Cuban sandwich

Amaya Thompkins Professor Norals ENGL1010-A09 September 10, 2016 “Cuba” Known for its beauty, bizarre tourist’s attractions, and valued cigars, the Caribbean island of Cuba, a totalitarian communist state, has a multiracial and multicultural society. The largest island of the West Indies group; Cuba lies within ninety miles south of Key West, Florida. The mixture of native, African, and European influences in Cuba gives the island a lively culture that is known around the world. The introduction…

The disagreement in how Che Guevara should be remembered somewhat lies in the ignorance of Che’s political existence in history. Hardt, Rivera-Perez, and Calles- Santillana argue that “Che’s charismatic influence could be rendered useless by revealing large gaps in his life ‘between what he tried to do and what he actually accomplished” (359). This concept is one that is often ignored in pop culture. It is forgotten that Guevara could have influenced history in more than one way. For example,…

The most prevalent argument in Julia Sweig’s Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground is the importance that the llano played in the insurgency. The book also attempts to debunk the myth’s surrounding Che, Castro, and the sierra-llano conflict. Through her never before seen evidence, we get a new look into the essential role that these revolutionary women played in the leadership of the Sierra Maestra alongside Castro, as well as in the urban underground. (Add more…

On his way to conquer the New World, Columbus first settled here in the island previously known as Quisqueva, Bohia and Ayti, then the Spanish named it Hispaniola. The original inhabitants called Tainos were annihilated as African slaves were delivered here with special purposes. Santo Domingo, the capital was the city at the very heart of the Spanish Empire in the New World. In 1967 Spanish ceded to France the present Republic of Haiti and the part that continued to be a Spanish colony turned…

Now Those Are Some Expensive Socks Mark Cuban is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He also owns a plethora of businesses such as Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures. As a personality, he is likely best known for his role as an investor on the television show "Shark Tank." Cuban is also a multi-billionaire and can buy pretty much whatever he wants. Even so, $250,000 is a lot to spend on socks. To be fair, the investment was not for a single pair of high-end golden footies, but for a 20…

The story of the life of Celia Cruz is as unique as its impressive talent. Born in Cuba in 1924, Cruz grew up in a poor neighborhood of Havana. As one of fourteen children in the house, some siblings, other cousins, Cruz stood out among them for their ability to sing. She started entering amateur contests from fourteen. Cruz studied at the National Music Conservatoria Havana with a concentration in voice, piano and music theory. Although her father encouraged her to become a teacher, developing…

Everything those people have is all they have. The Cuban government has a corrupt system. The government continues to censor information and punish public criticism. Since the govenment has a communists system, everyone in Cuba has to follow their rules or else they will get punished. It now relies on long-term…

very different after Fidel Castro came into the picture. He started a revolution! Castro would imprison and kill those who disagreed with him. Many Cubans thought this revolution would only last for months; no more than a couple years. ( Masud-Piloto 15) But boy, were they wrong. With Obama opening up relations with Cuba, why did so many Cubans leave their country in the 1950’s to present day? Before Fidel Castro became Cubas leader, Fulgencio…

Dissatisfaction can easily be morphed into a revolution which is exactly what Catiline did. Similar to Rome, Cuba’s government was not faring well with its warring factions, coups, and corrupt government . The same dissatisfaction the Romans had, so did many Cubans, and the option of something different, a new set of standards, was appealing towards them. Fidel states that, “I discovered one thing: the easiest thing in the world, under those circumstances, was converting somebody to Marxism.”…

with the United States dwindled, and those with the Soviet Union progressed, tensions arose from those political transgressions and many failed assassination attempts by the American government. The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis was a stepping stone to what we know as Cuban-American political relations. Announced at the end 2014 by the current United States President Barak Obama, relations with Cuba needed reformation and were outdated. “In the most significant changes in our policy…