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The 90’s
Miranda MackeyEric Ellis
Caitlin Neighbors
Pop Culture• Some of the major
fads were as follows:– The Macarena– Viagra– Furbies– Boy Bands– Beanie Babies– “Was-sup”
Budweiser commercials
– Tomogatchi
• The slang in the 90’s was very different from today:– Dope =Great; Ex: (Yo, the
shoes are dope, girl!)– Gank =To steal; to jip.– Dead Presidents =Money.– Pigeon =Gold digger .– Salty =Angry; Ex: (Back
off yo, I’m getting salty.)– Let’s bone out =Let’s Go.
Pop Culture• The pop culture of the
1990’s covers a wide variety of sorts, including:– Movies– Music– Fashion– Television shows– World events– Memorable headlines– Other forms of
entertainment
Pop Culture• Similar to today, famous people in
the nineties got into trouble, which was broadcasted.
• The following tells a few of those stories that just so happened to all take place in 1993.– In LA, rapper Snoop Dog was
arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department in connection with a drive-by shooting.
– In Ohio, a woman claimed that the Beavis and Butthead carton caused their five-year-old son to set the fire that torched their trailer park home and killed his two-year-old sister.
– The LAPD was also investigating allegations that Michael Jackson molested a twelve-year-old boy.
Headlines• National:• The 41st president of
the United States of America was elected. George Herbert Walker Bush was elected over Ronald Reagan.
• He was inaugurated on January 20th, 1989.
• He entered office at a period of change in the world; the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Headlines• National:
– The election of Bill Clinton:• William Jefferson “Bill”
Clinton was elected 42nd president of the United States of America November 3rd, 1992.
• Bill Clinton ran against Republican candidate, George H. W. Bush, and third party candidate, Ross Perot.
• Clinton won with forty-seven percent of America’s vote, leaving Bush with thirty-seven point four percent, and Perot with eighteen point nine percent.
Headlines• International:• The "World Wide Web"
started up for home use. • Designer Gianni Versace
murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan, who takes own life in Miami.
• A Van Gogh painting sells for a world-record $82.5 million at auction.
• World Trade Center in New York City bombed by Middle Eastern terrorists.
• Iraq invades Kuwait.• Princess Diana killed in
automobile accident in Paris.
• Nelson Mandela freed from South African prison.
Literature• Popular literature during
the 90’s was:– Silent Night
By: Mary Higgins Clark– Dianna: Her True Story
By: Andrew Morton– The Guinness Book of
Records 1999– Childhood
By: Bill Cosby– The Sum of All Fears
By: Tom Clancy– Needful Things
By: Steven King– The Firm
By: John Grisham….and numerous others.
Music• The music from the 90’s was not
too much different from our music today.
• In fact, most people, if asked, will recognize many of these artists.– Phil Collins– Madonna– Prince– Sir Mix-A-Lot– Billy Ray Cyrus– Whitney Houston– R. Kelly– Backstreet Boys– Brittney Spears– INSYNC– Spice Girls
Prince
Billy Ray Cyrus
Spice Girls
Music• Top ten hit singles of the 90’s:
– “Baby Got Back”-Sir Mix-A-Lot– “Unbelievable”-EMF– “Macarena”-Los Del Rico– “Cotton Eye Joe”-Rednex– “Groove is in the Heart”-Dee-Lite– “C’est La Vie”-B* Witched– “Nothing Compares to You”-Sinhead
O’Conner– “Boom Boom Boom”-Outhere Brothers– “Everybody’s Free”-Baz Luhrmann– Do the Bartman”-Bart Simpson
Music• Top ten songs that Mom and Dad
hated:– “Baby Got Back”-Sir Mix-A-Lot– “Bump N’ Grind”-R. Kelly– “The Humpty Dance”-Digital Underground– “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)”-The
Offspring– “Informer”- Shon– “Let’s Talk About Sex”-Salt-N-Pepa– “Booti Call”-BLACKstreet– “Come Baby Come”-K7– “Justify My Love”-Madonna– “Losing My Religion”-REM
Music
Entertainment• Movies were a very
popular form of entertainment in the 90’s.
• Some of the most popular movies were:– Forest Gump– Scream– Fight Club– There’s something
about Mary– Dazed and Confused– Titanic
Fashion• During the 1990’s
the fashion trends were:– Belly Button Rings– Wide Leg Pants– Bell Bottoms– Bright Colors
• Trends typically came from Seventeen Magazine and Vogue.
• Also, a few trendsetters of the 1990’s were Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, and brands such as Victoria’s Secret.
Bell Bottoms
Bright Colors
Seventeen Magazine
Tyra Banks
Natural Disasters The following is a list of
some of the natural disasters that occurred in the United States during the 1990s.
Date
Type LocationFaciliti
es
1991
Fire California 25
1992
Blizzard East Coast 79-300
1993
CycloneFlorida &Louisiana
23
1994
Heat Wave
Chicago, Illinois
739
1995
FloodWashingto
n8
1996
FloodNorth
Dakota0
1997
Blizzard Northeast 30
1998
Heat Wave
Midwest 271
1999
TornadoOK, TX, TN,
KA 48
Flood
Transportation• The automobile was
the main “American machine.”
• In the past, people focused of a car design had style and speed, but in the 1990’s consumers were more interested in a car of safety and quality.
Transportation• In the beginning of
the decade, Chrysler, General Motors (GM), and ford were the main automakers.
• By the end of the decade, the Ford F-series pick-up was the best-selling American vehicle, followed by the Chevrolet C-series.
Communication• “Hundreds of
communications satellites circled the earth performing tasks undreamed of a generation before.”
• Palmtop computers allowed users to send faxes, page people, and check e-mail from wherever they were.
• Communication combined with technology transformed the world.
Scientific Inventions• Inventions:
– 1990: World Wide Web: Time Berners Lee
– 1993: Global Positioning System: United States Department of Defense
– 1993: Blue LED: Shuji Nackamura– 1994: Wiki: Ward Cunningham– 1995: V-Chip: Tom Collings– 1997: Non-mechanical Digital Audio
Player: SaeHan Information Systems– 1997: DVD– 1997: Wi-Fi: Alex Hills– 1998: Viagra: Nicholas Terret, Peter
Dunn (scientist), and Albert Wood.
Technology• Technology:
– The Capacity of computer memory continued to grow and advanced silicon ships were found in everything from toys to VCRs, and even automobiles.
– People received detailed directions and maps in their vehicles from GPS devices.
– In 1997, researchers in Edinburgh, Scotland created a lamb named Dolly, from a single cell of an adult sheep. They called this practice cloning.
– By 1998, more than 45 million people were wired into the World Wide Web.
Sports News• Major League Baseball:
– “Between 1984 and 1994, baseball had grown from a $600 million business to an industry worth almost $2 billion.”
• NFL:– In the 90’s there were a host
of football teams who won the Super Bowl.
– Though Barry Sanders never won any Super Bowls in the 90’s, he always managed to attract fans to his games. He was one of the most talented and electrifying players in the game.
Sports News• NBA:
– During the 90’s, the Chicago Bulls won six of the ten NBA titles of the decade.
– They were lead by the great, Michael Jordan.
• Boxing:– “In this decade,
boxing was something spectacular, not only because it had great fighters, but because it had Mike Tyson coming out of the 80’s with an undefeated record.”
Sports News
Changing Roles of Individuals and Families
of the 90’s• More females had jobs and
were supported by R&B groups such as TLC and Destiny’s Child.
• The new “in” or “fad” was being independent and not needing a man to take care of the bills.
• Economically the United States was on the rise with the Dow Jones reaching record highs.
• Oil and gas were discovered in many countries, leading to economic growth and wider adoption of trade between nations.
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