Puerto Rican people

business to find sustained success it has to be led by a person with a go-get-em attitude and the iron will to work as long as it takes to achieve their goals. One such individual you may or may not of heard of is Emanuel “Manny” Hernandez. This Puerto Rican businessman has achieved more than he ever thought possible. I recently had the pleasure of sitting down one-on-one with Manny to learn just what led to the success he has found. Manny’s Hernandez’s Success: Manny has achieved his success…

no culture has an influence remembered today, or to even begin with, didn’t have an influence. Nevertheless, Despacito, a song composed and sung by two Puerto Rican artists, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has been an international hit for several months, with over four billion views on YouTube, being the most watched song. The setting, being in Puerto Rico and having “the Latino feeling and flavor”, Despacito is known for having upbeat reggaetón and Hispanic music, Latino rhythm, and lyrics that…

I feel as if I could walk in any day and talk to the people that work there and ask for advice on issues they could relate with. More importantly, the center feels like home and it feels nice to fit so easily and perfectly into a place. Although, my time at the University of Connecticut has been great so far…

Birth To begin, both of my parents were born and raised in the Dominican Republic, living about 30 minutes away from each other, yet they met in the neighboring island of Puerto Rico. Even though I consider myself Dominican, since both of my families are so, I was born in Puerto Rico. More specifically, I was born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, on Monday, April 14, 1997 at 9am in the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital. I consider myself to have a dual identity because of this, being part of two cultures at the…

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…

Carolina, Puerto Rico is home to a man named Roberto Clemente, who lived there for eighteen years. After high school, he said goodbye to this town and moved on to the United States. In the US Roberto Clemente signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, who gave him a 10,000 dollar signing bonus, which was very high. After some technicalities, the Dodgers lost Roberto Clemente to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished in last place the previous season. Roberto Clemente was a very successful player. Roberto…

night so it was hard for the media to conceal the real identity of the wretched beast. Early shepherds of the Puerto Rican territory were devastated when they discovered this atrocious beast. Through the years, there have been historical findings that date back to the 1990s (Thompson 17). Stories about the mysterious beast known as the "chupacabra" began surfacing in March of 1995 in Puerto Rico (AP Online). Recently, there have been missing reports of livestock and death reports of wild…

Spanish. Speaking broken Spanish to my parents is perfectly fine, but speaking it to my Puerto Rican relatives is a whole different story. Their vocabulary and pronunciation is so distinct to mine. Hand gestures were key components to use in order for them to understand me. This used to be frustrating, to the point that I would rather bypass the conversation. I was not always this excited. In fact, when I went to Puerto Rico with my family for the first time, I was mostly scared then excited.…

them. The Rough Riders, which also included Roosevelt’s leadership, were volunteers that went to Cuba to battle at El Caney and San Juan Hill. The American army did not stop there, and took over Puerto Rico with the command of Nelson A. Miles, before Spain signed the armistice. This gave to America Guam, Puerto Rico, the freedom of Cuba, and the Philippines, which were much more of a problem, in which McKinley decided to keep the Philippines making the U.S. seem more like an imperialistic…

As Cuban and Puerto Rican nationalists found, by the last half of the 19th century new world powers seized the nation-state model and tried to extend their borders and influence. The United States was an unstable new republic, and whatever was left of the Americas was controlled by the European empires. Imperial extension would not go unchallenged. But, by the 1900, the United States and Canada had enveloped the rest of the North American landmass, and a large portion of Latin America would…