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    Cuban Culture

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    Cuba is the largest country in the Caribbean region. Cuba is not advanced as it ought to be in 2014. Cuba’s land area is 42,803 square miles, 110,860 square kilometers. Cuba’s main land lies south of Florida in the Caribbean Sea by the Gulf of Mexico. Cuba has a lot of bays, beaches, and harbors. Cuban culture reflects on its Spanish colonial past and African influences. United Sates won the Spanish American War in 1898 the Cuban people were poverty or got rich. As some can see Cuba is not as…

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    Jamaica Research Paper

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    Jamaica is an Island located in the Caribbean Sea. Of all the Greater Antilles islands, it is the third largest. The island is situated a hundred and forty-five kilometers south of Cuba and a hundred and ninety-one kilometers west of Hispaniola. Given its immense size of 10, 990 square kilometers, Jamaica is the fourth largest island country in the Caribbean. The Gross Domestic Product of Jamaica was worth 14.03 billion US dollars in the year 2016. Put on the global spectrum, Jamaica’s GDP…

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    Cuba Research Paper

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    Cuba is on the North America continent and on the Caribbean Sea The latitude and longitude for Cuba is 30 degrees north and 80 degrees west. Some major cities in Cuba is Havana, Mariel, Pinar Del Rio, and Las Tunas and the capital is Havana Some nearby countries is the United States and Bahamas and the Cayman Islands Some nearby oceans in Cuba is the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean There are few mountain ranges in Cuba but one that is really known is Sierra Maestra. It…

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    Woodes Rogers was certainly one of the most notable persons that have ever lived in the Caribbean. This Englishman had two big obligations in his life. At first, he was a privateer and later became the first governor of Bahamas. In both duties, his main targets were the pirates . Woodes Rogers took a great part in suppressing pirates in most of the Caribbean Sea . Most of them took his offer of King's amnesty. However, even the bravest pirates, who opposed, ended their careers afterwards, most…

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    Cuba Vacations By ross micheal Aug 1, 2011 Cuba is a unique country and therefore a vacation destination like no other. The political situation for the last fifty years has made the island one of the few places in the world without mass marketing and mass media. It is a place which can confound and delight in equal measure and well worth a visit before things change. Havana has a lot to offer tourists; the architecture in particular is an attraction which has developed over five centuries of…

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    Caribbean Ship

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    Pennsylvania was bustling with excitement. All over the city, people were running errands, setting up shops, and carrying on with their daily lives. For soon, an important boat would enter the harbor,and it would take its passengers on a journey to the Caribbean Islands. I, David Carson, was 38 years old and employed as one of the many carpenters in the city, but I would be among one of these passengers. I was searching for some new environment in which I could explore vastly different designs…

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    The Hispaniola is an island in the Caribbean Sea and sits on the great Antilles. The Island sits on the microplate of Gonave. The Gone is the largest of the four microplates that sit at the Centre of the Caribbean plates and North America . The Gonave plate is situated at the strike-slip faults. The strike-slip faults are located at the Enriquillo Plantain Garden fault zone (Caribbean Tectonics, http://caribbeantectonics.weebly.com/caribbean-microplates.html). The geology of Haiti consists…

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    for Spain. I then heard of gold nearby Puerto Rico, which the king sent me to search for in 1508. I took 50 soldiers and 1 ship, and came back a year later to Hispaniola with much gold. I was named governor of Puerto Rico. The sea that time was a sailor’s wish, as for the sea was blue and true. That trip was an easy one. For a long while everything was fine. Only…

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    visited point for taking cruises beside Florida and the Caribbean. We can find different yachts harbors along Nice, Antibes, Golfe Juan and Cannes, as we can also find different job’s opportunities in various fields as restaurants and hotels but also in the yachting industry. People from all over the world arrive to these small cities in order to be part of the crew of a boat and join the different itineraries around the French Riviera, the Caribbean or other places. In order…

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    extinction through murder, enslavement, and disease, although not before some interbreeding took place, largely the rape of Taino women.” With the diminution of the Indian workforce, the colonizers resorted to bringing the African Negro to the Caribbean basin in order to maintain the extraction of the commodity; in 1513, African slaves first arrive in Puerto…

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