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Felix Moreta Mr. Saleeba English 4 October 13, 2017 Rafael Trujillo Rafael Trujillo may be a bad man, but that does not take away the fact that what got him there made him a great leader. To some he will always be remembered as a horrible person. To me he will always be remembered as a guy who got to where he wanted to be by putting effort some people would not dare to put in. Rafael Trujillo was born on October 24, 1891 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic. His name was Rafael Leonidas…

Normalizing relations would also have the benefit of opening up opportunities in the medical industry. Cuba’s healthcare system is well regarded for its overall excellence over most civilized countries. “Cuba’s biotech research effort has produced a variety of products ranging from vaccines and cancer therapy drugs to fetal monitoring equipment, and now holds 400 patents in the biotech field”( Aitsiselmi pg.1). The easing of policies can open up more avenues of cooperation and the exchanging of…

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia follows the lives of three generations of the del Pino family in the United States and in Cuba as they progress through the Cuban Revolution. Stylistically, the novel jumps between time periods, points of view, and characters, forcing the reader to be extremely attentive. Celia is the mother of Lourdes, Javier, and Felicia and is married to Jorge del Pino. The two seem to conflict ideologically as Celia supports the revolution and Jorge supports the American…

Given the Cuban history on the prohibition of not just music but literally everything that comes in the way of the ruling of the two leaders of the country since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the brothers Fidel and Raul Castro, few scholars got interested in the current situation in Cuba when it comes to the reggaeton. Although scholars are not optimists that Cuba can be the next Puerto Rico when it comes to reggaeton or that reggaeton will ever become part of the Cuban culture as it happened…

Alliteration and hyphenate is greatly used in The American Pageant in order to enhance the history of The United States. In this excerpt which describes Kennedy’s New Frontier, the author uses big numbers, alliteration, and hyphenates as descriptive devices in order for students to categorize the given information as positive or negative and unknowingly have a set view on this topic in history. Some examples from The American Pageant include, “A stampede of 43,129,566 Johnson votes trampled the…

President Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech Analysis John F Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States was one of the most famous presidents of the country. On January 20, 1961, President Kennedy gave an Inaugural Address which is still remembered to this day. His speech was around a period when the Soviet Union had just gained power. Americans were fearful due to that reason. The main purpose of his speech was to get Americans to unite. He was calling for peace for all of mankind. Kennedy’s main…

The United States and Cuba have had a history marred by conflicts, but is this justification for the U.S to isolate Cuba? The Cuban embargo was designed to destroy Cuba’s post-revolutionary government, yet the Castro regime is still in power and both the American and Cuban governments have been damaged; therefore, Congress should lift the Cuban embargo. The United States and Cuba were once strong trade partners who relied on one another. By the late 1800s, the United States was purchasing…

“Harrison Bergeron” is a fictitious story written by Kurt Vonnegut in October of 1961. During the time period in which it was published, the Soviet Union (USSR) was still in power. The Soviet Union was a communist society that used force from “secret police”, whose main objective was to censor the people. The story “Harrison Bergeron” has a similar approach set in a dystopian society in the year 2081. In this society “Everybody was finally equal....Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody…

Inauguration is a formal custom in which Americans gather to mark the start of their chief executive. For first term presidents, it is custom since 1789 to provide the people with an inaugural address, in which gratitude, motives, and visions are commenced. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as the 35th president, served from January 1962 till his assassination in 1963. Other than the fact that Kennedy marked as another president in our history books, it is taken into consideration, his…

“This War is About Information” The practice of perception management was prevalent throughout the Cold War, both on the side of the United States of America and of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. As such, both sides had to implement ways in which to hide and process information so that their country could gain an advantage. Stephen Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is able to clearly and succinctly present the practice of perception management through the characters Rudolf Abel and…