Transcript Elemberg - hfedus515Fa2011

What Year Is It?
BY Erica Lemberg
It was thought by this time that humans
would be capable of amazing
feats.………and in some ways we are.
In this year, the human genome project announced to
have mapped DNA. Scientist are still looking for the
codes to unlock the secrets of cancer, diabetes
Alzheimer’s to name a few.
Time Warner was bought out by the ever popular
America Online.
In this year NSYNC became a household
name. “No Strings Attached” sold 2 million
copies in their first 2 weeks.

We watched movies some we will
remember like “Gladiator” which won
best picture at the Academy awards.
We wore clothes that were unique…..some that have stood
the test of time, others that we hope to forget.
 We endured moral and ethical decisions about immigrants like
the seven year old boy, Elian Gonzalez. Elian’s mother
drowned while attempting to leave Cuba and start a new life in
the U.S. Elian was returned to Cuba to be with his biological
father.
The world was shocked when the Concord, Flight
4590, Air France crashed killing all 109 passengers on
board.
In Politics: The nation waited for Florida’s voting
results as Bill Clinton was ending 8 years as
president
.
Al Gore and George W. Bush were both informed they
were the President.
Ooops..
And George W. Bush Became our
43rd president.
But the biggest and most
terrifying event of this year
was………………..
Y2K is when the computer systems
supposedly erased all our information due
to a computer error. All the systems were
thought to crash……..
But, we all survived at least
until 2012
So what Year was it?