Cuban American

demonstrates the importance of the geographic topic because it develops knowledge of the environment it focuses on the understanding and resolving issues about the environment. Globalization: Cuba was isolated for a long-period of time because of the American trade ban. The…

lift the embargo on Cuba. Good afternoon. The topic of this speech is on the United States should or should not lift the Cuban embargo. This is a very short backstory behind the embargo placed on Cuba. The U.S. placed an trade embargo on Cuba in 1962 and added travel restrictions in 1963. The economic embargo was placed because Cuba had taken oil-refineries which were American owned as their own and Cuba did not give compensation to the U.S. Since then, the U.S. disliked Cuba and mostly Cuba’s…

backgrounds. Notably, my home was surrounded by families from Mexico, Bangladesh, and Argentina to state the least. As a Cuban- American, I assimilated with the cultures and thrived during my trips to Cuba. Each trip classified my identify to one I wished to not hold, but soon grew to love. I aspired to connect with the ethnicities around the world in order to not be seen as just a Cuban. However, the accommodation since I was a year old to travel to Cuba yearly allowed me to gain the experience…

country's culture similar to or different from U.S. culture? Despite the fact, of some of the ways Cuban culture can be similar to U.S. culture may be through the average family of the U.S. having 3.19 members, where the Cuban family average has 3.18 members. Some of the differences of the U.S. and Cuba cultures are unambiguous. However, the Americans take for granted many luxuries, where as Cubans go without; nevertheless, one of the moral qualities of happiness cannot be built on what…

El Rapto de las Mulatas, made in 1938, is a painting by Cuban avant-garde artist Carlos Enriquez. It translates to “The Abduction of the Mulatas,” where mulatas are mixed race women in Cuba. The painting portrays a scenario that is described very literally in the title: a pair of mulatas being abducted and raped by two men who seem to be guajiros, Cuban countrymen. There are varying theories pertaining to what exactly the painting really represents, but most of these theories are centered around…

International Field Program is extremely unique: I would take classes with leading Cuban intellectuals, gain an alternative view point on concepts that I gained from the perspective of neoliberalism, and I will share the classes with Cuban students, a rare opportunity that will enrich each lecture. Additionally, I will achieve hands-on experience through visits, workshops, and direct engagement with projects run by Cuban NGOS and CBOs. I will have internships with foreign NGOS working in Cuba.…

Cuba and an American- backed ally. Batista was a corrupt leader and had very pro-American stance in policy making. These allowed U.S companies to completely dominate the Cuban sugar business. At the time U.S companies and wealthy individuals not only controlled the sugar business but also various cattle ranches,mines and other fields of the Cuban economy. Batista was very anti-communist. Unlike Fidel Castro who almost right after he came to power was taking steps to reduce the Americans hold…

the fact that many Americans view Fidel Castro with a reprobative attitude, once he came into power he made many laws that gave his people great benefits and opportunities that still continue today. Fidel Castro, a Havana lawyer, ran for the Cuban congress, but it got canceled after Fulgencio Batista became the president and took over Cuba in 1940. In 1953, after previous failed attempts by the Castro brothers they launched an insurrection against Batista (Deplama, “The Cuban Revolution). The…

“Cuba Libre!” screamed the Cuban-Americans that gathered in the streets of Hialeah the night the man who altered the course of many lives, including mine, died. My grandmother, a Cuban widow, who’d live over 50 years in American and speaks close to no English, experienced the pain of Castro’s regime first-hand. That night, at a fatigue-filled 85 years old, she would take out the Guiro, a Cuban instrument used usually for celebrations like fiestas and Noche Buena, and frantically strum while…

By March 1952 the protagonist for launching an armed revolution was Fidel Castro (Castro) a young lawyer and activists petitioned who aimed to overthrow Batista. Castro accused Batista of corruption and tyranny, however the Cuban courts due to the power of Batista. The Cuban courts rejected Castro’s constitutional arguments as Batista security to silence any political opposition was to great to overpower. In late 1940’s and 1950’s…