Latin American culture

Have you ever thought Cubans had the same life style as us Americans? Well that is not exactly true. There are many similarities and differences between Cubans and Americans. We were given many amounts of information and we were also told to find the many differences and similarities of Cubans and Americans. Cuba has many differences between America. This is because as shown on (http://country-facts.findthedata.com/compare/1-18/United-States-vs-Cuba) Cuba has a 3.3 chance of an unemployment…

Brazil is the biggest country in South America and also one of the biggest countries in the world. Due to Brazil’s size it boarders all of the countries in South America except for Ecuador and Chile. Brazil has many natural resources available in the country. Outside of the traditional cocoa and coffee, Brazil is also a major exporter of soybeans, oranges and many other warm climate crops. Brazil has some of the world’s largest iron ore deposits and is now considered one of the biggest gold…

The Haitian Revolution destroyed Haiti’s international relations causing an economic crisis and socioeconomic inequality, thus counteracting the liberties gained by the revolution. 1. As a newly freed nation of former slaves, the Western world felt threatened by Haiti’s new transformation inducing an international withdraw from commercial relations with nation. 2. With an international boycott of Haitian goods, Haiti financially struggled after losing their main source of revenue. 3. Desperate…

Throughout the world’s existence, there have been many men that have rewritten the course of history. Not many of these men, however, can compare to Simon Bolivar, a man of legend. El Libertador (translates to English as The Liberator), the soldier who liberated the modern-day countries of Columbia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and his homeland, Venezuela, is remembered fondly in his home continent, and for good reason. The world as we know it would not be if it were not for the revolutionary mind…

“Within the first 100 years of the Europeans landing in the Americas, nine-tenths of the natives died out because of diseases the Europeans brought with them, such as smallpox and the plague. Corn, chocolate, and hemp were some goods that the Europeans got from the Americas. Most Spanish men were obsessed with three things: Gold, God, and Glory. To obtain these things, they had to go to the Americas. Hernan Cortes, a Spaniard, heard about El Dorado and went to Mexico in 1519 to find it. He ran…

immigrate to the US to start over after they lost their multigenerational family farm to the potato blight famine (The W and P 96). From Ellis Island, Ole and Solveig traveled west along the Mississippi river until they were chased away by Native Americans defending their territory. They changed direction and traveled by covered wagon to northern Iowa to a small town called Saude.…

liberation it led the world in the production of sugar, coffee, rum, cotton and indigo … this made Haiti the world’s richest colony and the busiest trade center in the New World and the total exports to France exceeded the total exports of all thirteen American colonies to Great Britain (Phillips, pp. 6-9). Because Haiti was the only liberated black republic during the era of atrocious colonial…

Lloyd Velasco Mrs. Nieves Spanish 05 February 2018 Rafael 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…

Spaniards ran into many civilizations of Native Americans. Soon afterwards, the Spaniards started to conquer the lands and take over the Native Americans. The Spaniard’s easily overwhelmed and conquered the Native Americans for three main reasons. The Native Americans were too friendly, the Spaniards had weapons, and the Spaniards were also driven by greed and violence. One of the main reasons that the Spaniards took over so easily is that the Native Americans were too friendly.…

According to princeton.edu, Magical realism by definition is an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements are blended into a realistic atmosphere in order to access a deeper understanding of reality. In the movie “Like Water for Chocolate”, magical realism acts through the cooking of Tita. Tita put so much emotions through her cooking that all those who consumed it felt the exact same emotion that Tita felt while making the food they ate. That’s how they portrayed the magical…