Cubans

Gladiatorial Journal 3/21/37 - My first day at the gladiatorial school in Rome was unpleasant to say the least. I was a prisoner of war, and my name was Caiu. I was born in Sicily and was captured during the Sicilian Revolt. First, I was assessed by the Lanista, which was the owner of the gladiatorial school. They referred me as ‘novicius,’ which was what all the new recruits were called. After being assessed by the Lanista, I was checked by the doctor or Medici. They checked my physical…

“Large-scale migration from the Dominican Republic to the United States began in the 1960s, in the wake of economic and political turbulence that occurred after dictator Rafael Trujillo was killed by rebels in 1961 and the U.S. military and other government agencies intervened” (Chiamaka Nwosu, Jeanne Batalova). Trujillo also known as “El Jefe” was an extremely brutal dictator whom is responsible for massive amounts of massacre killings. He who cheated his way into power brung fear amongst the…

Afro Cuban Jazz, now known as Latin Jazz umbrellas a wide range of music including the following. Obsesión by David Sánchez, Tumbao para los congueros di mi vida by Al McKibbon, Alma de Santiago by Jane Bunnett, Nocturne by Charlie Haden and About the Monks by Dafnis Prieto, are a diverse collection of recordings which all fall under Latin Jazz. In the early 21st century Latin Jazz had become one of the most diverse styles in the world of Jazz. But it didn’t just happen at the click of a finger…

States did not engage in physical combat or directly battle during the Cold War, they continually antagonized each other through political and economic clashes. One of the biggest and most memorable confrontations of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest point that the United States and the Soviet Union came to not only having a military conflict but a full out a nuclear war. It was a 13 day standoff over the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba.…

The Ministry of Interior is responsible for Cuba’s various methods of surveillance, to wit: “undercover agents, informers, rapid response brigades (RRB’s), and neighborhood-based Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR’s).” (Winslow). The Cuban government previously provided rewards to the citizens who partook in their various surveillance groups; however, at one point, due to economic hardship, they were no longer able to do so, which lead to a disinclination from the citizens to…

around with. This is not the first time the United States had have an issue with nuclear weapons in history. “In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union risked nuclear confrontation in an event known as the Cuban Missile Crisis”. “A confrontation that involve Washington, D.C.; Moscow, Soviet Union; and the main one Cuba. The conflict started with Fidel Castro which marked the end of U.S. political and economic dominance over Cuba. Ever since the late…

President JFK spoke on the Cuban Missile Crisis, making it known that Cuba have harmful weapons that were threatening to the US “Cuba has been made into an important strategic base by the presence of these long-range offense weapons of sudden mass destruction”(Doc 19). JFK implied that Cuba was taking military measures against the US and there would be something done to stop the missiles before potential attacks. In an interview, Genoveva Hernandez, a teen daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary…

split up and I remained with my mother. Yimnel and Stacey were both relatively young, 21 and 22, when I was born. Over time, I grew closer and closer to my father’s family; after my 2nd birthday I moved in with my father. I loved living around my Cuban family. As I grew up, I became bilingual. At school I learned English, and at home I learned Spanish. My father married Belia Araceli Arellano in 1999, she was from Hermosillo, Mexico. They married in August, nine months later my first sister,…

communism, Cuba was the first Communist state in the entire western hemisphere, because they thought communism was bad. During the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. The Missile Crisis lasted only thirteen days, but the tensions were very high between Cuba and America. They both threatened each other with nuclear weapons, none delivered. The Cuban Missile Crisis made the Cold War almost become violent. The crisis ended in thirteen days. Prior to this crisis, a small battle broke…

Twenty-First-Century Perspective”. Accounting to the struggles of migration while giving a clear emphasis and that not every refugee is treated the same. Lillian gathers her information through the timelines of many great migrations like the rush of Cuban migrants during Castro 's dictatorship and the search of Dominicans and other South American due to the poor living conditions and dangerous lives that they 've lived. The main points LillIan’s chapter with in the book was the huge emphasis on…