Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Movies by Cynthia Pineda

MOVIES!!!!
Star Wars the Emperor Strikes Back came out and they where top hits. Like any other Star Wars movie it was a you must see movie. Still today Star Wars 3 hit the charts just like the trilogy When The Emperor Strikes Back. I am a fanatic of Star Wars and I know why in the 80’s the movie was a hit. They also had Back To The Future and E.T. and Ghostbusters and also Valley Girl. But there number one hit was Star Wars.

Music By Cynthia Pineda

While there are great new bands today, the music of the 80s will always be music we will never forget. It had artist like Madonna and Michael Jackson and Aerosmith, Live Aid, AC/DC, Blondie, Prince, Bon Jovi, Poison, Europe, Guns & Roses, and The Rolling Stones and many more these where the most that where listen to in the years of the 80’s.
The top song will be Bile Jean from Michael Jackson his album of Thriller was number one. Madonna was also heard a lot and her fashion was one of the best of the 80’s. Rock bands where the most heard in the 80’s and also pop. The Police and Dead or Alive, The Cure, ABC. And songs like Billie Jean, Come On Eillen, and Go! Also Good Thing, Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Boycott Summer Olympic By Cynthia Pineda (event)

In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, where as 80 countries sent athletes to compete. In early 1980, the movement toward either boycotting the games altogether or moving them out of the Soviet Union gained momentum. Calls for boycotts of Olympic events were not uncommon; just four years prior, most of the nations of Sub-Saharan Africa boycotted the Summer Games in Montreal to protest the attendance of New Zealand after the latter sent its rugby team to play against the team from apartheid South Africa. Within the United States, there was public support for the boycott. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution approving the decision to stay away from Moscow with a vote of 386 in favor and 12 opposed; the U.S. Senate passed a similar measure with a vote of 88 to 4.

Tom Clancy by Cynthia Pineda (literary)

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."


Author’s Name – Tom Clancy


Was born on April 12, 1947


Baltimore, Maryland


He wrote books and shorts stories.


Tom Clancy was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947, the son of a mail carrier and a credit employee. After graduating Loyola College in Baltimore in 1969, Clancy married Wanda Thomas, an insurance agency manager, and became an insurance agent in Baltimore, and later in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1973, he joined the O.F. Bowen Agency in Owings, Maryland, becoming an owner there in 1980. His poor eyesight made him ineligible for a military career, but Clancy maintained an interest in the military and researched various aspects of the armed forces and military technology. The ideas for several novels and main characters he wrote in the 1980s were formed in the late 1970s while he was conducting research. During this time, Clancy wrote in his spare time while working and raising a family, and in 1984, his first novel, The Hunt for Red October, was published by The Naval Institute Press, a noncommercial publisher in Annapolis


Graduated Loyola College in Baltimore


Became a insurance agency and wrote on his spare time, next thing you know it he became a writer


He wrote in the spare time. He also was a part of making video games.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Wayne Williams by Jessica Lopez (figure)

Wayne Williams was born and raised in Atlanta’s Dixte Hills neighborhood. For his living he ran an amateur radio station from his parent’s house. He was well known in the area for scouting local musicians particularly teenagers. He had his own personal beliefs which later on in life connected him to a series of murders. He resented and even hated other African Americans. He also had a bad reputation in his community of mating really impressive stories about himself that were not true. And before his conduction of the murders he was only arrested in 1976 but never convicted at impersonating a police officer.
His first became suspect of the murders when in 1981 a state out team heard a loud water splash and Wayne was later seen living the area. He became a suspect only because three days later a nude body of 27 year old Nathaniel Carter was found in the river. Later investigated Wayne became the number1 suspect of the murder because he failed a polygraph test, and hairs and fibers of one of the victims was said to belong to Wayne. He was later sentenced to two consecutive terms ok line imprisonments. And know 51 years old he still maintains his innocence.

Nancy Reagan by Marielos Sanchez

Nancy Reagan July 6, 1921 (1921-07-06) (age 87)Born in New Yorkshe pursued a career as a professional actress. She first gained a part in Pitts' 1945 road tour of Ramshackle Inn, then settled in New york city. She landed the role of Si-Tchun, lady-in-waiting , in the 1946 Broadway musical about the Orient, Lute Song starring Mary Martin and Yul Brynner, after the show's producer told her, "You look like you could be Chinese."Davis appeared in 11 feature films. Reagan was First Lady of California during her husband's two terms as governor.Nancy Reagan launched the "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign in 1982, which was her primary project and major initiative as First Lady In 1982, Nancy Reagan was asked by a schoolgirl what to do when offered drugs; Nancy responded "Just say no." In 1985, Nancy expanded the campaign to an international level by inviting the First Ladies of various nations to the White House for a conference on drug abuse.In October 1987, a mammogram detected a lesion in Nancy Reagan's left breast and she was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancerThe Reagans retired to their home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California in 1989. Nancy devoted most of her time to caring for her ailing husband, diagnosed in 1994 with Alzheimer's disease, until his death in 2004.. Just say no! Finally I know who this phrase derived from! I know everyone and there mamas have ever heard it before well now you know that it all started with Nancy reagan. I think that the substance abuse canpain that she has been doing for such a long time is truly great! She seems like someone I would be honored to meet. And since her husband died of Alzheimer's disease I think its great that now she is still active in helping stem cell research.  Important works In late 1989, the former First Lady established the Nancy Reagan Foundation, which aimed to continue to educate people about the dangers of substance abuse.[120] The Foundation teamed with the BEST Foundation For A Drug-Free Tomorrow in 1994, and developed the Nancy Reagan Afterschool Program. She continued to travel around the nation, speaking out against drug and alcohol abuse. After President Reagan revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994, she made herself his primary caregiver and became actively involved with the National Alzheimer's Association and its affiliate, the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois

John Lennon death by Marielos Sanchez

Give peace a chance!John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer, and songwriter who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history". Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and biting wit in his music, on film, in books, and at press conferences and interviews. He was controversial through his work as a peace activist and artist. Lennon was raised as an Anglican and attended Dovedale Primary School until he passed his Eleven-Plus exam.[19][20] From September 1952 to 1957, he attended the Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, where he was known as a "happy-go-lucky" pupil, drawing comical cartoons and mimicking his teachers.The Beatles: 1957–1970Awards!Double Fantasy, which would win the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the YearIn 2002, respondents to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted Lennon into eighth place.In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lennon number 38 on its list of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time" and ranked The Beatles at number one.also ranked fifth greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone in 2008.Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994When I asked my mom what she thought about john lennon she said “ the guy from the beatles that said they were better than God?” … if you don’t know who john lennon is your stupid! But here is what my mom was referring to… “ Lennon: "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a friend and I used the words "Beatles" as a remote thing, not as what I think - as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us. I just said "they" are having more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus. But I said it in that way which is the wrong way". Reporter: "Some teenagers have repeated your statements - "I like the Beatles more than Jesus Christ." What do you think about that?"Lennon: "Well, originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this".Reporter: "But are you prepared to apologise?"Lennon: "I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologise if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry". In my opinion I don’t think he meant anything by this.I think what he was probably trying to say was like the impact that the Beatles were having on the world at that time was unlike many had seen. Even to this day the new generations that are just now being introduced to the music like it. And I can say from my own experience that after hearing I found it peaceful, its different it has its own stile and it has meaning. that’s getting harder and harder to find in the music we kids listen to. But its nice to have a something to fall back on. But on another note john lennon was a peaceful and talented man that put out his message throughout his music and he damn straight was good at it. that’s why he is so significant up to this day!woohoo

Stephen King by Itzia Angel(literary)

Stephen King was born in Poland,Maine. He attended east Kientwook High School during his early years. when King was Two years old, his father left the family under the pretence of going to buy a pack of cigarettes, leaving his mother Torace King and his adopted older brother David by himself, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Liston High School in Lisbon, Maine. He displayed an early interest in horror as an avid reader of EC..S horror comics, including tales from the crypt he later paid tribute to the comic in his screenplay for creep show. he began writing for fun while still in school, contributing graticule's to David..S RAG. The newspaper that his brother publish with a mimeographs Machine and later began selling stories to his friends which were based on mobiles he had seen though when discovered by his teachers, he was forced to return the profits. the meant of his stories to be independently publish was "I was a teenage grace robber", serialized over three publish and Ane unpublish issue of a fanzine, comics review, in 1965. That story was published the following year in a revised form as "in a half world of terror" in another fanzine. From 1966 King study English at the university AF Maine, were he graduated in 1970 with a bachelor of science in English. He wrote a column for the student newspaper. The main campus title "Stephen King S. Gasbag truck", took part in a writing workshop organized by Burton hatlet and tool add jobs top at for his studies, including one at an industrial laundry. He sold his 1st professional short story, "the glass floor", To startling mystery stories in 1967 the fogle library at UMaine now holds many of King's papers.After leaving the university. King gained a certificate to teach High School

Oliver North by David Torres (figure)

Oliver Laurence North was born October 7, 1943 he is an American best noticed for a role Iran-Contra scandal. Right now he’s a political commentator. He has a latest book called American Heroes. He graduated in 1968 with the United States Naval Academy.
North had so much attention during the Iran-Contra affair the political of the late 1980s. Oliver was a National Security Council member. Oliver is married to Betsy North. He met her while attending the United States Naval Academy. They got married on Novemebr 13, 1968.

AIDS by David Torres (science)

In 1981 the first cases of AIDS were recognized among gay men.
However scientist discovered that AIDS was already in subsequent analysis of a blood. In 14 nations AIDS began to be reported in 1982. Early as 1982 CDC received the first report of AIDS in a person from a blood transfusion and in babies born to mothers with AIDS. From the American Red Cross most medical procedures blood transfusions has risk.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Toni Morrison by Cynthia Pineda (literary)


Toni Morrison is a noble prize winning American author, editor, and professor. She was born on Feb 13, 1931 at Lorain, Ohio. The second of four children in a working class family, she attended Harvard University in 1949. Morrison major was English. In 1958, Morrison married Harold Morrison a fellow faculty member at Harvard. She novels like “the bluest eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Paradise love, a Mercury” Morrison wrote all types of books from short stories, novels, non-fiction, plays, and even articles. Morrison has got many awards for most novels. Morrison had a Nobel Prize for Literature. Later in life taught English 2 branches at State University of New York. In 1984 she was an Alber Schweitzer Chair at the University at Albany. The state University of New York from 1989 until she retired in 2006, she held the Robert F. Goheen chair in the Humanities at Princeton University. Her work is so significant because not only did she inspire her students but everyone else who wrote her books. She enjoyed teaching it was something she did for fun, other than write Nobel Prize Novels.

Morrison was the first African American to top hold a name in an Ivy league University. Her sixth novel, "Jazz" was published in 1992 then in 1993 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work. She was the 8th women but was the first African American to every succeed.


Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Don Delillo By Erika Sanchez (Literary)

In the 1980’s there were many famous and talented authors. A well known and talented was Don Delillo. He was a novelist and author. Delillo was born November 20, 1936 in New York City. He was very intelligent and talented. Delillo graduated from Fordham University in 1958 and was an advertising copywriter during the early 1960’s. Since he was born he was meant to be a writer and he loved doing it. Some of the themes he would use were the excesses of consumerism. Mass culture and politics in American society.
One of his famous novel happened to be published in 1985. In 1985 “White Noise” was very famous. This novel was about death and technology. “White Noise” made Delillo wins his first widespread recognition. This well known novel tells about Jack Gladney a college professor who must deal with a toxic chemical cloud that threatens himself and his family. “White Noise” was a very interesting novel that made Delillo an outstanding writer.
This man was very goal achievement person. He had many novels as is known but some of his other novels were “Players” in 1977, “Running Dog” in 1978. “The Names” in 1982 and “Mao 2” in 1991 also “The Body Artist” in 2001 and “Cosmopolis” in 2003. As we all know and notice he has a lot of novels. But Delillo did not just have novels he also had short stories and plays such as “The Day Room” in 1987 and “Valparaiso” in 1999. Don Delillo is a great author and novelist that are very well awarded.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Computers by Cynthia Pineda (science)

On January 3 1980 Hewlett Packard introduces its HP-85. A microcomputer with 16kB of RAM and a 5-inch CRT display. This was the first personal computer invented. Also in the 1981 toward the end of the year Apple and Lisa and Mac was created. They also formed the first Microsoft’s Windows 98. Hercules and Labtec and Maxtor were found in 1982. In July 9, 1982 Disney releases a movie Tron and used a computer generated special effects. The Apple contains 64 kilobytes of RAM one megahertz 6502 processor and running Apple soft Basic and was sold for $1,400. By 1983 there were about 10 million computers in use just in the United States. On May 3, 1984 in Austin Texas the computer Dell was found. Also in 1984 the Yellow book of CD-ROM standards is written. Microsoft on December 9, 1987 introduced Windows 2.0. By 1988 about 45 million PC’s are in use in the United States. By 1989 the 53 inc. was found.
Every year in the 1980’s a new type was found but the ones who still are known today are Dell, Mac, and Apple and HP, which means they had a full success on creating a personal computer. That if the numbers where 45 million people now it must be doubled or tripled. Computers where a success, and was the best idea Hewlett Packard fist came up with. So thank you to him because if it was not for him and the rest for all the computers technology wouldn't be so amazing.

Some of the prices paid for computers in the 1980's
· Amiga 500 with Color Monitor $849 New York 1988
· Daisy Wheel Printer $289.00 New York 1988
· IBM PC $895 New York 1988
· Logitech Mouse $89.99 New York 1988
· PC 30 mb Hard Disc with monitor 512k memory $1,249 New York 1988
· Star NX 1000 Printer $189 New York 1988
· Tandy 1000 Computer and Monitor $999 Ohio 1985
· TRS 80 PC1 $149.95 Maryland 1982

Friday, May 22, 2009

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Itzia Angel (Event)

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in the Prince William Sound Alaska. On Monday March 24, 1989 it considered one of the most devastating human caused environmental disasters even to occur at sea as significant as the Exxon Valdez spill was it ranks will sown on the list worlds largest. Oil Spills in terms or volume released however Prince William sound remote. Location at 9:12 pm on March 24 bound for Long Beach, California. A harbor pilot guided the ship though the Valdez narrows before leaving the ship and returning control to Joseph Jeffery Harzelwood. The ship's master the ship maneuvered out of the shipping. Lane to avoid icebergs. Following the maneuver and sometimes after 11 pm, Hazelwood departed. The wheel house he left third mate Gregory cosigns in charge of the wheel house and Ablen Seaman. Tobert Kaga at the helm, both of whom not giving their mandatory 6 hours off duty before their 12 hour duty began. The ship was on autopilot so that the navigation system innately by the company which icebergs so the ships Hazewood, got permission from the coast guard to go out though the inbound lane. The ship struck blight reef at around 12:04 am March 24, 1989 beginning three days after the vessel. Ground a storm pushed rage quantities of fresh oil onto the rocky shores of many of the beaches in the knight island chain.

The ship was carrying 53.1 million U.S. gallons of oil, of which 10.8 millions U.S. gallons where spilled into the Prince William Sound. The first clean up response was through the use of a dispersant and sufactant and solvent mixture a private company applied on March 24 with a helicopter and dispersant buckerts. because their was not enough wave action to mix the dispersant with the oil in the water. The spill isolated in a reigion of the spill isolated from the rest by another explostion the test was relative successful. Readucing 113,400 liters of remo vable residue but because of unfavorable water no additional burning was attemted in this clean up. Thousands of animals affected died immediately, the best estimate includes 250,000 to as many as 500,000 seabirds at least 1,000 sea atters and approximately 12 river otters and 300 hardbour seals, and 22 orcas as well as the destruction of billions salmon and herring birds.

SF Earthquake by Jessica Lopez (event)

In 1986 largest earthquake to hit the SF bay area since 1906 and the most severe earthquake in California since 1952. This event occurred on October 17, 1989 at about 5:04 pm Pacific daylight time. It was calculated with a magnitude of 7.1. It lasted about 15 to 20 seconds. Leaving about 63 dead and 3,757 injured an over whelming 8 to 12 thousand people where left homeless. But a couple days later the number of deaths was created to 300 people due to a baseball game the earthquake accrued was the Oakland A's v.s. the SF Giants.

Destroying many buildings, homes, and bridges the cost to repair the city was 13 billion property damage. This became one of the most expensive natural disasters in United States at the time. With most damage occurring in San Francisco and Oakland major structural damage was around buildings, and freeways. The bay area bridge was also affected. Many fires due to broken gas lines were reported. Since the total 13 billion dollars to repair the damages was very overwhelming president George W. Bush singed a $3.45 billion earthquake relief package for California.

Event Airline 123 By Jessica Lopez (event)

The Boeing 747 st was an aircraft designed to use on short, high density routes. and since it was a lower fuel capacity its capable of carrying over 550 passengers. On Monday August 12 people in Kyushu in Japan did just that with 509 passengers for airplane took off flight headed to their destination to the industrial city of Osaka. Couple minutes later however to emergency transporter code appeared on their screen 7700 meant emergency squawk for aircraft in distress.
Trying to return the airplane back to the airport it was difficult to even try. Then the aircraft sutured and explosive decompression of its rear vertical tail plane, falling a 15 feet section of leading edge making all flying controls useless crashing into the lover slopes of mount Osaka killed all but 4 people on board. The cause was later determined to be an improper repainted rear pressure bulkhead when had been repaired by being a couple years before. This is the worlds worst accident involving a single airplane.

Mt. St. Helen by Erika Sanchez (Event)

In the 1980's there were many scientific discoveries but one of the main ones was defitenetly the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. This eruption was the worse volcanic disaster in the United Sates history. The date it eripted was May 18, 1980 at 8:32 AM. Mt. St. Helens is approximately 40,000 years old, a very active volcano. This volcano was fisr discovered by Eroupean when British commander George Vancouver spotted Mt. St. Helen from the mountain after his fellow contry man, Alleyne Fitzherbert, the Baron St. Helen.

Mt. St. Helen has had many eruptions geologic evidence say that Mt. St. Helens erupted around 1,600 and 1,700. 1,800 and during the 26-year span of 1931 to 1957 after 1857 the volcano grew quiet. On March 20, 1980 a 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck underneath Mt. St. Helens. This was an alert to scientist that the volcano had reawakened and was active. In March 27 small explosions occur clowing a 250-foot hole in the mountain and released a plume of ash. These kind of explosions continued to happen for the next month. In April a large bulge started to grow quickly pushing five feet a day. The buldge reached a mile in length by the end of April. The day had came and on May 18, 1980, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck under Mt. St. Helens. In less than 10 seconds the bulge and a surroundings are fell away in a gigantic rock avalanche. This creeated a gap in the mountain. This gap allowed was very bag that the noise was even heard in Montana and California. But those who were close to Mt. St. Helens didnt hear anything. This avalanche grew quickly in sizwe as it went down the mountain doing 70 to 150 miles per hour. This big blast killed everything in a 100 square mile area. In less than 10 minutes the plume of ash had reached 10 miles high. This eruption was nine hours long. Scientists and other who were caught in the area had no way out. 57 people were killed. They think about 7,000 large animals. This eruption felled entire forests. Mt. St. Helens is now only 8,363 feet tall and 1,314 feet shorter than it was before the explosion. This will not be last sruption from this very volcano.

New Treatment for Diseases By Jessica (science)

Research money allowed for studies to continue and new treatments for heart, cancer, and other diseases were found. Dr.Joseph Goldstein and Micheal Nrown were sponsored by the AHA were awarded the Nobel Price in Physiology in the research of the role of low-density protein receptors in controlling blood cholesterol's levels. This research provided new insights into the ways fatty cholesterol enters body cells and way cholesterol's levels may become high. This could cause heart disease.
Accordingly to save research clone but healthy bay news, women who received radiation treatment for breast cancer during the 1980's appear to beat high risk of getting heart disease. But even with this disease didn't stop the reaction for breast cancer. Only because radiation treatment has been proven in other studies to improve the chances of breast Cancers are survival!

Geraldine Anne Ferraro by Itzia Angel (Figure)

Geraldine Anne Ferraro was born on August 26, 1935 in New York who's parents wore Italian immigrants she was an American attorney and former of the Unites States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice President candidate representing a Major American political party Ferraro grew up in New York and became a teacher and lawyer. in 1974 she joined the Queen Country District Atourney's office.

When she heard the new special victims. Bureau that deal with sex crimes, child abuse and domestic violence. she was elected to congress in 1984, former Vice President and Presidential candidate Walter Mondale selected Ferraro to be his running mate in the upcoming election. In doing so she also became the only Italian American to be a major party national nominee. the positive polling receives when when joined him did not last until November ad they where deferred in an electoral landslide by incumbent president Ronald Reagan and Vice President George W. Bush.

She wan campaigns for a seat in the United States Senate in 1992 & 1998. Both times emergence as the from runner for her party's nomination, but she lost in the primaries both times. she served as a United States Senate to the United National Commission on Human Rights from 1993 until 1996 in the Presidential administration of Bill Clinton. During the Presidential elections of 2008, she served as a fun racier for Hillary Clinton. An uproar following controversial remarks Ferraro made about roles of sexism and race in the elections led to her resignation.


"I went from being the kid who lost his father at the age of 8 and who lived in South Bronx to almost going to line in the White House"
"That just tells you what this country is all about"

Ferraro, who will turn 70 in August and serves as president of the global consulting firm G&L Strategies. "That just tells you what this country is all about"

"All these phenomenal things. I want to focus on the fact that it is not me, personally, so much as it is the campaign and the candidacy, because I do think it made a difference for this country."

Literacy Beloved by david torres (Literary)


Beloved is a winning award novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel was based on the life and the slave Margaret Garner. The book refers to the estimated number of slaves who died in the slave trade. In 1998 the novel was made into a film with same name starring Oprah Winfrey.

Ronald Reagon Got Shot by David Torres (event)


The assassination attempt happened on March 30, 1981 with only 69 days of being president. While he was leaving a speaking in Washington D.C. President Reagan and three others were shot by John Hinckley Jr.Reagan was the first president to survive getting shot in a assassination attempt

Berlin Wall Event by David Torres (event)


Berlin Wall Event
The Berlin Wall was a barrier
circling West and East of Berlin separating them from the German Democratic Republic. The German border Split the border between East and West Germany. Both borders became a symbole as a Iron curtain between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc.

The wall split East Germany from West Germany for a long period of time. The day construction started was on August 13 1961. The wall opened November
9th 1989. In The 1980’s at least 98 people were killed trying to cross the Wall to get to West Berlin. More than 200 people were killed trying to migreat from East to West Berlin.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Sally Ride by Erika Sanchez (Figure)


One important historical figure of the 1980’s was Sally Kristen Ride. Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951 in Endocino, California. Ride was really good at playing tennis. She started playing when she was ten. Ride even won a tennis scholarship to West lake school for girls in Los Angeles. When Sally graduated in 1968 she attended Swarthmore College. After a couple of months Sally decided that tennis was not her thing and she was not good enough to become pro. So she put tennis in her past and enrolled herself at Stanford University.

When Sally was 27 already with BA and BS and masters degrees she was a PhD looking for postdoctoral work in astrophysics. She happens to read about NASA’s call for astronauts in the Stanford University paper. Thirty-five happen to be accepted, six of whom were women and Sally Ride was one of them. Ride joined NASA in 1977 and underwent extensive training. She really enjoyed flight training.

In 1983, Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on the shuttle challenger (STS-7) her next flight was an eight-day mission. In 1984 on challenger (STS 41-g) Sally Ride had more than 343 hours of space flight. She was preparing for her third mission when challenger exploded in 1986. The training was suspended so she was appointed to the presidential commission to investigate the incident. Sally moved to NASA headquarters in Washington DC there she was assistant to the NASA.

In 1987 Sally Ride retired from NASA and became a science fellow at the center for international security and arms control at Stanford University. When two years passed Sally was named director of the California space institute and was a teacher of physics at the University of California. Ride encourages a lot of women to study science and math. After all her achievements she has made she has received numerous awards and has written or collaborated on five children’s books. For all this Sally Ride is a very important figure of the 1980’s.