‘The Godfather’ Some of the scenes in The Godfather: Part II take place in Havana, where Michael travels to discuss some business deals. However, since shooting in Cuba was not a possibility in 1974, the film crew decided to take the action to Santo Domingo instead. At that time, less than 10 movies had been filmed on the island. Thanks for…
‘Global’ can either be defined as being worldwide, international, or something that relates to, or encompasses, the entirety of something- for the purposes of this essay, I will be using the latter definition, with the ‘global’ referring to the whole of America and its culture. The texts I will be referring to are Junot Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her and Lorrie Moore’s The Gate at the Stairs. In This Is How You Lose Her, the relationship between America (the ‘global’) and its cultural influence…
Daniel Sternheim 10-6-17 First Year Seminar Essay #2 Professor Redding Topic: Comparing and Contrasting the characters life in their home country to their life in America. Using two stories “Otravida Otravez” and “Inverino” from the book “This is how you lose her” by Junot Diaz, Diaz explains the theme of Characters who come from a different country or region that moves to the United States for a better life. In the first story “Otravida Otravez” from “This is…
high and lowland areas, rivers and lakes, including offshore islands. The Dominican Republic displays beautiful mountain ranges covered with forests, Pico Duarte being the highest mountain in the Caribbean and plains such as the Coastal Plain of Santo Domingo. Despite not having been blessed with natural lakes, The Yaque del Norte represents the longest river in here, crossing the most fertile area, The Cibao Valley. Turtles are the key attraction points whenever it is to outline the…
The Dominican Republic, commonly referred to as “The DR” or “The Dominican,” shares the island of Hispaniola (the second largest island in the Caribbean) with neighboring Haiti. Specifically, The Dominican Republic makes up the eastern two-thirds of the island, which is located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, and is considered to be in the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic’s share of Hispaniola (along with several small surrounding islands) totals 48,320 square…
Juan Luis Guerra was born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic who is a producer, composer, singer, and songwriter. In his music, he implements jazz, salsa, merengue, bachata, blues, Afro-pop, soukous (French, African origins), gospel music, etc. Some of his influences were the Beatles and heard bachata elements in songs such as “Till There Was You” and “If I Fell” and on “Till There Was You,” where it used bongos. He heard African musician, Papa Wemba playing with Peter Gabriel in NY.…
was too far out at sea to turn around to make his presence known. Since the boat was too far out at sea, the captain of the ship had to let Jean stay onboard; however, once the ship got to the port of Santo Domingo the captain of the “Fox” made Jean stay behind. Whilst Jean was staying in Santo Domingo he found work at a plantation, and he met a padre at the church. While the priest wanted Jean to work at the church, Jean had other plans. When Jean found his love and asked the padre to give them…
The Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is located on half of a small island known as Hispaniola. The island of Hispaniola is located in the Caribbean sea and is also the second largest island located in the Caribbean. Over the long history of the island, it has been split into two halves, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The Dominican Republic is the largest hal fog the island with a land area of 18,704 cubic miles and a population of 10.4 million. The Dominican Republic was originally…
it “La Espanola” or in English “La Hispaniola”. The island was resided by the Taino indigenous group. This group was forced into slavery by the Spaniards and after all the abuse and illnesses the Spaniards brought, the majority of them died. Santo Domingo is the capital of the Dominican Republic it was founded in 1496 and is the oldest city the European settled on. The island of La Hispaniola stayed under Spanish reign until 1697. Spain let go of the colony to French empire in 1795, but in only…
Oscar Wao Paper 1 Fuku a curse of doom. Fuku was brought to Santo Domingo by the dictator, Rafael Trujillo or that is how the Dominican people would testify. Oscar Wao’s family was cursed by Fuku as shown in the novel. “If you even thought a bad thing about Trujillo,fua, a hurricane would sweep your family out to sea,fua,....” p.3 This is how fuku is presented in the novel and how it was known in Santo Domingo. My family was presented with a term similar to fuku. This term is known as…