Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic In October of 2016 I went on an amazing vacation to the Dominican Republic. We were going with my Dad’s side of the family so there there 14 people that went including my Grandma Neicy, Papa Kelly, Aunts Kiley and Annika, Uncle Aaron, Chris, my cousins Charley, Marley, and Bowen, and of course my Mum, Dad, brother Cade, and sister Keira. We started the trip with a whole day of traveling, kicking it off at 6:30 am. We went to Atlanta as our connecting flight, then we were…

Groceries Food that are in my kitchen Rice, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, coffee, oatmeal, milk, orange juice, passion fruit juice, bread. My story When I was young, and living in the Dominican Republic, my mom and dad used to go to the supermarket every week, most of the time on Saturday’s mornings. As children, my siblings and I were always expecting for candies, cookies, juice, yogurt, all the sweet stuff. My parents bought all those things. However, they were very strict regarding when and how…

anyone who is born on the island is a citizen with the exception of the people placed in the category called “those in transit.” The Dominican authorities has taken and used this exception to their advantage in refusing papers and passports of the Haitians even if their parents were born in Dominican Republic. As the article states in September 2013, the Dominican court laid the law stating in the “La Cuestión Haitiana” that if you were born in the group “those in transit” you are not considered…

sisters who dared to cross the brutal dictator of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo. Her novel gives a historical accounting of the dictator’s reign of terror and at the same time adds fiction in keeping with the culture of the Dominican Culture at that time. The overall story is one of politics and power through violence but also a story of family and the struggles within the family unit. The novel uses the times and life in the Dominican Republic to portray the details in the lives of the…

Born and raised in New York City, it is easy to say that it is common for one to go to a Dominican hair salons located throughout uptown Manhattan. Growing up I have always gotten my hair done by Dominican women, and getting my hair cut involved constant compliments of having “pelo muy bueno” and other women trying to convince me to not cut it. But what made my hair so special to be held in a high throne for it to be too good to cut, why did these women not appreciate their own hair as much? The…

The Dominican Republic and Haiti share the Island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean, jointly occupying a space of less than 30,000 square miles. Despite their close proximity, the differences between the two are abundant: whereas Haitians take strong pride in their African roots and speak Creole, Dominicans pay homage to Spain as their motherland, and speak Spanish. The list of differences between the peoples of the two peoples is large, yet the roots of these cultural dissimilarities lie in…

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 into the Dominican Republic. Many times this part suffered a lot of identity changes, in 1801 France took it, in 1808 regained by the Spain and in 1822 it was annexed by Haiti. Haiti domination and rule was not a calm and good period for the Dominican…

In Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies four sisters join an underground resistance group against the cruel dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo. The plight faced by all Dominicans at the time was a disgrace to human rights. Many lived in poverty due to the dictatorship that controlled the country. Those who spoke out against the totalitarian regime disappeared and were usually never seen again. It was very brave for anyone to stand up to the government for what was…

Leónidas Trujillo Molina Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina was the former dictator of the Dominican republic. His prolong reign over the Dominican people lasted for over 30 years of hard authoritative and imperious behavior among the Dominican Republic. He could possibly be blamed for the death of over 50,000 people. 20,000 of which occured in the Parsley Massacre. Although due to his brutality the Dominican republic did however maintained solidity and success as a country. The price of that was…

European expansion had a dramatic impact on the cultural traditions, health, and religion of the Dominican people. The European countries had the expectations that their invasion should promote the European cultural tradition and this changed the structural characteristics such as religion and language for the Dominican Republic. Most Dominicans learned the personal language so that they could get the opportunity of economic mobility. Moreover, the Christian missionaries were much concerned with…