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In Your Lifetime Final Exam
=“In Your Lifetime” Final Exam= **In The United States** 1. On April 19, 1995 at 9.02 a.m, a truck in Oklahoma City had exploded in the street in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. An Oklahoma state trooper stopped McVeigh for diving without a license plate, and was then arrested for the bombing, and for killing 168 people. 2. On September 11th the twin twin towers in New York City were attacked and destroyed. It was said to be a series of coordinated suicide stacks by al-Oaeda upon he U.S. 9/11’s attack is a major event in the U.S and will never be forgotten. That day we lost 2,999 people, and 6,291 were injured, and 24 were missing and were assumed dead. 3. One of the reasons that terrorists attack the United States is because that they don’t like the way we run our government. 4. During Clintons Presidency there were accomplishments such as, there was the lowest rate of unemployment in 30 years. Unemployment had dropped more than seven percent in 1993 to 4.0 percent in November of 2000. There was more than 22 million new jobs. In eight years more than 22 million jobs were created, that was most ever made under single administration. More families owned stock than ever before. In the United States the number of families owning stock increased 40 percent since 1992. 5. President George W. Bush some of the accomplishments that he made were, he attacked and took over two countries, he spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury, and he was the first president to enter office in the U.S with a criminal record. 6. During the election in 2000 George W. Bush defeated Al Gore, the thing that was most unique about this election was that president Bush won with 271 votes, and Al Gore was right behind him with 266 votes. **In the World** 7. Mad cow disease is an infectious degenerative brain disease occurring in cattle, which causes a spongy degeneration in the brain, and spinal cord, and also causes red eyes. Mad cow disease can also be in humans but is then called Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease which killed 163 people in Britain, and 37 people elsewhere. 8. Mad cow disease scared comsumers of beef in England and in the United States because people thought that if they ate the meat that they would ge sick and possibly end up dying. 9. 2004 in Indonesia there was an undersea earthquake which killed more than 225,000 in eleven countries, with waves up to 100 feet high. 10. Galileo Spacecraft when it was launched had an orbiter and a probe, which made the journey to Jupiter until in July of 1995 the probe was released on a trajectory that guided it into Jupiter’s atmosphere on December 7of the same year. The orbiter continued on to enter orbit around Jupiter, on a series of encounters with the planet’s major satellites. 11. The first film generated entirely by a computer was Toy Story in 1995, and of course I have seen it, it’s like one of the best movies ever! **Technology** 12. The thing about the ipod that is significant is that it completely changed the way people look at music. Instead of having to carry around big boom boxes, and walk, men and big honky stuff like that, they can just take a small music device with you that can have all of your favorite music with you at one time, without having to change cd’s and stuff. 13. Windows 95 was sold in 1995. This made it possible to have a computer on your desktop. **Sports** 14. Brett Farve retired from retired from the Green Bay Packers in 2008, and came back and now plays for the New York Jets. 15. In 1997 the Green Bay Packers won the superbowl against the New England Patriots, with a score of 35 to 21.
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