Cubans

In the play The Cuban Swimmer, written by Milcha Sanchez-Scott, the general staging plays a big part in moving the story along. Stage directions, lighting, and sound effects work together to make The Cuban Swimmer a submersible one-act play. These properties of staging make the audience use their imagination to assume what the playwright is referring to. As the result of this, the play makes the audience feel like they are a part of it. At the beginning of the play, the setting and time are…

In Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia, immigration plays a large role in terms of family dynamics. Firstly, the family is separated by political ideals regarding the revolution that is taking place in Cuba. Secondly, they are also separated by location. Some are living in Cuba, while others reside in America. Celia del Pino, supporter of El Lidér and the revolution, remains faithful to Cuba throughout her life. She also remains infatuated with her Spaniard lover long after their love affair…

performing the traditional Cuban Mambo. The second video shows a Russian folk dance performed in Vigo, Spain by ‘Ansambl’ Tanca Sibirianochka’ from Irkutsk, Russia in 2009. The third video has the Khalsa College Patiala Winners…

mother brings part of the Spanish culture because my great-grandfather was Spanish. Before Cuba emerged, in "the Spanish" as I called it Colon when it was discovered, there were diverse types of cultures, from aboriginal, African, and Spanish culture. Cuban is the union of the African and Spanish cultures A great part of my culture is modesty because it makes me a good person, full of qualities. This part of my culture I learned from the education of my parents, it is very important to…

The “American Dream” is reality for anyone willing to work for it no matter where you come from or obstacles that get in your way. This is true for, Cuban-American, Danell Leyva a U.S. Men’s Gymnastics Olympian. He was successful despite health issues and those who doubted him. If it wasn’t for Gymnasts before him he might not of gotten to live the life he does and get the chances he has gotten. Danell Leyva was born on October 30th, 1991 in Cardenas, Cuba to Johan Leyva and Maria Gonzalez. At…

American’s sympathy for the Cubans was unlikely to have been solely due to humanitarian impulses because whites invoked racial beliefs to justify denying self-government to people of color. Moreover, impoverished and disenfranchised people in the U.S. itself did not have much of a political voice. Positive masculine portrayals of the Cuban Revolutionaries as chivalrous knights deflected attention from these negative racial stereotypes. Press accounts portrayed the Cubans as chivalric knights,…

Themes are essential tools used by authors to convey or sometimes emphasize specific messages in novels. In the two novels that will be compared are Under the Feet of Jesus and Dreaming in Cuban, the authors have embraced their themes to reflect on the messages regarding the bigger picture of migration and adolescence. This paper will offer a comparative thematic analysis of the two texts about migration and adolescence. To achieve this, the paper will focus on two different themes which are…

Utopia (1995), Tyack and Cuban correctly argue that the fundamental nature of public schooling has not changed in the 20th century. The way schooling is organized, or the “grammar” of public schools, is relatively the same as when our parents and grandparents attended. The subjects studied, appearance of the buildings, start and end times, organization of leadership and staff, and length of the classes remains essentially unchanged. (Tyack and Cuban, 1995, p. 85) Tyack and Cuban describe the…

were many social reforms in Cuban society, including gender reforms for women. Different people took different stances on the subject of female equality within Cuba; there was a group of people that supported gender reforms in Cuba and thought these reforms to be successful, a group consisting of people that supported gender reforms in Cuba but thought them to be unsuccessful, ands group of people that completely opposed the idea of gender reforms in Cuba. During the Cuban Revolution, many…

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 war consisted of a…