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Latin American colonies during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a hotbed of resentment and discontent among the lower castes of society. Indigenous and slave populations were brutalized and exploited in order to fill the coffers of aristocratic elites and foreign monarchies. Somewhere in the middle, a growing population of mixed-race ethnic groups found themselves ostracized and struggling to find their niche in life. News of foreign events and new philosophies and ideologies…

This review will focus on the film 12 Years a Slave and how it exposes the horrid enterprise of slavery, including the re-enslavement process and the generally horrid living and working conditions.. I hope to learn more about the actual events of Solomon Northup’s life as I look into the differences between the novel and the movie. Between 1619 and 1865, African-Americans had to deal with multiple injustices; socially, they were often looked down upon by white people, politically they had no say…

Guevara adamantly proposed that women should be able to fight in the revolution as they had the discipline, and characteristics to fulfill a sufficient role. Che Guevara wanted women to participate in the revolution because of the outdated attitudes Cuba harbored women, race, individualism, and manual labor. According to Joseph Hart, author of 2010 novel Che The Life, Death, and Aftermath of a Revolutionary , Guevara urged all individuals to view each other as equals and take on the values of…

Cultural discrepancies always play a role when it comes to conflicts. For example, language act as a barrier when trying to get ideas across and are often at the root of all miscommunications. Excluding background differences, all people are human. They feel, they cry, they tend and they’re especially prone to mistakes and hypocrisy. In the novel, The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, a white boy growing up in a Native American tribe is to determine where his true loyalties lie. The…

Plot Summary: “The Old Man and The Sea,” written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1952, relates the difficult life of an old Cuban fisherman that struggles in his profession for a long period of time until he catches the biggest fish in his life. The story begins presenting readers the fact that Santiago, the old fisherman, has been eighty-four days without catching a fish. This uncomfortable situation leads Manolin, a teenager who works with Santiago, to leave him under his father’s…

Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDs in the Dominican Republic, by Mark Padilla, explores the social and economic effects of the Dominican Republic’s dependency on the tourism industry, particularly as they relate to male sex workers. The abundance of opportunity in the tourism industry—as opposed to the lack thereof in, per se, agriculture—all but forces migration of the middle class and the poor to urban areas, where they can easily access popular tourist destinations,…

Film Analysis: Dólares de Arena The film by filmmakers Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzaman Dólares de Arena was released in 2014 and features Noeli (Yanet Mojica) as the main character. The fairly attractive young Dominican woman, Noeli is improvised. She lives in a hut with her boyfriend Yeremi (Ricardo Ariel Torbio). Her life seems very relaxed as she hangs out with and hustles white tourist on the beaches of the Dominican Republic. Her main conflict is her class and by consequence her…

Ex-President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (“JFK” or “Jack”) has become one of the most renowned figures to this day in the aspect of leaving a legacy The United States as well as the majority of the world study, quote, and ethically abide by in the case of morally understanding what it takes to be a true American . During the president’s term in office JFK fought a long and hard battle for peace and equality, whether it was for fighting civil rights in his very own backyard of America or genuinely…

series of offensive missile sites on the island of Cuba, which had been placed there by the Soviet Union. Kennedy went on to inform his audience that the Soviet Union had been ordered to remove all the missiles from Cuba and a quarantine had been placed on the island. The media played a large role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, mostly working behind the scenes. They worked to publicize President Kennedy’s public address, allowed the two…

nationalizing (to bring under the ownership or control of a nation, as industries and land) and confiscation (to seize as forfeited to the public domain) without reimbursing (to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred) of American property in Cuba, and the Bay of Pigs invasion occurred (Dictionary.com). These conflicts increased tension and distrust between the two nations. In the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other guerrilla fighters (members of a band of irregular soldiers that…