8.TT.1.2

Keivonte Fisher 8th Grade Exit Project 2-22-12 The decade that will be described in this presentation is the 1990's. In this decade lots of events occurred that are very interesting. Lots of music, people, movies and different styles came out and history. Read this report and see all the good and bad things that happened in the 1990's The Hubble Telescope was launched in to space on April 24,1990. NASA named the world's first space-based optical telescope after American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953). Dr. Hubble confirmed an “expanding” universe which provided the foundation for the Big Bang Theory. The telescope was very big the length was 43.5 feet and weighted 24,500 pounds. NASA paid $1.5 billions to launch the telescope. In the summer of 1991 “Boyz N The Hood” was released it was a hood film. This film was written and directed by John Singleton. Starring in this movie was Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, Regina King, and Laurence Fishburne**.** This film depicts life in poor South Cenrtal (now South) Los Angeles California. It was nominated for both Best Director and Original Screenplay during the 1991 Academy Awards, making Singleton the youngest person ever nominated for Best Director and the first African–American to be nominated for the award. 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 sequel to the 1990 film Home Alone, and the second film in the Home Alone series. Home Alone 2 was written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern. Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Devin Ratray, Kieran Culkin, Gerry Bamman, Tim Curry, Rob Schneider, Dana Ivey, and Brenda Fricker were the stars in this movie. Eddie Bracken, Ally Sheedy, Bob Eubanks and Donald Trump make cameo appearances. The movie was filmed in Winnetka, Illinois, O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Miami and New York City (which was star Culkin's hometown at the time). The film became the second most successful film of 1992, earning over $173 million in revenue in the United States and over $358 million worldwide. Doggystyle is the debut solo album from American West Coast hip hop rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, released November 23, 1993 on Death Row Records. The album was recorded soon following the release of Dr. Dre's landmark debut album The Chronic (1992), to which Snoop Dogg contributed significantly. His musical stylizations for the album share similarity to those featured on Doggystyle. Critics have praised Snoop Dogg for the lyrical "realism" he delivers on the album and for his distinctive vocal flow. While recording the album, Snoop Dogg was arrested in connection with Phillip Woldermarian's death; he was tried and acquitted I n 1996. In 1994, Former football star O.J. Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas on Sunday in connection with a hotel room break-in. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson age 35 and her friend Ronald Goldman age 25, a waiter at the restaurant where she had just dined. Both were stabbed and slashed to death in front of her home in Los Angeles neighborhood of Brent Wood on June 12,1994. Suspicion quickly fell on Simpson who was arrested after leading police on a freeway pursuit in a white Ford Bronco it was broadcast live on U.S. National television. Simpson's trial was televised gavel-to-gavel he was acquitted by a jury in October 1995. the victims families brought a wrongful death suit against Simpson and in n1997 a civil court jury found him liable for the deaths. Simpson was ordered to pay the families $33.5 million in damages. Simpson, who moved to Florida with his two younger children has done little to satisfy the judgment despite years of collection effort by the victims families. Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated family/buddy film, directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. The film was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and was distributed by Buena Vista Distribution. It was written by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, and Alec Sokolow, and featured music by Randy Newman. It was the first feature film released to use only computer-generated imagery. The top-grossing film on its opening weekend, Toy Story went on to gross over $192 million in the United States and Canada during its initial theatrical release and took in more than $356 million worldwide. Reviews were mostly positive, praising both the technical innovation of the animation and the wit and sophistication of the screenplay. Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated film starring Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny (voiced by Billy West), Daffy Duck (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) and the rest of the Looney Tunes characters. It also features the debut of newcommer Lola Bunny (voiced by Kath Soucie). It was produced by Ivan Reitman, and directed by Joe Pytka (live-action), Tony Cervone, and Bruce W. Smith (animation). The film was released theatrically by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment on November 15, 1996. The film was also converted into a pinball game by Sega and a video game by Acclaim Entertainment. Batman & Robin is a 1997 superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to Batman Forever (1995), with George Clooney replacing Val Kilmer as Batman. Batman & Robin also stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Chris O'Donnell, and Alicia Silverstone. The film tells the story of Batman and Robin struggling to keep their relationship together. At the same time, they have to stop Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Bane from covering Gotham City with ice and vegetation. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the debut solo album by American musician Lauryn Hill, released August 25, 1998, on Columbia Records. Recording sessions for the album took place from late 1997, to June 1998, and were held mostly at Tuff Gong Studios in Jamaica. The album's lyrics deal with Hill's pregnancy at the time, the turmoil in her former group the Fugees, and also love and God, while it incorporates musical elements of R&B, hip hop, soul, reggae, and gospel. The album's title was inspired by the film and autobiographical novel The Education of Sonny Carson, and Carter G. Woodson's The Mis-Education of the Negro. The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving. It was first released in the USA on March 31, 1999, and is the first entry in The Matrix series of films, comics, video games, and animation.The film describes a future in which reality perceived by humans is actually the Matrix: a simulated reality created by sentient machines in order to pacify and subdue the human population while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Upon learning this, computer programmer "Neo" is drawn into a rebellion against the machines. The film contains many references to the cyberpunk and hacker subcultures; philosophical and religious ideas; and homages to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Hong Kong action cinema, Spaghetti Westerns, dystrophy fiction and Japanese animation. I have given a brief descriptions of the important and fun events of the 1990's to let you know that they have helped the world and used technology. "BEST FILMS OF THE 1990'S." Web. 21 Mar. 2012. <[]>. "FACTBOX: Facts on O.J. Simpson's Murder Trial, Acquittal." //Reuters//. Thompson Reuters. Web. <[]>. "Hubble Essentials: Quick Facts." //HubbleSite//. NASA. Web. .