Dominican Republic

merge together socially. As a society undergoes assimilation, differences among groups decrease” In my own words, assimilation is the way to adapt into a new/different environment that you’re not use in being in. For example, when I went to the Dominican…

Passing and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao place an emphasis on physical features. Although both novels take place in different times and settings, both novels are creating and representing women as exotic sexualized objects because of their gender and race. Larsen and Diaz’s emphasis on the blackness of female characters demonstrates the timelessness of the importance of skin color. Irene’s thoughts when she sees Clare: “Did that woman, could that woman, somehow know that here before…

slaughtered him ruthlessly. This unjust treatment lasted from 1933 to 1945. Twelve years of suffering of millions of individuals due to the choice to pursue authoritarianism. 4,812 miles away, Rafael Trujillo, another dictator, reigned over the Dominican Republic. The country was poor and needed something or someone to take them out of their economic slump. This allowed Trujillo to develop the roots of his reign in the hearts of the people by expanding the economy, funding public works, and…

Heights. As many New Yorkers know, many of the residents in Washington Heights are immigrants (i.e. first, second, or third generation immigrants) from the Dominican Republic. Thus, the vast majority of my students are from the Dominican Republic, and they can speak both English and Spanish. Each day, I learn something new about the Dominican culture, and how this culture is similar and different from the other Caribbean islands like the one I come from, Jamaica. However, as I am becoming more…

story about a guy named Oscar Wao and his adventures. One of the major theme is supernatural or superstition, Fuku Americanus. Yunior the narrator, introduces the book with this curse. So many of the characters have troubles upon the Fuku in the Dominican Republic due to the dictator, Trujilllo. Even though he was assassinated, his spirit lurks and he represents the curse. The Fuku curse has a great impact on the main character, Oscar. The curse also ties to the theme love because the Fuku feeds…

eyes see is darkness.” This quote perfectly describes Patria who is one of the sisters in the book, In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. This novel takes place in the 1900’s in the Dominican Republic while it was under the rule of Trujillo. Trujillo ran a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic for over 30 years with strict rules and harsh punishments. The story follows the real lives of the Mirabal sisters and each chapter is through one of their perspectives. Their family is…

Since moving from Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico when I was 11 years old, my live has been different in a good way. When my mom decided we were going to move to Puerto Rico, I was excited because I really liked the country and the people there. For my little brother was a new adventure, a new school, new classmates and what he liked most was that his school was close to the beach. He wanted to go every day after school. Even though my first year in school at Colegio Espiritu Santo was really…

Independence The Dominican Rebublic The tyrant Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ousted the chose president of the Dominican Republic in 1930 and remained in power for the next thirty-one years. Trujillo could profit by a tide of hostile to American assessment, the result of the way that the U.S. Marines had possessed that nation in 1916 and, after their withdrawal in 1924, the U.S. powers held control of the Customs Department Until his destruction in 1961 Trujillo would advance the Dominican…

We all have a reason why we do things. Some are better, nobler, or more profitable but at the end of the day, we all have a reason. In the medical field, we have a lot of different individuals that do, in general, a similar job but we can all agree that, most of the time, the patient’s health is the doctor’s hands. Doctors need to have some sort of finesse, but they also need vocation. Some doctors are in for the wrong reasons, such as money, prestige, and even fame. A doctor’s only interest…

Persecutions and the violence directed to her people by the invaders were the norms. Haiti’s history has not been in the limelight, perhaps due to the distance from far countries such as the United States of America. Some countries such as the Dominican Republic and Spain has refuted the cruel historical happenings in Haiti because they are the ones who inflict physical, psychological and emotional torture to the Haitians. On the “Children of the Sea”, the story talks about lovers…