse problem. Later that year he had also won eight grammy awards and he was in the Victory tour with his brothers, and then later donated 8 million dollars to charity. Jackson's other accomplishment was when him and Lionel Richie wrote the single "We are the World" in 1985 to help donate money to the poor in U.S and in Africa too. But then tradgic news happened to Michael in 1986, he was diagonosed with Vitiligo and Lupus, which made his skin exetemly sensitive to sunlight. But this did not stop Michael and he countined with his fame and career.Also Jackson was given the Soul Train Award in 1989 and was given the nickname by his former best friend Elizabeth Taylor and in that same year, ex president George H.W Bush awarded him the White House special "Artist of the Decade award".

For the next few years Michael had some huge stuggles and was in and out of courts in the 90's for child abuse allegations, also went through divorces but manged to be a father of three. Then Jackson was working on his last comeback Tour "This is It" but sadly did not live to complete that dream. Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 at UCLA Medical Center, his death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol that was given to him.This news stunned the whole world into shock. Even though he is gone no one will ever forget the great Michael Jackson.

Assassination of John Lennon By:Ilissa

On December 8,1980 it was one of the most tradgic days in the music world. John Lennon was assiassinated in front of his apartment buliding "The Dakota"n in New York City. John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were on their way home after they were done recording at the studio. As normal, there was always fans outside Lennon's home waiting to get an autograph because he would give autographs outside his home. But among them was Mark David Chapman.

Chapman had ideas of killing Lennon 2 months eariler in October but quickly changed his mind. then on December 8,1980 Chapman waited at the Dakota for lennon and handed him a copy of "Double Fantasy" (album of Lennon's) for an autograph. Then Lennon asked in a politely manner "Is this all you want?" Then later on when Yoko walked into the recepection area and Lennon right behind her, Chapman fired five-hollow point directly at Lennon. Lennon collasped inside the recepection room and he was shot on his left side of his back and his left shoulder. John Lennon wass then rused in a squad car to the Roosevelt Hospital.

When Lennon Arrived to the hospital he was pronnouced dead in the emergency room. The damage in his blood vessels around his heart were highly severe and also one of the bullets had strucked his aorta. Lennon died because he had loss 80% of his blood and because of hypovolemic shock. This news shocked the nation and the music world, one of the most important figures of music was dead. The day after Lennon's Death, Yoko Ono announeced that there was not going to be a funneral for John, and she had also had his body cremated.

Then days after the death of Lennon, Yoko asked his fans to have a silent prayer for ten minutes in central park. Over 225,000 people showed up at central park in New York City. Millions of people were devestated of this huge tradgy that had occur to the musican but they would never forget his unique music and determination for world peace. As for Chapman he is still in Attica State Prison to this present day.

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martin luther king official holiday

Martin Luther king was born the day of January 15 1929 he passed away the day of April 4 1968. Martin Luther king was the chief of spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination. Ronald Regan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed in 1986. . It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.The idea of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday was promoted by labor unions in contract negotiations. . The bill first came to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979. However, it fell five votes short of the number needed for passage.. The success of this strategy was cemented when musician stevie wonder released the single "happy birthday " to popularize the campaign in 1980 and hosted the Rally for Peace Press Conference in 1981. Six million signatures were collected for a petition to Congress to pass the law, termed by a 2006 article in the nation as the largest petition in favor of an issue in U.S. history. The federal legislation challenges Americans to transform the King Holiday into a day of citizen action volunteer service in honor of Dr. King. other places outside the United States where Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed with equal importance is in the Japanese city of Hiroshima under mayor tadatoshi akiba , who holds a special banquet at the mayor's office as an act of unifying his city's call for peace with King's message of human rights. Martin luther king fought for the rights of people he had a dream that everyone in the united states would be traeted equal and he achieved that dream he changed the lives of alot of people he opened their eyes. I believe that when martin luther king got assasinated people finaly opened their eyes and came to a conclusion that we should treat people all with same respect and equal rights.One of the quotes that he said was the time is 'always right to do what is right' he presented a speech to america and it was called i have a dream and it touched alot of peoples hearts.

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challenger disaster

The people that were involve in the challenger explotion were the seven crew members. their names were micheal j smith, dick scobee, ronald mcnair, elison orizuka. christa mcaliffe, gregory jarvis and judith resnik. this were the crew of seven that were in the space shuttle when it exploded. they passed away the day of january 28 1986. in florida they named 7 middle schools in named of each of the austronuts for the lost and memory of them. their remains were buried in the memorial in arlington national cemetery.

the event of the cjallenger explotion happened in 1986 january 28 at 11:39 am in florida. the the space shutter broke apart 73 seconds into space leading to thedeaths of the seven crew mwmbers. the day that they were suppose to launch was the day of january 22 at 2:42 pm but delays suffered by previous missin caused the launch date to be pushed back and they pushed it back to the day of january 28 because of bad weather.

That morning of the day that they launch the morning was cold it was about 31f the minimum temperature permitted for launch.
they launched into space and unfortunately while extrusion was taking place hot gasses would leak past a blo-by damaging the o-rings until a seal was made. they investigated they determend that the o-rings was directly related to the time it took for extrution to occur and that cold weather by causing the o-rings to harden. that day of the launch because that morning it was so cold it made the o-ring to not seal on time. the secong o-ring was not on right neither because the position caused the metal to bend. so the flame rushed into the joint.

LITERARY SECTION

Name: Judith Krantz

Birth date: January 9,1928

Birthplace: New York, New York

Born Judith Tarcher attended Birch Wathen school at age 16 . After graduating at age 16 she enrolled at Wellesley College. She had awful spelling and didn't write for 31 years. After that time phase she worked in magazine named "Good Housekeeping". Her second novel called "Princess Daisy" became a #1 seller and had them published in over 50 languages.

FUN FACTS

• She attended her college with 3 goals: to date, to read every novel in the library, and to graduate.


• She held the dorm dating record in college

IMPORTANT WORKS AND AWARDS

• "Princess Daisy"


• "Mistral's Daughter"


• "I'll take Manhattan"


• "Till We Meet Again"


• In 1980 one of her books (Scruples) was made into a television show
  
• In 1983, "Princess Daisy" was made into a miniseries on NBC


• In 1987, "I'll Take Manhattan" was made into a miniseries on NBC


• In 1989, "Till We Meet Again" was made into a miniseries on NBC

ONE WORK

One importabt work that Judith Krantz did was her ever popular book "Princess Daisy". Princess Daisy is abpout a rich spoiled girl who has parents who her dad is a prince and her mom a american loved actress. She lives day by day attending parties and balls. She later on realizes what work really is by moving to New York and working to pay her sister's medical bills. Thos book also turned into a mini series on NBC. It also was published in 50 different languages.

WHY SIGNIFICANT?

Jusith Krantz is significant because she was one of the first to began romantism novels. She wasnt afraid to write about what she wanted and thought. Judith was one of the world's best-selling novelists.

HISTORICAL FIGURE

Name: Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone

Born: August 16,1958

Birthplace: Bay City, Michigan

Madonna is the third of six children and her family is very religious. Her mom died at age 5 of breast cancer. Her dad later on married her stepmother, who was their maid at the time. She was a straight-A student, cheerleader, and disciplined dancer who graduated from high school a semester early. She earned a dancing scholarship to attend the University of Michigan. She later on moved to New York in order to further her dance career. She later was introduced to the head of vaudeville review in Paris to work as a showgirl by David Gilroy, who she was dating at the time. While in France she fell in love with singing and performing and joined a band by being the drummer and later on being the lead singer. In the 80's she formed many bands named "Madonna & the Sky","The Millionaires" and "Emmy". She decided to have a solo career and hired her own manager. A friend of hers wrote her first hit called "Everybody". After that she signed her first record deal with Sire Records. Her career began with the songs "Borderline", "Lucky star" and "Holiday". She also starred in many films.

FUN FACTS

• The nickname her father would call her as a child was "little Noni".
  
• She's related to both Gwen Stefani and Celine Dion.

IMPORTANT WORKS AND AWARDS

• 4 ASCAP Awards


• 8 Billboard Music Awards

ACCOMPLISHMENT

Madonna's accomplishment was being a pop icon. She wore many different outfits and hairstyles. Madonna was every girls role model. She started many different sexy looks. Fire example with the dirty blond messy hair look with the bow, layers of clothes on, tights and many accessories.

SIGNIFICANCE

Madonnas significance is she created her own style and music. She accomplished her dreams to be famous and successful. She is sexy, brave, smart and strong and changed the pop culture and entertainment.

Ronald Reagan Assassination Attepmt

Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt

March 30th 1981

Three months after the president Ronald Reagan took office, on March 30th 1981, he went to Washington, D.C. to give a speech. While leaving the Hilton Hotel, where he'd given the speech at, he was going to the car he was going to be taken to when he heard what he thought were "fire-crackers". He felt as if he was being pushed inside the limousine, by a secret agent. He soon realized he was coughing up blood and that he had a really sharp pain on his back. He got taken to the Washington University Hospital, and when he was finally under doctor care, the Doctors diagnosed that he had been shot, and would need an emergency surgery. The bullet, had struck one of his ribs, and then punctured his lung and lodged near his heart. During the time he was at the hospital he still mantained his humor, although he had been in critical conditions. A Couple of days after the incident, he was released and he immediately returned to office.

Turns out that the one that had shot, or tried to kill the president, was a young man of mid-twenties and was obssesed in killing the president, just to impress an actress, who's name was John Hinckley Jr. While in his attempt to aim at the President, Ronald Reagan, Hinckley was ten feet away, and fired six shots which shot James Brady, the White House press secretary, a Washington policeman, and a secret service agent, and as well the president. This guy had something wrong going in his mind. Luckily, he was captured short after the shooting. Which was as if he didn't think of what'd happen after he done the deed he was going to do.

After this incident, the security for the president increased, and the president was watched more carefully. This was good because then people like John Hinckley could not try an attempt like this again.