Video games became a worldwide trend during these past few years. Now with the rivaling releases of the Xbox One and the PS4, thousands of fans are hyped over the most current breakthroughs in video game history; however, do they know how it all started?
A two-year-old giraffe, Marius, was euthanized Sunday, February 9th, at Copenhagen zoo in Denmark to prevent inbreeding of zoo giraffes. Marius is not the first to be euthanized due to the lack of resources in zoos that cannot feed an influx of animals, but his death has stirred widespread controversy on the treatment of zoo…
Parents, if you feel the need to join your kids or co-workers or family and get a Twitter, go ahead. But there are a few things you should know when making and using a Twitter account.
The staff of MLEC’s The Harbinger engaged readers on Twitter and provoked a discussion about the 50-year-old US embargo on Cuba. Below (linked) are only some of the hundreds of tweets the flooded the Twittersphere last night and made #EmbargoTalk a national trending topic. http://storify.com/FlaviaCuervo/embargotalk
On February 19th, The Harbinger hosted #EmbargoTalk, a “Twitter talk” in which staff members engaged with the community to discuss the Cuban embargo. Linked below is the video produced by the Harbinger to promote the talk: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48h-kr6LqVo&feature=youtu.be]
Older Cuban Americans, and older people in general, believe that my generation is apathetic. They call us the “me generation,” far removed from the struggles, political strife and activism that they experienced. Cuban Americans specifically feel that my generation of Cubans — most were born here — do not understand the exiles’ plight.
In 1962, President Kennedy signed Proclamation 3447, which established the embargo against Cuba to reduce “the threat posed by its alignment with the communist powers,” in response to the confiscation of American property in Cuba under Castro’s newly installed rule. Fifty years later, the embargo is still in place and has not, in any way,…
In the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the United States was prepared to acknowledge the new regime in Cuba. This quickly changed as it came to fear the spread of communism across Latin America as it did in Southeast Asia. This gave rise to debatably the longest-standing piece of foreign policy in the history of…
Five decades after the Cuban embargo was put in place to hopefully bring down the communist government of Cuba, the Caribbean nation’s 11 million people are still under the hard control of the Castro brothers. Recently, a conversation on it’s effectiveness has reached the national stage and many Cuban Americans are finding themselves on opposite…
Many of today’s high school graduates aren’t ready for college or the workforce. According to a college placement test taken by students in the 2010-2011 school year, more than half of high school graduates required remedial education to enroll into college classes.