The Essay

For your reading pleasure, I wrote an essay the other day at school about the '90s. Please leave feedback.

On January 1, 1990, the decade known as the ‘90s began. This decade would be known (mainly by me) as the decade of all decades. It was also the last decade of the 20th century. Let’s take a look at the greatness of this decade. Because I can only remember as far back as 1992, it’s going to be hard to talk about events prior to that date.

The first major event of the ‘90s I remember is the Super Storm Blizzard on March 13, 1993. This storm stretched from Florida all the way up to New England. Of course, it was more like a hurricane in Florida. In Atlanta, the storm was bad; it canceled the NASCAR race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Here in North Carolina, the storm knocked out electricity for most of the state and also knocked WFMY News 2 off the air for a day.

The most ‘90s year would probably be 1994. This year included a lot of early ‘90s gems and a lot of mid ‘90s gems. It’s also my favorite year. 1994 was also the last year of the grunge fad. I also got a lot of information about the ‘90s from an old video tape I found last year that I recorded off TV in 1994 containing commercials. Times have definitely changed. 1994 was also a good year because I was at the height of my childhood.

In August of 1995, the mid 90’s really kicked off for me when I started my first year of school at Madison Elementary School. That year, I met a lot of very interesting people like my first semi-friend Philip. In December of that year, we also bought our first computer. It was a Packard Bell with Microsoft Windows 95.

The first half of 1996 was a lot like the second half of 1995. The thing I remember the most of that year would be the Packard Bell. I played so many games on there and I also became fascinated with the still growing Internet. As of today, I still play most of those original Packard Bell games.

Unfortunately it started to get a little rough in the second half of 1996 and the first half of 1997. In 1st grade, my ADD began to really kick in which prevented me from doing any work. What made it bad was that we didn’t know it was the ADD and we thought I was just being stubborn. I was grounded twice for no reason! Fortunately in 2nd grade, we found out about it.

The ‘90s came to a close on December 31, 1999. I remember a lot of people (including me), were afraid of the Y2K bug that would strike computers at midnight on January 1, 2000. Banks would lose all important information; telephones would go out, electricity would go out, hospital computers would go out, etc. We were all proven wrong at midnight on January 1, 2000 when nothing happened.

We are now in the decade known as the ‘00s. A few things have remained from the ‘90s, but a lot of things have been lost. There are now more adult themes on TV, more violence, no Carolina Circle Mall, and etc. The only thing I like about this decade is the technology.

I’d definitely say that the ‘90s would be my favorite decade because of television, fun, Carolina Circle Mall, and technology.