Music of Cuba

came into power over Cuba for the second time. Politically and militarily supported by the United States, Batista became anti-communist and allowed American business to dominate the Cuban economy (Wikipedia.org). Batista’s tyrannical rule motivated Fidel Castro, a revolutionary, to overthrow his dictatorship. As the new Castro government self-proclaimed they were Marxist-Leninists, US relations with Cuba dissolved (History.com). Castro nationalized all American businesses in Cuba and developed…

Globalization of Christianity in the South has been a prime focus and intrigue for the past couple of decades, more so now than before. Concerns regarding the preservation of Christianity rises as Christian influence of the public sphere in the Europe and North America dwindle while the spread of Islam rises. However, there is still hope for the Christian Religion, specifically the Protestant churches as Christianity spreads fervently in continents such as Africa, Asia and South America. However…

History Of Latinos In America”. Yet they couldn 't stop the tide of immigration as these South American countries kept getting worse. Back in the late 19th century was very different says “Harvest Of Empire* there was “100,000 people, 10 percent of Cuba 's population, fled abroad to escape the upheavals of the independence war.” (Gonzales 109) but this was the early 19th century that sure does not have an effect on current or previous happenings right? Wrong, the first 100,000 Cubans who came…

In 1959 after years of revolution Fidel Castro had overthrown dictator Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba and an American- backed ally. Batista was a corrupt leader and had very pro-American stance in policy making. These allowed U.S companies to completely dominate the Cuban sugar business. At the time U.S companies and wealthy individuals not only controlled the sugar business but also various cattle ranches,mines and other fields of the Cuban economy. Batista was very anti-communist.…

Latin American colonies during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a hotbed of resentment and discontent among the lower castes of society. Indigenous and slave populations were brutalized and exploited in order to fill the coffers of aristocratic elites and foreign monarchies. Somewhere in the middle, a growing population of mixed-race ethnic groups found themselves ostracized and struggling to find their niche in life. News of foreign events and new philosophies and ideologies…

This review will focus on the film 12 Years a Slave and how it exposes the horrid enterprise of slavery, including the re-enslavement process and the generally horrid living and working conditions.. I hope to learn more about the actual events of Solomon Northup’s life as I look into the differences between the novel and the movie. Between 1619 and 1865, African-Americans had to deal with multiple injustices; socially, they were often looked down upon by white people, politically they had no say…

Guevara adamantly proposed that women should be able to fight in the revolution as they had the discipline, and characteristics to fulfill a sufficient role. Che Guevara wanted women to participate in the revolution because of the outdated attitudes Cuba harbored women, race, individualism, and manual labor. According to Joseph Hart, author of 2010 novel Che The Life, Death, and Aftermath of a Revolutionary , Guevara urged all individuals to view each other as equals and take on the values of…

Cultural discrepancies always play a role when it comes to conflicts. For example, language act as a barrier when trying to get ideas across and are often at the root of all miscommunications. Excluding background differences, all people are human. They feel, they cry, they tend and they’re especially prone to mistakes and hypocrisy. In the novel, The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, a white boy growing up in a Native American tribe is to determine where his true loyalties lie. The…

Plot Summary: “The Old Man and The Sea,” written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1952, relates the difficult life of an old Cuban fisherman that struggles in his profession for a long period of time until he catches the biggest fish in his life. The story begins presenting readers the fact that Santiago, the old fisherman, has been eighty-four days without catching a fish. This uncomfortable situation leads Manolin, a teenager who works with Santiago, to leave him under his father’s…

Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDs in the Dominican Republic, by Mark Padilla, explores the social and economic effects of the Dominican Republic’s dependency on the tourism industry, particularly as they relate to male sex workers. The abundance of opportunity in the tourism industry—as opposed to the lack thereof in, per se, agriculture—all but forces migration of the middle class and the poor to urban areas, where they can easily access popular tourist destinations,…