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1990-1999 __Biggie Smalls __ Christopher George Latore Wallace, also known as the notorious Biggie Smalls, was an extremely talented American Rapper. Wallace was born at St. Mary’s Hospital, despite his later acquisitions of being raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Wallace grew up in neighboring Clinton Hill. He grew up as an only child, and was raised by only his mother after his father left at smalls early age of 2. This would be the result of his mother working two jobs, which would soon lead to Wallace selling drugs at the early age of 12. His mother didn’t know about the drug selling until he was an adult. Wallace was an excelling student at the Queen of All Saints Middle School, but lost that motivation when he hit high school. His mother said that he developed a “smart-ass” type mind set when he turned 17, and his violent behavior began to increase as his high school years progressed. He soon dropped out of high school and began participating in much more crime related events. In 1990 he was arrested for violating probation, and only a year later arrested for dealing crack cocaine in North Carolina. He was sentenced to jail for 9 months. After his release from prison, Wallace made a demo tape under the name Biggie Smalls, a reference to his childhood nickname and to his stature; he stood at 6' 3" (1.91 m) and weighed as much as 300 to 380 pounds according to a number of different people. The tape was made with no serious intent of getting a recording deal, but was promoted by New York -based DJ Mister Cee, who had previously worked with Big Daddy Kane , and was heard by the editor of The Source . Not long after being forced to quit from The Source for continuing to sell drugs to support his family, Wallace was picked up by LL Cool J, and Busta Rymes. His songs reached the Top of almost all Rap charts in the U.S., and continued this till his death.
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 * [[image:1362-2pac_1990_christian.jpg width="357" height="304" caption="Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in 20th century USA. He was born on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas Nevada.He became friends with a couple of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. Together this group of guys changed the music industry."]] || [[image:snoop_dogg_1990_christian.jpg width="344" height="311" caption="Along with Biggie Smalls, Snoop Dogg transformed the musical world of the 1990's by introducing a new modern form of song, dance and a way of life. which was called rap and still is today."]] ||


 * [[image:oprah-winfrey1.jpg width="222" height="280" align="left"]]**//__Oprah Winfrey __//** **//Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American television host, actress, producer, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She is the richest African American women in the world of the 20th century. She has also been known as the most influential women of the 20th century. Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, she claimed to be raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14. Her son died in infancy. Sent to live with her father who was a barber in Tennessee. Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place she launched her own production company and became internationally famous. Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication. Oprah is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show community. By the mid 1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. From 2006 to 2008, her support of Barack Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes. She recently had her last episode of her show, but is starting up her own tv network. //** ||


 * [[image:denzel-washington1990schristian.jpg width="370" height="306" caption="Denzel Washington is a very inspirational actor. He starred in many famous movies and was always the lead role. Denzel was a great role model to everyone in the US. Many childeren looked up to him, especially the African American community."]] || [[image:tom%20cruise%20no%20smile%20in%20sweater%20risky%20business.jpg width="316" height="302" caption="Tom Cruise was young in the 1990's but he became very famous in his many roles in TV shows and big movies. He was always a little bit crazy, but that is why he was such a hit with the public. He became one of the most popular movie stars of all time."]] ||

//**Bill Gates**//

//**William Henry “bill” Gates, also known as Bill Gates is one of the best entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Bill Gates was born October 28th, 1955 in Seattle Washington, to William H. Gates and Mary Maxwell Gates. His father was a prominent lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors for first interstate bancsystem and the United Way. At the age of 13 he enrolled to Lakeside school, an exclusive preparatory school. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in basic, and he was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates had graduated high school in 1973 and**// //**scored a 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT’s. Then enrolled in to Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. Gates did not have a definite study plan at Harvard, but he spent most of his time on the schools computers. The following year he saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Paul Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque New Mexico, was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair. Bill Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington State and made Gates President of Microsoft and the Chairman of the Board. Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, mounting creative differences undermined the partnership. Gates distributed an internal memo on May 16, 1991, announcing that the OS/2 partnership was over and Microsoft would shift its efforts to the Windows NT kernel development. Bill Gate’s role at Microsoft for most of its history was primarily a management and executive role. However, he was an active software developer in the early years, particularly on the company's programming language products. He has not officially been on a development team since working on the TRS-80 Model 100, but wrote code as late as 1989 that shipped in the company's products. On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his day-to-day role over the next two years to dedicate more time to philanthropy. He divided his responsibilities between two successors, placing Ray Ozzie in charge of day-to-day management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy.**//


 * Bill Clinton [[image:bill_clinton_1990.jpg width="210" height="262" align="right"]] Bill Clinton experienced highs and lows throughout his whole presidency. He was president during the longest-ever sustained growth of the American economy, but he also faced an impeachment trial. President Clinton's impeachment trial almost resulted in his removal from office; the American public gave the president low marks for his personal conduct but he also received very high praise for his amazing performance as the president of the United States. Mr. Clinton took office in 1993 during a very unstable economic time for the United States; the American economy was weak because of a huge federal budget deficit (the nation was spending more than it was taking in as income), and secondly, many relationships throughout the world were strained due to lack of payment from one to another and war amongst the same countries. Bill did a great job of bringing the US out the unstable economic time and into a very dependable and efficient time period. Besides Clinton’s great performance as president, he also had many issues with personal problems. These are some of the downfalls Mr. Clinton had during his presidency: He was the only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance, he had most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates, also had most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation, most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify, he was the first president sued for sexual harassment, he was the second president accused of rape, he had the first first lady to come under criminal investigation, was the first president to be held in contempt of court, had the greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions, had the greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad, and he was first president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court. ||



media type="youtube" key="x5jMey2omzg" height="349" width="425" The 1990’s was an amazing decade that was filled with many important events. Events that had huge impacts on the world of then, and in some cases, the world of today. These events affected our world politically, socially and culturally. There were many political situations that took place in the 1990’s such as the presidency of Bill Clinton. His presidency was interesting because he was both scolded and praised for his actions. Many feel he did a great job as President of the United States and still see him as one of our country’s greatest leaders. Others feel his personal issues got in the way of his work and took away from the stature of the USA in the eyes of the world. Another major event, which took place outside of the US, but still affected us in a large way was the election of Nelson Mandela as the President of South Africa. Mandela served as the South African President from 1994 to 1999. He represented much of what was happening in the 90’s; A little bit of war along with the growth of freedom and democracy all around the world. The 1990’s also had many social changes similar to the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. The 1990’s were a time of social reform. People liked new things and strived to obtain what they wanted. Technological advances took off, and new types of music along with new ways of living the “American Dream” painted a different picture of society. The 1990’s shaped the years after in a huge way because of all of the advances and new items that were developed in this decade. There were three specific technologies that stick out the most. They were the computer, the internet, and the cell phone. Before the 1990’s people lived their every day lives without any of these items, but after the 90’s, most people couldn’t live or work without these inventions. Culturally, the 1990’s had quite an impact. Because of the advances in technology, the American way of life changed. Those changes continue today. For example, before the 1990’s most people, especially kids, spent time outside. Now, with the ease of the computer, the internet and the modern game systems, Americans revolve their lives around the inside of their homes and not the outside. People communicate using a device rather than face to face. Music has always been a part of any culture, but in the 90’s, music experienced a significant change similar to the changes of the 1950’s when Elvis Presley came on the scene. The new type of music that was introduced was called rap. The main rap artists of the time were Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Snoop Dog and UNK. Rap music was the sound of the 90’s and gained an audience that has never quit listening. Rap is now part of the mainstream. The 1990’s was a decade of change and it really showed throughout the whole decade, and throughout every aspect of life. The 90’s was a very important time period in American History and what occurred during this point in time will continue to have a lasting effect on the whole world. ||
 * [[image:1990's.jpg width="344" height="334" caption="George H Bush was president during the Gulf War and in the early 1990's. He was the 41st president of the United States and did a great job."]] || [[image:nelson_mandela_1990's.jpg width="350" height="330" caption="Nelson Mandela was president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first president of the fully democratic, new South Africa."]] ||
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