Actions speak louder than words

domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2014

WELCOME TO THE EIGHTIES...!!!


Take a rollercoaster ride through the decade that made us! 

The ‘80s is not about nostalgia; it is about a decade of people, decisions and inventions that changed our future, told from the perspective of unknowing history makers who lived these iconic moments. It was 10 years of nonstop glamour, unchecked excess, ruthless ambition and explosive technological innovation that combined to produce the historic changes and global events that made us who and what we are today.

The fingerprints of the decade best known for Pac-Man and the personal computer are everywhere in our daily lives: The first launch of NASA’s Space Shuttle triggered a technological explosion in global communications that now makes our world-wide love affair with smartphones and the Internet possible; when Madonna rolled around on stage in a wedding dress at a music awards show, it sent shock waves through a celebrity-hungry world that can’t get enough of “Gangnam Style” and Lady Gaga today

   
Click HERE to see my class presentation





Suggested project: You can comment on the following videos.
  • The Cabbage Patch Riots were a series of violent customer outbursts at several retail stores in the United States, 30 years ago, in the winter of 1983. That year Cabbage Patch Kids dolls were released for sale in the United States, and every child wanted one for Christmas, causing a tremendously violent demand for the cute dimpled dolls 



  • We've come a long way as a society from believing that AIDS is a homosexual disease.We're still a long way from a cure. Here is (what is said to be) the first news broadcast on AIDS. This was before they even knew what they were looking at. 




  • Ronald Reagan's Address on the Space Shuttle "Challenger" Disaster - January 28, 1986
Click HERE to read the  formal speech




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