Irish immigration to Puerto Rico

Furthermore, Latino media in America also has a strong influence over how populations are perceived in a society. In “Closing the Telenovela’s Borders: Vivo por Elena’s Tidy Nation,” scholar Adriana Estill analyses Latino telenovelas as a platform where “nationality, nationalism, and Nation are produced and reproduced” (Estill 75). Through government involvement and censorship, telenovelas can create “an ideal space where the ideal citizen is constructed and disseminated” (Estill 85). Racial…

Once upon a time in a struggling age lived African Americans. Facing a difficult life already, talents by them were not recognized. Musically, athletically, and generally them as individuals were looked down upon. They were worthless according to the white race. African Americans as individuals were seen as inferior to whites. Nothing was heard of in the 1920s of an African American being successful, including in professional sports. Baseball back then was a white man 's sport. Yet, when African…

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…

The United States of America has a long American Indian history. These people were the first people to inhabit the new world or the Western Hemisphere of the Earth. South Dakota is the current home of the Sioux Nation tribe. South Dakota has ten reservations located in our state, one that covers part of Nebraska (Johnston, n.d., para. 4). South Dakota is one of the many states where American Indian traditions are still celebrated. Through all the struggles and the triumphant Sioux pride has…

This article is a thought – provoking and articulate depiction of how writers have captured the life and story of Emmitt Till, a young black boy who was kidnapped, horrifically brutalized, tortured, taunted, and eventually murdered by two white men. Within the article, the author, Chris Metress, takes a journey through the American judicial system during the year of 1955. It also describes the influence that Emmett Till’s death had on the Civil Rights Movement and subsequent African American…

The book War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson Denis looks into the actions of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party during the 20th century and how it affected US-PR relations. As time went on and the US still occupied Puerto Rico, the North American imposed government in the island was faced with several uprisings against it let by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and its leader, Pedro Albizu Campos. Albizu Campos organized the agricultural workers of the island and executed and agricultural…

culture and Puerto Rican culture, one can see many similarities and many differences. Both cultures are considered Hispanic or Latino. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans make up the largest group of Hispanics and Latino’s in America, but the Mexicans are 10x more populated than Puerto Ricans. The Infant Mortality Rate for Mexicans is 12.23 for every 1,000 births while it is 7.57 for every 1,000 births for Puerto Ricans. Also, the Life expectancy of Mexican males is 72.6 and females 78 while the Puerto…

To begin, I will be raising the question and asking, What was money like for African Americans in the late nineteen hundreds? My hypothesis to this issue is, to make money, you must have some connection that will get you a job for a decent amount of cash to live off. As I read the required books, In the nineteen hundred there were no such thing as a man to have a “connection” for the African Americans. Therefore, this is because of the extreme racism going on. When no one wanted to hire an…

“Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately.” Therefore, to explore the resistance and the effects of globalization in the Dominican Republic and to address the…

good example of differences in speech. In the United States there are people from many different Hispanic countries such as: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and others. The people from each of these countries have different dialects. For example, Puerto Ricans and Cubans have different names for the same things. We Cubans say "pomo de leche" while the Puerto Ricans say "bobo." Both words mean baby bottle. But even having so many different dialects inside the U.S., we still are able to…