popular culture in the 1990's

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-Dolly the sheep is the first successful clone in 1997.

-Kurt Cobain commits suicide, 1994.

-Rwandan genocide. The world does nothing.

-Harry Potter is published in 1997.

-Columbine tragedy, 1999.

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•Hate Crimes Statistics Act is passed.

•Nelson Mandela is released from prison.

•The Soviet Union ends.

•Biosphere II experiment.

•Jeffery Dahlmer is arrested.

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-The first successful clone.

-Took place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

-Lived her entire life at the Roslin Institute.

-”Born”: July 5th, 1996.

-Death: February 14th, 2003.

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-In 1990, the idea popped into her head.

-The first book was released in 1998.

-J. K. Rowling is now richer than the Queen.

-Series has been translated in over 65 languages.

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Released in 1993.

Each has a tag with a name, birthday and poem.

They avoided chain retailers.

-Became the #1 fad of the 90’s.

-Also released, though not as popular:

-Tickle Me Big Bird-Tickle Me Ernie-Tickle Me Cookie Monster.

-Most expensive bought for $15,000US.

-Released in 1996.

A Wal-Mart employee was trampled and injured badly enough that he had to go to the hospital at

the release of this toy. According to People magazine, the cashier had a concussion, a

pulled hamstring, injuries to his back, jaw and knees, and even a broken rib.

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-Began as a series of Arcade games.

-First home version released in 1992.

-Loosely based on the movie “Enter the Dragon”

-Popular for it’s violence, gore and graphic fatalities.

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Britney Spears

Nirvana

Madonna

Spice Girls

Smashing Pumpkins

Hanson

U2

Backstreet Boys

MC Hammer

Ricky Martin

Beck

Seal

Oasis

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•Inspired by alternative rock, heavy metal and indie rock•Characterized by heavily distortional guitars and angst ridden lyrics.•Became successful due to Nirvana’s Nevermind and Pearl Jam’s Ten.

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-Debut single ”Wannabe” is released in 1996.

-First album ranked #41 on the 100 most successful albums of all time.

-”Ginger Spice’s” Union Jack dress sold for £146,511 for a cancer charity.

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Based on a Japanese show, Super Sentai.

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Ran from 1993 to 1995

under the original name.

In Malaysia, the word “Morphin” is censored as a part of the campaign

agains drug use.

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Since it’s release in 1995, it had become the second most popular video game based franchise in the world. [The first

being Mario.]

In the United Kingdom, the "Christian Power Cards" game was introduced in 1999 in response to these claims of Pokémon to be Satanic, the game being similar to the

Pokémon TCG but using Biblical figures.

The Pokemon comic book outsells any other comic in history.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon#Criticism_and_controversy

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1. Schindler’s List (1993)

2. Goodfellas (1990)

3. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

4. Pulp Fiction (1994)

5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

6. Fargo (1996)

7. Unforgiven (1992)

8. Shawshank Redemption (1994)

9. Malcom X (1992)

10. American Beauty (1999)http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/weblog/film/schindlers_list.jpg

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The 90’s turned out some of the most popular cult classic movies, television shows and figures. Some of the cult movies include:

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What is a cult following? A cult following is a group of fans who are devoted to a

specific are of pop culture, most often developed around movies, books and television shows, though some authors, video games and comic books have cult followings as well.

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