You're an '80s child if...
1) Snap bracelets were always getting you in trouble at school.
2) You played with "My Little Ponies".
3) Friendship bracelets were ties that couldn't be broken.
4) You’ve ever read Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Babysitters Club, or Sweet Valley High.
5) You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".
6) You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween.
7) You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members.
8) You wanted to be on Star Search.
9) You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before he had
Plastic surgery.
10) Heaven forbid you wore one of those T-shirt rings or a scrunchi on one side of your shirt during your youth.
11) You were styling with your French rolled pants.
12) You wore multiple pairs of socks in the middle of the summer just so you could Be "hip"
13) You had puff painted your own shirt at least once.
14) You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on its butt. Cabbage Patch Kids! 15) You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout."
16) You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off"
17) You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power, and He-Man cancelled. 18) But the commercials in between were for Barbie and the Rockers and you knew all the words to all their songs.
19) You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours, back when they were new episodes.
20) You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
21) You hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future."
22) You know where to go if you "wanna go where everybody knows your name." 23) You wanted to be a Goonie. ("Goonies never say die.") "Yes!"
24) You remember Madonna in her cone stage.
25) You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince."
26) You even wore fluorescent-neon clothing...
27) You could break dance, or wished you could.
28) You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
29) You remember M.C. Hammer.
30) You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
31) You own any cassettes.
32) You owned a pair of LA Gear, Keds, or Converse tennis shoes.
33) You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlin or an ET lunchbox.
4. “My hunting hat really gave me quite a lot of protection…but I got soaked anyway…I didn’t care though. I felt so damn happy all of a sudden.” (Salinger, 275)
1) "that was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, i've learned, about how you can bury it. because the past claws its way out."
5. In the classroom, before going out, he hesitated a second… {Hesitation before making a choice}
“Bathes Roland (1977) “The explanation of a work is always sought in the man or women who produced it.” The values, beliefs and attitudes of George Orwell’s can easily be seen in the novel 1984, as no text is neutral. These values attitudes and beliefs are communicated in the novel through socio-cultural context and by the use of certain discourses, ideologies, and historical influences. The invited reading of 1984 is that absolute power is problematic as evidenced by a totalitarism regime.
Heavy metal in the 1980’s is hard to describe. Its static style did not change much from the 1970’s, but the lyrics, image, and theatrics took a step forward. Heavy metal had a huge impact in the 1980’s and there were many successful bands.
In 1981 MTV "Music Television" was introduced on cable television and revolutionized rock marketing. Just as FM radio had superseded the hit-oriented AM format, music videos, produced as mini-movie advertisements for songs, became essential to a performer's popularity. Early in the decade, the British group the Police was one of the first to combine a progressive sound with polished videos. The expense of producing videos and MTV's virtual monopoly made it difficult for experimental music to compete with the dance-pop sung by American artists like Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston, and Madonna, and the British groups Duran Duran and Depeche Mode. Nevertheless, performers such as the Irish group U2 and the American group R.E.M. emerged from their underground roots to enjoy enormous success. Now a few of the new genres of the 80's.
Music is an outlet to all aspects of life and culture is a significant way of forming people and the way they live. Although not always seen directly culture has an overbearing influence on the music that is produced and made popular. The political Climate of the early seventies was full of fire with issues such as Vietnam and constant protest throughout the county. Later in the 70’s the end of the Vietnamese conflict brought the rise of the Watergate scandal and Iran Contra. These issues swept headlines and ingrained people’s thoughts. Social issues also played a big role in the developing culture of the seventies. Protests and constant outbreaks about gay rights and women’s rights seemed to overtake the country in storm. Later in the Decade the social climate changed to a celebration of the Past and a can-do attitude. Political and Social climates had an overbearing influence on the attitude that was being developed throughout the seventies. This climate was also transparent in the music world of this decade. In the early 70’s music lyrics were being created that were representative of the popular method of protest and social change. Music is a common way of expression and during this time artist and groups took the most of their popular music by expressing viewpoints on present issues. In the mid to late seventies the birth of new styles that broke from the old seemed to dominate the music industry. These new types of music ranged from disco to television pop. The music of the decade represented the culture and was greatly influenced by events and beliefs of the 70’s. At this time in American history, music and life became closely nit. In the late 1970’s, national issues settl...
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I ran to the locker room, hoping to get there first before the rest of the girls. I liked a clean area to change my clothes, and when my peers came in the clean area I wanted soon disappeared under a heap of clothes and dirty tennis shoes. I quickly pulled on my shirt and skirt and changed my tennis shoes for my floral boots I wore constantly. I hurried to the high school entryway.
Of all the 1980’s films, that can be described as “Eighties Teen Movies” (Thorburn, 1998) or “High School Movies” (Messner, 1998), those written and (with the exception of “Pretty In Pink” (1986) and “Some Kind of Wonderful”(1987)) directed by John Hughes were often seen to define the genre, even leading to the tag “John Hughes rites de passage movies” as a genre definition used in 1990s popular culture (such as in “Wayne’s World 2” (1994 dir. Stephen Surjik)). This term refers to the half dozen films made between 1984 and 1987; chronologically, “Sixteen Candles” (1984), “The Breakfast Club” (1985), “Weird Science” (1985), “Ferris Bueller's Day Off” (1986), “Pretty In Pink” (1986) and “Some Kind Of Wonderful” (1987) (the latter two being directed by Howard Deutch). For the purpose of this study, “Weird Science” and “Some Kind of Wonderful” shall be excluded; “Weird Science” since, unlike the other films, it is grounded in science fiction rather than reality and “Some Kind of Wonderful” as its characters are fractionally older and have lost the “innocence” key to the previous movies: as Bernstein states “the youthful naivete was missing and the diamond earring motif [a significant gift within the film] was no substitute” (Bernstein, 1997, p.89). Bernstein suggests that the decadent 1980s were like the 1950s, “an AIDS-free adventure playground with the promise of prosperity around every corner … our last age of innocence” (Bernstein, 1997, p.1). The films were very much a product of the time in terms of their production (“suddenly adolescent spending power dictated that Hollywood direct all its energies to fleshing out the fantasies of our friend, Mr. Dumb Horny 14 Year Old” Bernstein, 1997, p.4), their repetition (with the growth of video cassette recorders, cable and satellite with time to fill, and also the likes of MTV promoting the film’s soundtracks) and their ideologies.
III. In my lifetime I have seen a lot of weird things and have had lots of
In the early 1980's, cyberpunk was used as a label to describe a new form of science fiction written by a group of five writers, which challenged the traditional genres associated with science fiction (Shiner, 7). SF used highly imaginative ideas to project scientific phenomenas, resulting in dreamy, stylized stories of space colonies and flying space crafts. This new science fiction was different, because it incorporated present global, social and technological situations to help induce the future of the world. It generated new outcomes for the future's high technological, society and global environment that would help categorize it into a specific form of writing known as cyberpunk.
Usually when people talk about the good old days they are usually referring to the 1990s. The 90s was a decade where society and the way of living had change into something flashy and original. The 90s was the golden age for America as great achievements would be made and technology would revolutionize. The 90s is the greatest decade in the 20th century for America because it was the birth of new technology and science, entertainment and pop culture were at its finest and, the accomplishments made in the 90s. These aspects are what shaped the 90s into the greatest decade in the 20th century.
1. Shoes – The practice is done barefoot, so leave your footwear outside the door.
2. If you have the means get reflective straps or hats. Don’t wear loose articles of clothing.