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The 1990’s an innovative decade. Technology was starting to become popular; presidents changed the way we lived and wars were ended. For example, Internet was created. Internet is a large influence on the way we live. Now, people everywhere cannot function without the Internet. Jobs, assignments and games all involve the Internet. Also during the 1900’s Bill Clinton helped pass laws that helped the lower class to earn jobs and help them. Because of Clinton’s time in office, many people were able to have raised income and therefore were able to buy houses. These and many more were the reasons the 1990’s was an important decade.
Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton was in office from 1993-2001. After entering politics in Arkansas, he was voted into presidency. He was the first democratic president since FDR to win second term. During his time in office, he obtained the lowest unemployment rates in modern times, the lowest inflation rate in 30 years, highest home ownership, dropped crime rates and reduced welfare rolls. He also attempted to end racial discrimination. Bill Clinton also had many other great ideas like, upgrading education, protecting the jobs of parents who have sick children and to restrict handgun sales. One of the many things he did in the 90’s was open a nations oil reserve. This prevented oil company’s from raising oil prices too high. He did many other great things that are important to modern life. For example, he managed to get the lowest unemployment rate since the 60’s. He created over 20.4 million jobs under the Clinton-Gore administration.
Gulf War

The gulf war was known as the first live television war. The gulf war started July 17th, 1990 when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of stealing oil fr...

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...r systems would crash, causing world wide panic. People were now dependent on technology despite the people who believed that computers would be a sin that would bring us down. Computers are programed to recognize dates using the last two digits of the year. Since the new year was 2000, it would also be recognized as 1900. As the day came, not as many predicted problems happened. Only a few power losses, and temporary interruption of the receipt of data from the US network of intelligence satellites happened.
From my decade, I learned that technology has had a lot of improvement. For example, previously it would only be possible to use the phone or the internet. Now, many people can use laptops, computers, iPads, Phones and more at the same time. Bill Clinton also created jobs and had people buying homes. This is important because, previously, this was not true.

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