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1980's Topics 8th Period Fashion, fads, and faux pas of 1980s Givi G. INSERT MULTIMEDIA OF YOUR TOPIC--BOTH ASSOCIATION AND INDIVIDUAL Imbed Photos (click FILE), Video (click Widget); Make a Glog (Instructions for Glog); media type="custom" key="12960402" width="109" height="109" Task One--DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC ---Due Monday, March 12th Each topic includes an association (movement) and an individual. **PROMPT: Explain the achievements associated with both parts of your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1980s. Explain the relationship between the individual and the association or movement.** Please write **__two__extended** power paragraphs to address the above question. **Each paragraph** should meet the following expectations:

**Task One Rubric **
 * Support the main idea in each paragraph with evidence from a minimum of  3  credible sources,
 * Select only signed sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * Credit sources with internal citations and in a Works Cited.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Insert the Works Cited listing the three sources after the Third Task.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Post the paragraphs to the wiki March 12th. Timely posts of complete assign = 10 points. Task One = 50 points

Expressing yourself however you want in the 1980s was a very big movement, social influences like singers, rappers, MTV, and social groups brought an uprising of creativity and individualism, inside and outside, fashion was definitely people's way of showing how and what you were.“People embrace things so quickly,” said Laura Wills, who, as proprietor of the vintage clothing store Screaming Mimi’s, has spent three decades anticipating which style memory will be next up on the cultural screen. “They move on so fast that they constantly need new references." ( NYTimes, Laura Wills). Singers like Madonna, and television shows were watched like hawks to see what they would do next, social culture and pop culture dictated the way people would dress, fashion fads, and what was popular in everyday life, social media was people's escape. Movies like "Back to Future", television shows like CSI: Miami, and exercise shows brought insanely popular ideas for styles of clothing, like leggings, headbands, miniskirts, leg warmers, preppy conservative looks, and shoulder pads. "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." ( Coco Chanel) being part of something social was the life force, energy, and reason why people got up in the morning, to go turn on MTV, people were so in tune with what was happening and loved everything, clothing was their way of showing they love something. Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, and Michael Jackson, and bands like Bon Jovi gave people ideas of how to dress with crazy hair, jackets, and fishnet gloves and the status quo determined the way people dressed wether you were a punk, conservative preppy, California Valley girl, into Hip-Hop or a Jock. "Trying to understand each aspect of 80s fashion will take you on a long and winding road. Around the world, 80s fashion tended to have many local flavours and quirks - some trends were skipped, while others were retained for far too long."( Eighty Eightynine).

Calvin Klein was a very huge designer in the 1980s, the basic inventor of the "Skinny Jean" movement, which is still insanely popular today all around the world. Born on November 19, 1942, in Bronx, New York, Mr. Klein began his surge into the fashion world quickly "In 1968, he opened his own company. He was initially recognized for suits and coats, but his sportswear line became popular as well." (Bio.com). Selling 750 million dollars worth of clothes world wide in the 1980s, Klein dominated the world of fashion with an iron fist, he had high end clothesware along with affordable casual looks for the less wealthy. " He described his design philosophy as the making of “simple, comfortable but stylish clothes—but with nothing overscale or extreme.” His clothes were relatively expensive, classic, elegant, and easy to wear, and they struck a responsive chord among buyers in the United States and other countries" (Bio.com). He helped movie stars become famous by having their photographs blown up on buildings across multiple nations."Calvin Klein created a fashion brand that made understated, all-American glamour his own - at the same time as building a vast billion dollar brand that includes everything from pants to perfume and pillows" (Vogue) the far spread success of Klein made an amazing dent in his career with his first shipment of jean lines and and a dent in the social movement, because the 1980s was completely asscociated with pop-culture.

__Task Two--EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE--Due March 15th__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of 3 sources: two new ones and any of the three sources used in Task One. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">** PROMPT: Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1980s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First Century. ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">Please write two extended power paragraphs to address this prompt. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">**Task Two Rubric** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">
 * Support the main idea in each paragraph with evidence from the 2 new sources, as well as one of the credible sources used in Task One. Each paragraph must cite 3 different sources--2 new, 1 old.
 * Select only signed sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced. If you credited the source in Task One, you do not need to reestablish credibility, only an internal citation is required.
 * Credit sources with internal citations and in a Works Cited
 * Insert the two news sources in the Works Cited. Make sure all 5 sources are in alphabetical order.
 * Post the paragraphs to the wiki. Timely posting of completed tasks earn 10 points. Task One = 50 points.

Fashion was basically one of the root resasons why the 1980s is considered such a great decade becuase everyone wore something outrageous and it was basically always a party even when you walked on the street. Movies like The Breakfast Club and Footloose gave people great ideas on how to dress, like the preppy, punk, and workout/fitness look but "Films were not the only trendsetters in the 1980s. The onset of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #007cc3; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Music Television] (MTV) in 1983 found a youth market with money to spend, and the clothes and the looks of the rock stars whose videos were played on the 24-hour music station created a demand for high-end trends and thrift store rejects." (Batchelor). Anyone who watched MTV was basically glued to the television and would copy their idol's look the next day. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Laupert, and Cher's pervocative style of dress (much like Lady GaGa's) made people flood with bohemian, thrift store, and street looks (like today's Rihanna) influenced thousand's of style's all over the world. The movie based crazy looks stayed popular throughtout the decade "By the end of 1984, it became clear that there was no single fashion look." (// World Book Year Books) //but when the 1990s approached, the looks started to town down eventually yet we carried on fads still to this day, things like leggings, leg warmers, jump suits and much more. The 1980s brought out a long legacy, it inspired tons of the artists we have today and gave people minds of ease and it's been the talk of the town and is frequently reminisced of in today's society with t.v. and music the jokes of the fashion are always brought back to. Fashion still has a large impact in our century. Artist's like Madonna, who dressed flamboyantly and over-the-top made the way artist's like Lady GaGa and Rihanna dress and are brought back into every day clothing like the nerd sunglasses, leggings, athletic clothing like the neon-clothing Nike produces today and the preppy look is still here to stay because of Polo brand clothing.

Calvin Klein made a giant impact in the clothing and entertainment industries, as I said earlier, when stars like Mark Wahlberg would be in his men's underwear ads you could see everyone buying them in stores the next day because people were obsessed with what celebrities were wearing and doing. He knew very well what people liked even if it came to slight controversy... "Although Klein had earned a reputation for ``puritan styling, he launched a series of provocative advertisements that were far from puritan in tone and that appealed directly to sexual longing among young people. In one notorious advertisement, actress Brooke Shields appeared in a provocative pose on TV and asked, ``What comes between me and my Calvins ? Nothing. (Gaines). He used teen models to bring attention to younger audiences, who loved how his jeans, at the time, would ride below their hips and show their underwear because they loved how it was kind of against society, this upset parent's at the time, but in todays society, showing of skin or anything is highly sold and the teens didn't care "Said one teenager about a Klein model: ``I think she looks cute there. All my friends wear pants down past their underwear.'' (Gaines). Along with making teen's his consumer zombies, he also made adult lines popular because he would make stylish jeans that were tattered and people loved that because it was different and would put starting prices around 50 dollars so it made him like a designer label and people loved anything with labels on it. Klein's still alive and well today, he has made a giant impact in the 21st century because he's still one of the highest selling label names and people obviosly still buy his underwear, jeans, and shirts so he was exceedingly exstensive from the 80s- to now. Calvin Klein, in a way is like Madonna, she created something different for once, and people followed her like a flock of birds. Klein has made the fashion indsutry what it is, because everyone copied his tattered jeans style, companies like Abrecrombie and Hollister and Dolce & Gabana, his legacy will continue on forever. In our society today, Calvin Klein contributed to how millions of people dress, with his simple invention of making clothes...not plain, he's also influenced exspensive street looks, or things like designer underwear, his inventions are still highly successful and will continue to be for many decades more. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #9008b6; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Task Three--JUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATIO --Due Mar. 19th <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic and know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, identify the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the **Great Man Continuum** to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each one citing a minimum of 3 credible sources. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Encyclopedic sources are not acceptable for this task. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">**PROMPT: Explain the forces that produced or created your topic. Use the four criteria of the Great Man Continuum to analyze the topic's long-run significance in American society. Specifically, (1) describe the significance of the accomplishment, (2) the endurance of the legacy, (3) extent of the topics influence, and** **(4) impact on daily life of people then and now.** Fashion was frequently reproduced by movies being made and fads that came into throughition. Movies and celebrities were the basic foundation of whatever was popular to wear with their roles and themes. Fashion was really important to people because it really was the first decade ever that became insanely casual with what people would wear and do, unlike other decades like the 1920s where women were objectified if their ankle was seen. People began to start being accepting of whatever others would wear as well, letting people have confidence. The 1980s fashion and fads are still popular these days because people still have shoulder pads on jackets, big hair, mini skirts, and to preppy looks. Suzy Menkes of New York times agrees that "The sharp shoulders and sculpted shapes, molding the hips as well as the shoulders" (Menkes) looks like clothes the same as today. Today people have styles they never get rid of, and they will be forever popular and are always after something new and whatever important people wear “People embrace things so quickly,” said Laura Wills, who, as proprietor of the vintage clothing store Screaming Mimi’s, has spent three decades anticipating which style memory will be next up on the cultural screen. “They move on so fast that they constantly need new references. Around the store we laugh and say, ‘Didn’t we already do the ’80s? Didn’t we have that neon moment five years ago?’ “ (Treybay).

Calvin Klein was pushed up the ladder by other aspiring designers of his day by them telling everyone about his insanely infamous jeans. He has been the foundation for at least 20 years of ideas of how designers of today get their ideas. "Throughout the fashion industry, word spread quickly about Klein and his sleek designs, which were now featured regularly in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. In the early 1970s, he introduced his trademark jeans, which he elevated to designer status by cutting them tight and branding his name on the back pocket." (Infomat). He's made everyone bring the idea of putting their name on jeans like true religion jeans, seven, and levi's. People love his clothes and will continue to kill in sales for a very long time, and still wear his clothes, which are often featured in the biggest magazines in fashion in the world. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">**Holistic Rubric for all 3 Tasks**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">**A quality topic post for the 1980s assignment will**
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Arrange Media to enhance and extend the significance of the topic to the 1980s decade.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Support the main idea in <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">each paragraph with evidence from 3 different sources.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Select only signed sources from the LC databases.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Credit sources with internal citations, ( Author's Last Name).
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">List all 7 sources alphabetically in the Works Cited. Format in MLA style.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Complete Great Man Continuum and Table.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Justify the placement of your topic on the continuum using the evidence from the 7 sources to support your analysis of the 4 criteria.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Answer the prompts for all 3 tasks and the research question thoughtfully and thoroughly.

X= Fashion
 * x**= Klein


 * Great Man Criteria || ** 5=long-run ** || ** 4=wide-spread ** || ** 3=moderate ** || ** 2=short run ** || ** 1=little effect ** || ** 0=not at all ** ||
 * ** SIGNIFICANCE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT ** || X ||  || **x** ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** ENDURANCE OF LEGACY ** || X ||  || **x** ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** EXTENT OF INFLUENCE ** ||  || X || **x** ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** IMPACT ON DAILY LIFE ** ||  || X ||   ||   ||   || **x** ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">Great Man Continuum

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Great --Event Making --Eventful --Social

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Men -Hero ---Hero ---Determinism

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Task Three Rubric **
 * Support the main idea in each paragraph with evidence from the 2 new expert opinion sources, as well as one of the credible sources used in Tasks One or Two. Each paragraph must cite 3 different sources--2 new, 1 old.
 * Select only signed sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * Credit sources with internal citations and in a Works Cited
 * ** Complete Great Man Continuum and Table and justify your placement using the evidence of the 4 criteria **
 * Insert the two news sources in the Works Cited. Make sure all 7 sources are in alphabetical order.
 * Post the paragraphs to the wiki. Timely posting of completed tasks earn 10 points. Task One = 50 points.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Need Help Applying the Great Man Theory? ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">When deciding where a person may fit on the continuum, think about what society was like at the time he/she was famous. Did the person change history because of their personal characteristics, or would history have gone on in a similar way without this person? Civil Society Defined Great Man Continuum
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Refer to these handouts for additional information: **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** eed Help Using the Great Man Criteria Table? ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Use a scale of 0-to 5 to evaluate the individual’s accomplishments, legacy, influence, and impact.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** 0=not at all, 1=little effect, 2=short run, 3=moderate, 4=wide-spread, 5=long run **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Individuals with high totals, mostly 5’s, should be placed close to Great Men; those with low scores near social determinism.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px;">Need Help placing individuals on the Great Man Continuum? **