Juneteenth is a holiday in Texas that commemorates the celebration of the abolition of slavery in the United States. It was on June 19, 1865, that General Gordon Granger leading the Union soldiers, arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced the end of the war and the freedom of all slaves. This event happened two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation by the president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. There have been several versions of stories to explain the two and half years’ delay…
suicide is an example the travesties that can occur from this constant invasion of one’s privacy. After a roommate found a video of Tyler Clementi on a webcam, it was then posted, soon became viral, and it led Clementi to commit suicide. “In 1984, the abolition of personal space was part of an overarching government policy, but nowadays it’s often nothing more than a side effect of wired high spirits. The era of the “viral video,” when footage of some absorbing slice of life can spread overnight around…
The American dream and the tale of the Mafia Problem: How did some of the immigrants live their American dream at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century? The American dream started with the idea that everybody with his own work, determination and courage could become rich and prosperous. The concept of the American dream appeared in the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important migrations in the history of humanity. Migrants searched on the American…