In+Your+Lifetime+Final+Exam

1. On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murran building in Oklahoma City exploded. This was caused by a bomb that was contained in a Ryder truck, which was parked in front of the building and went off at 9:02am that morning. 168 people were killed, and hundreds more were injured.

2. September 11, 2001 was when the terrorist attacks occurred. The 9/11 attacks were a sense of coordinated suicide attacks. The 19 hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airplanes (hijackers) into the Twin Towers of the world trade center in New York City. The third plane was crashed into a field near Shanks Ville, PA. Everyone on board the planes were killed, 6,291 people were injured, and 2,999 total were killed. 9/11 occurred between 8:46-10:28am.

3. They attacked the world trade center, the pentagon, and the capital because the terrorists viewed those three things as unholy trinity, and the trinity was threatening their existence. The terrorists though that we (The U.S.) were stealing their wealth.

4. Three accomplishments of the presidency of Bill Clinton were -

○ Almost 6 million new jobs were created in the first two years of his presidency.

○ In 1994, the economy had the lowest combination of unemployment and inflation in 25 years.

○ As part of the 1993 Economic Plan, President Clinton cut taxes on 15 million low-income families and made tax cuts available to 90 percent of small businesses, while raising taxes on just 1.2 percent of the wealthiest taxpayers.

5. Three accomplishments of the presidency of George W. Bush were -

○ In December 2003, President Bush signed legislation that makes Health Savings Accounts available to millions of Americans. Health savings accounts offer flexible, affordable insurance options for small businesses and individuals.

○ President Bush has committed America to meeting the challenge of long-term global climate change by reducing the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output, or greenhouse gas intensity, by 18 percent by 2012 compared to 2002.

○ In 2003, President Bush announced the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year, $15-billion initiative to turn the tide in combating the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Just one month after Congress appropriated funds for the president's plan, $350 million was awarded to service providers for critical prevention efforts and to bring life-saving treatment to suffering people in some of the hardest-hit countries in Africa and the Caribbean.

6. In The 2000 election, George W. Bush defeated Al Gore. This election was unique because this was the third time in American history that a candidate won the presidency without receiving at least a plurality of the popular vote. It also happened in the elections of 1876 and 1888.

7. Mad Cow disease is a fatal brain disease in cattle that results in unsteady gait, nervousness and loss of milk production. The disease broke out across Europe in the late 1980s and 1990s, and was attributed to cattle feed that contained infected protein from ground-up sheep and cattle remains. It has never been positively identified in the United States.

8. Mad Cow disease scared consumers of beef in England and the United States because those were the two countries where they found cattle with mad cow disease. People were afraid to eat the beef because if mad cow was infested in the beef, and they caught it, the person who consumed it would catch the disease and die.

9. The natural disaster that struck Indonesia in 2004 was The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake. This event occurred on December 26, 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing more than 225,000 people in eleven countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (100 feet) high. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.

10. In 1995, the Galileo Spacecraft was sent out to space by NASA to study the planet Jupiter. A little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34, in December of 1995.

11. The first film generated entirely by a computer was Toy Story. OF COURSE I’ve seen it, and I actually think it was the most amazing movie I’ve ever seen (:

12. An ipod is significant because you can store thousands of songs on it, and carry it around with you, and just slip it in your pocket and not even notice it’s there. It’s almost like carrying around your computer, except in an ipod form. The ipod has changed music because now that there’s ipod’s and itunes, there’s no need to go out and buy albums and cd’s from the music stores anymore. You’re able to just download full length songs and albums right form your computer - for cheaper too. Plus you can store all of your songs on your computer, ipod, or a USB drive.

13. The operating system that was sold by Microsoft in 1995 was Windows 95. It changed personal computing because it let the individual programs interact better, and expanded researching.

14. Brett Farve retired from the Green Bay Packers in 2008. It was quite sad.

15. In 1997, the packers made it to the Super Bowl, but in a tragic ending, lost.