Make the Connection Make the Connection: Founding and Purpose Make the Connection is a federal program launched by the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that provides veterans with an opportunity to reach vital services and resources. Being a government initiative, it lacks an individual founder and was established with the purpose of coping with […]
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“No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”
By: JL No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs The lead-up to this: Their English neighbors had always oppressed the Irish. On Easter Morning, April 24th, 1916, 1,200 Irish rebels battled against 20,000 British troops and lost decisively; this became known as the Easter Rising. Many Irish did not support the uprising until they […]
Wong Wing v. US
Wong Wing v US Wong Wong vs US is a Supreme Court case that occurred in 1896 in which Wong Wing, Lee Poy, Lee You Tong, and Chan Wah Dong were found to be in the U.S. unlawfully by John Graves, a commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Michigan due to […]
Fong Yue Ting v. United States
Bonnie Z. Summary In the mid 1800s, large numbers of Chinese immigrants came to the US. Their main reason for coming was during the Gold Rush (1848-1855) as a chance to get wealthy, but they faced financial and discriminatory challenges. During the building of the transcontinental railroad, white workers refused to do such hard work […]
Hurricane Maria : Puerto Rico 2017
Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico Events leading to Hurricane Maria 2006 – 2017: A prolonged economic recession affected Puerto Rico, contributing to a ten percent loss in GDP. The debt was as high as above seventy billion dollars. Many people in the manufacturing sector lost their jobs as others moved to the Mainland. 2016 – 2017: […]
Moon Landing
Moon Landing https://blogs.umb.edu/communitypsych/wiki/then-and-now-impactful-community-events/moon-landing/ Citations Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1, the first human spaceflight. The Planetary Society. (n.d.). https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/vostok-1 Ostovar, M., & Bowman, A. (2024, June 17). Apollo 1. NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-1/ Smithsonian. (2021, August 9). Apollo 11 timeline. National Air and Space Museum. https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/apollo-missions/apollo-11-moon-landing/apollo-11-timeline Bowman, A. […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda is a writer born in 1980 in New York City. Is an American writer, actor, and composer best known for creating and starring in Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights. Early Life and Education Before his birth, his parents relocated to the United States from Puerto Rico. He had been […]
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She grew up in a segregated society and faced racial discrimination from an early age. Parks was educated at the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls and later attended Alabama State University. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks, a barber and civil rights […]
Jingoism
Jingoism is a fanatic, violent form of nationalism or patriotism in which the interests of one group are given priority over another, which in many cases leads to a lack of inclusiveness and equity. It is not just being proud of oneself, but it can also often lead to discrimination, marginalization, social policy that becomes […]
Lobbyist
Author: Tess Givens Word: Lobbyist The definition of lobbyist given by etymoline.com is, “…permit himself to lose heavily at the poker-table, under the assumption that the great Congressman who wins the stake will look leniently upon the little appropriation he means to ask for.”(George A. Townsend, 1876). While this definition doesn’t seem to add up […]