The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

and social assistance agencies, to help female victims of abusive men. These early shelters did, however, provide essential serv ...

Doppler radar Definition A system that utilizes the Doppler effect to measure the velocity of moving objects The development o ...

Michael Douglas was considered a likable, if light- weight, leading man at the beginning of the 1980’s. He had been famous for a ...

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Definition A drug use prevention program that educates children about drugs and way ...

Dukakis began his political career in local govern- ment. He went on to serve in the state legislature and to mount a failed cam ...

however, Dukakis looked comical and out of place. The photograph was used by the Republicans to fur- ther ridicule Dukakis. Duka ...

with unused furniture. The furniture quickly caught fire, and its protective plastic wrapping gave off thick, toxic fumes. Withi ...

drummer Roger Taylor, and lead vocalist Simon LeBon rounded out the main lineup through most of the decade. They were known for ...

at the same time as MTV, each aiding the other. Videos such as “Hungry Like the Wolf” and “Rio,” shot in exotic locations on 35m ...

The Attorney General’s Commission on Porno- graphy, also known as the Meese Commission, was formed to study the effects of porno ...

gunfire. Viewers were in such suspense over the sum- mer that the first episode of the next season made national news broadcasts ...

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École Polytechnique massacre The Event The murders of fourteen women by a misogynistic twenty-five-year-old man Date Decembe ...

years of life at the hands of his Muslim Algerian fa- ther. Few journalists ventured beyond these two broad explanations or cons ...

cre’: Idiosyncratic Insanity or the Misreading of Cultural Cues?” InEthnographic Feminism: Essays in Anthropology, edited by Sal ...

ERTA also changed the perception of the budget priorities of the Republican Party. Prior to Reagan’s presidency, Republicans had ...

cation their children would receive was a democratic right derived from the freedoms of religion and conscience, both of which w ...

through common patterns of development. ___.Values in Conflict: The University, the Market- place, and the Trials of Liberal Edu ...

has been seen as mainly the responsibility of local communities, with some support from the states. In the wake of World War II ...

Educational Achievement Data on educational achievement during the 1980’s provide some support for the view that American school ...

lems of the nation, problems that continued into the twenty-first century. Further Reading Caldas, Stephen J., and Carl L. Banks ...