Irish Republic

think about diversity at my school in Washington 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…

Roman civilization is well known for their expansion of an empire and their acts of war against surrounding cities. Christopher Mackay describes the wars that Rome fought in to gain their dominance. One war that Mackay talks about is the war that Rome fought against themselves between the military and the political systems. He brings the history of Rome to life by starting in the early stages of just a city in the Italian peninsula and ending with the fall of once the greatest empire in the…

what that sign says LITERALLY. You know that you are on Pearse Street, you Americans. It’s named after me Great-Uncle Padraig Pearse.” He paced the floor‒deliberately looking back and forth‒going from Lane to Blair. “Pearse was the founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He met many times in this very room, but for what? Along came the IRA and so many other liberation organizations down the road. All wanting to free Ireland of British rule, aye they did. Did it work? Hell no.…

Caesar’s youth, the republic of Rome was very unstable. It no longer gave the due respect to its nobility and lacked the ability to handle its growing size and influence. In an effort to side with the nobility, Caesar then married Cornelia, the daughter of a nobleman. This angered Sulla, the current dictator of Rome. He forced Caesar to either divorce Cornelia or risk losing property. Not liking either choice, Caesar refused to decide and joined the military.…

British Parliament has developed through somewhere in the range of three hundred years of history. In Britain, it can be the main institution which practices sovereign forces and on which there are no restrictions in light of the fact that there is no written constitution. In Indian system, there is a written constitution and authorities and powers of each organ of Government and each functionary are just as characterized and delimited by the constitutional archive. The strength of Parliament…

one of the most controversial and talked about topics in today’s society. Discrimination exists across the whole spectrum from those who are members of the LGBT community to those who are seen as ethnic minorities in America. Whereas the Dominican Republic is extremely tolerant of those who are members of the LGBT and that there are always events going on supporting them on the islands. I was surprised to find out that despite attending a small school of about 400 students, Edgardo knew a good…

of her life in the Dominican Republic, then assimilated into American culture. In the Dominican Republic she was a doctor of medicine, she practiced there for five years until she married her second husband, who was an American citizen. Mara had three children from a prior marriage, and when she was pregnant with her fourth child her and her husband, Tony, decided they wanted to give their children a better upbringing than may have been possible in the Dominican Republic. Since she wasn’t…

you know that the Roman Republic was only a little bit democratic? The Roman Republic was from 509 BC to 27 BC that's 482 years. They was located in and around the Mediterranean Sea. The Rome Republic can be interpreted many ways, a little bit democratic but not much, because they were strong in voting but they are weak in some points like not having a leader and having a government that starts with a group of leader and goes down to a slave. They vote in the roman republic which is…

countries. From 1822 to 1844 Haiti had complete control of the entire island. Trujillo used this twenty year period as a point of reference to blame Dominican problems on the Haitians. He often said that before the Haitian control of the Dominican Republic, the Dominicans were blond hair and blue eyed. Although Trujillo is no longer in office the feeling of “black as bad” is still present in the Dominican culture. This feeling is emphasized anytime Haiti is having problems. When Haiti is…

The events of the Hoplite reform and the strengthening claim for isonomia inevitably reshaped the social and political structure of the polis. The mindset developed in the interior of the phalanx and the ensuing political capital acquired by the middle class represented a threat to the aristocratic claim to power. Nonetheless, the transition to democracy was far from expedite and such form of government arose only after Kleisthenes’ reforms. Ironically, the aristocracy played a crucial and…