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Month: November 2022

Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday

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Cyber Monday is a marketing term for e-commerce transactions on the Monday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It was created by retailers to encourage people to shop online. The term was coined by Ellen Davis of the National Retail Federation and Scott Silverman, and made its debut on November 28, 2005, in a Shop.org press release entitled “‘Cyber Monday’ Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year”.[1] Cyber Monday takes place the Monday after Thanksgiving; the date falls between November 26 and December 2, depending on the year.
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Gratitude

Gratitude

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US World War I veteran Joseph Ambrose (1896–1988) attends the dedication parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, wearing his original Brodie helmet and doughboy uniform and holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, Clement, who was killed in the Korean War.
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Rough Sleepers

Rough Sleepers

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Rough Sleepers are Homeless People in London. I need to grudgingly admit this: the British use the English Language lots more creatively than we do. Leave it to them to come up with a term that catches the feeling of a hard night on a bench or a night spent in a dome tent pitched on the sidewalk. What we call being out on the street We say Homeless. That’s a term Sociologists use. Unhoused is the latest modification. A…

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