Municipalities of Puerto Rico

PUERTO RICO Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Ocean. It is the smallest of the Greater Antilles Islands, which include Cuba (the largest), Haiti and the República Dominicana (sharing an island), and Jamaica. Puerto Rico is only 100 miles long by 35 miles wide. It is 1000 miles from Miami. The island of Puerto Rico is a very popular tourist destination because of its location, rich history and warm atmostphere.. Before the Spaniards discovered Puerto Rico, it was populated by Taíno…

Are you trying to move out and don’t know where? Are you trying to find a great place to retire, or enjoy a great vacation? Then you lucky to be reading this article because after reading this article you will have the answer to all your questions Panama. Panama is the best country to be in, there is nice people, nice music, and an overall nice environment. There is great food, good housing, and a great place to raise a family. Panama is an easy country to just jump in to and have a good time,…

For my interview I chose to interview my 56 year old aunt Mara, from my mom’s side of the family. We share similarities in that we are both Dominican-American, the difference being that I was born here, where she lived the first thirty-Five years 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…

Short Critical Response “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” In the book, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”, by Julia Alvarez shows the lives of four sisters who struggle with finding their own identities in American culture. The four girls named Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia were forced to move out of the Dominican Republic when they were young girls and now struggle to adapt to a new culture that is much different from their social norms. The elements of the text that I…

My person is Gloria Estefan. She is a Singer-songwriter. She was born in Havana, Cuba. Born on September 1, 1957. She is still alive in age 58. As a toddler Estefan fled Cuba with her family. As a child Estefan liked to write poetry and she took classical guitar lessons, she found tedious. She was the lead singer for Miami Sound Machine that made top charts in the 1980s and 1990s. She was named the “Queen of Latin Pop”. She was also a seven-time grammy winner. In 1994 she won a Grammy award…

four hurricane named Maria struck the small island of Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria caused catastrophic destruction to the island of about 3.5 million people. Hurricane Maria caused massive flooding, destroyed thousands of homes and structures, severely damaged the communications system, poisoned the water system, and disabled the country’s power grid. Hurricane Maria would be categorized as one of the strongest storm to roll across Puerto Rico. This review will discuss the issues of preparation,…

Interviewee’s First Name: Angel Interviewee’s country of origin: Puerto Rico Interviewee’s native language: Spanish The person I chose to interview for the interview project was 65-year-old Angel from Puerto Rico. He’s the kind janitor working for Parks and Recreation for my city park and my coworker and friend. The first question I asked Angel was “When did they come to the United states?”, he joked that he came here similar to…

violent impression that the image tries to convey. On the upper right side of the image it can be found the logo of the campaign, and on the left side there is a text that contains the name of a song called “en la cama” or “in the bed” sang by the Puerto Rican reggaeton singer, Daddy Yankee, whose name appears in bold, and a short extract of…

Lugar maravilloso-Wonderful place. Dominican republic culture brings great intersest to expecially because I’ve never been there. My grandfather was born in Dominican a was raised in New York by his granparents. I was raised speaking fluent Spanish and eating a lot of Spanish food. I moved from a private school to a public school,and over time I lost the ability to speak Spanish. I also lost the liking in all of the Spanish foods. Dominican republic is a little country located above Venezuela…

I used to live on Irving Street, right on the border of Queens and Brooklyn. The Mexicanos and Puertorriqueños called it el barrio— the neighborhood. A place where they could hide from white supremacy and racism while enjoying themselves with their people, and, boy, did they know how to party. Coke, pot, meth, whatever your debauchery required. This was the place to get it. It was a paradise, that is, if it was your barrio. If you weren’t a part of them, you were nothing and nothing does not…