ust in case you weren’t feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of that 1. The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were 2. They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and did not 3. They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged. 4.
Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression. 5. There has been only one Pope. They can only really remember one 6. They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember 7. They have never feared a nuclear war. “The Day After” is a pill to 8. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
9. Tianamen Square means nothing to them. 10. Their lifetime has always included AIDS. 11. Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic 12.
Atari pre-dates them, as do vinyl albums. 13. The expression “you sound like a broken record” means nothing to 14. They have never owned a record player. 15. They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong.
16. Star Wars episodes look very fake to them, and the special effects 17. There have always been red M&M’s and blue ones are not new. There 18. They may have heard of an 8 track, but probably never have actually 19. The Compact Disc was introduced when they were 1 year old.
20. As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents. 21. They have always had an answering machine. 22. Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they 24.
The Essay on Cuban Missile Crisis and Cold War Assignment
... lost. This person knew about the cold war but only remembers a little of what was taught from ... show what the average citizen knows or remembers about the Cold War. During the interviews, I asked 3 ... crisis. This person did study the Cold War in school and remembered that the United States was trying ... that they did study the Cold War in school and can remember how controversial it was for the ...
There has always been VCR’s, but they have no idea what BETA is. 25. They cannot fathom not having a remote control. 26. They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony. 27.
Roller-skating has always meant inline for them. 28. The Tonight Show has always been with Jay Leno. 29. They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool. 30.
Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave. 31. They have never seen Larry Bird play, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a 32. They never took a swim and thought about Jaws. 33. The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII or even 34. They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.
35. They can’t imagine what hard contact lenses are. 36. They don’t know who Mork was or where he was from. 37. They never heard: “Where’s the beef?”, “I’d walk a mile for a 38. They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R.
is. 39. The Titanic was found? I thought we always knew where it was. 40. Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not 41. McDonald’s never came in Styrofoam containers.
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