Dominican Republic

In addition to the struggles faced in the Dominican Republic, Beli faces similar conflicts when she moved to the United States. She met a man on the plane who eventually became her husband. Beli had two children with this man, Oscar and Lola, but then left alone by him and living in poverty, she never loved another again. The relationships that Beli had during her adolescence, as well as her young adult life, proved to be toxic. Jack Pujols used Beli for sex and played her to the point where she…

Migration, Race, Identity in the Dominican Republic is a cultural experience to explore the intersections of race, culture, and identity and immigration in the Dominican Republic. We will explore the relationship from colonial times times to present and learn more about cultural events such as the Haitian Revolution. From this we will presumably have a better understanding of how the two nations were shaped by racism and fear. I believe this will be a phenomenal experience for me as my main goal…

service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless” (Billy Graham). This quote describes mission trips well, and it applies to the ones I have been on. I have gone on 5 mission trips so far: The Dominican Republic three times, Honduras, Haiti, and Ecuador. I am able to have gone on so many because my youth group goes to these places, along with other places. During my summer going into 9th grade I had the opportunity to go to the DR to help…

consecutive year of the economic crisis which has motivated that the immigration of the Dominicans diminish, added that the economic conditions in the Dominican Republic in comparison with previous years has improved allowing more Dominicans can improve their quality of life in their own country. From the beginning of the thirties, where we can point out that there was an immigration of Puerto Ricans to the Dominican Republic to work mostly in the cane industry, we could say that from that date…

In 1930, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina gained control of the Dominican Republic through questionable means, becoming head of police and then president, his regime was well recognized for its oppressive tactics and effective means of keeping the population controlled, by the time he was deposed and assassinated in 1961, he had been responsible for the deaths of as many as 50,000 Dominicans (U.S DoS), meaning that 1 in 66 was executed. As his time as president continued, more opposition grew,…

The Amazing Journey to Dominican Republic My trip to Dominican Republic was really exciting, awesome, and an experience that I’ll never forget. When I went to Dominican Republic, or in Spanish, Punta Cana, I got to learn lots of cool and very interesting things. In this personal narrative, I will be telling you all of the great, or crazy experiences that I had at Dominican Republic. If you don’t know where in the world that the country is located, it is on the east coast off of Puerto Rico.…

such a beautiful April. The year was 2012 and my mother wanted to fly to Dominican Republic for the spring break as usual. She bought the flights for April 5th to the 12th. I was thirteen years old, but had a mind and an appearance of an older person. Nobody could 've said I was younger than 16. It had been four summers in New York with my father. It was about time I got out. When I finally arrived in The Dominican Republic, I felt so alive. As you exit the airplane, you could already smell the…

The island of Hispaniola, of which the Dominican Republic forms the eastern half was initially inhabited by Arawak natives from the Orinoco delta region of South America before the Spanish arrived in 1492 as part of Columbus’s first expedition to the Americas. In the ensuing conquest the native people of the island were all but destroyed by war and disease and in 1510 the Spanish began importing slaves from Africa to deal with the growing labour shortage in the country’s increasingly important…

My best childhood memory is from when I traveled out of the country for the first time with both my parents. I had traveled numerous times before to the Dominican Republic, but only with my dad while my mom stayed in New Jersey. This changed in the fourth grade, when I was 10 years old, and I traveled to the Dominican Republic with both my mom and dad. My mom had never been there before and it was going to be a new experience for all of us. Although I had traveled before, the only places I…

The country I have chosen to explore and discuss in this paper is the Dominican Republic. The topic I will be discussing is development in the country of Dominican Republic through neoliberal globalization, transnational corporations, the government and how it has affected citizens. I ultimately decided to explore this topic through my research. I researched globalization and how it has affected Dominican Republic. I came upon two sources for my information an article by Diego Sanchez “Domestic…